Oprah bashes O.J. Simpson Book 'If I Did It'

O. J. Simpson, in which he puts forth a hypothetical description of the murders for which he was acquitted in a 1995 criminal trial, but found financially liable for in a civil wrongful death trial. Although the original release was canceled in November of 2006, by June 2007 copies of the book had leaked online

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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Oprah airs O.J. book discussion

"This book is hideous to read," says Marcia Clark (with blonde hair), the prosecuting attorney in the O.J. Simpson case (click photo to enlarge). But she hopes that it may help abused women who read it.

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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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Patt Morrison:

After 'yuck,' the farce of O.J. Simpson's book

'If I Did It' reads like a self-absorbed counseling session.

September 14, 2007

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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