In August 2007, a Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the book to the Goldman family to partially satisfy an unpaid civil judgment. The title of the book was expanded to If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer, and comments were added to the original manuscript by the Goldman family, Pablo Fenjves, and prominent investigative journalist Dominick Dunne.[2]
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She and lawyer Christopher Darden appeared on The Oprah Winfrey show today, along with members of the Goldman family today, talking about If I Did It, the O.J. Simpson book about the murder of ex-wife Nicole and friend Ron Goldman. Winfrey said she won't buy or read the book. She acknowledged that her show often boosts books, saying: "I don't want to be in the position to promote this book, because I, too, think it's despicable."
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After 'yuck,' the farce of O.J. Simpson's book
'If I Did It' reads like a self-absorbed counseling session.
When someone pulls on gloves to open a book, it's usually a priceless volume: a Jane Austen first edition or a signed galley proof of "Harry Potter."
I wanted to put on gloves to read "If I Did It" also, but for different reasons. The "yuck" factor in O.J. Simpson's "hypothetical" account of how he would have murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman is so high that the needle soars right off the scale.
The pages of "If I Did It" are certainly priceless -- to the Goldman family. They won the rights to the book, yanking it away from Simpson and the corporation he set up using his children's names, a scheme a federal bankruptcy judge called a "sham."
When Simpson owned the project, booksellers like Dutton's and Barnes & Noble refused to stock it. The Murdoch empire, ordinarily shameless, dropped the book and a planned TV interview. Now that the money is going to the Goldmans, to whittle away at their $38-million civil judgment against Simpson, Amazon and Barnes & Noble are taking orders.
Just looking at this book -- a red and black cover slashed with yellow police tape -- you can imagine the Goldmans almost gleefully turning Simpson's project on its head. The word "If" is in such small type that I fleetingly thought the Goldmans, who can now do any damn thing they please with the book, had changed its title. Simpson's name does not appear on the cover -- just the phrase "Confessions of the KILLER."
Other than the Goldmans' heartfelt, overwritten and under-edited introduction and Dominick Dunne's more stylish and ferociously Old Testament afterword ("I love the Goldman family and whatever they do to destroy Simpson, even turning his own book . . . against him has my full backing."), the book fits Karl Marx's useful observation about history: first act tragedy, second act farce.
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