Posted on 04/15/2024 11:00:28 AM PDT by thegagline
O.J. Simpson’s longtime lawyer and executor of his estate said Friday that he will fight to prevent the payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne, who had represented Simpson since 2009, told the Review-Journal in a phone interview that he specifically does not want the Goldman family seeing any money from Simpson’s estate.
“It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” LaVergne said. “Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”
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The will places all of Simpson’s property into a trust that was created in January, court filings show. LaVergne said the entirety of Simpson’s estate has not been tallied.
“I can’t make a predication right now as to what the value of the estate is,” LaVergne said. LaVergne said he was taken by surprise to be named the estate’s executor.
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In 1997, Simpson was found liable in a civil wrongful death lawsuit, and was ordered to pay millions in damages to the families of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.
LaVergne said that although the families have pushed for payment, there was never a court order forcing Simpson to pay out the civil judgment. He said his particular ire at the Goldman family came in part due to the events surrounding Simpson’s controversial planned book, titled “If I Did It.”
Goldman’s family, still pursuing the wrongful death judgment, won control of the manuscript and retitled the book “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,” according to the Associated Press.
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In a sane world, the attorney would never make public such sediments because they could get him kicked from the case.
“It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” LaVergne said. “Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”
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And I will do that by draining the estate with my lawyer fees, first.
“ I hate our legal system.”
We don’t have a “legal” system. We have systemized corruption.
A civil case that is basically retrying a criminal case SHOULD be considered double jeopardy.
It is an injustice to my mind that it currently is not. It is a further injustice that someone can be tried for a violation of civil rights tenuously associated with a crime of which they were found innocent.
The justice system isn't just.
This lawyer gives rats a bad name.
Don't judgements come before bequests?
KARMA, young man-—
KARMA
Due to the civil trial, I don’t think that’s going to fly
Malcolm.
Pension dies with OJ.
Sure he did——
AND I am the Captain of a Cruise Ship.
HOMESTEAD ONLY APPLIES TO THE PROPERTY YOU ACTUALLY LIVE IN/ON.
NOT to investment property
NOT to rentals of any kind
OJ moved to Dade County (Miami) after he lost the Goldman case (late 1990s), and he bought a home.
As I recall, Florida law did not allow a pension or a residence to be seized to pay a debt.
The Goldman family would need to challenge the Will in court.
I will guess their accrued legal fees already far exceed any money they were able to extract from Simpson when he was alive.
Sometimes - regardless of right and wrong - you have to admit that doing The Right Thing is just too expensive.
I like your analysis.
Two things though:
-The lawyers are was is driving this.
-OJ is/was black.
Not much left, if any.
Simpson probably had any assets he had put into Irrevocable Trusts years ago, nothing is in his name and with that those assets are protected and probably went immediately to his kids. So nothing for anyone to get, not even his creditors, all debts ended with his death and his kids are not responsible legally for any of them.
That is if you Probate a Will, if you have a Living Trust or an Irrevocable Trust that is all avoided.
If the Goldman’s filed a claim because the court order wasn’t fulfilled they’ll get their cash that’s what probate offices are for.
“And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”
And the probate office will send him to jail for it.
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