The executor of O.J. Simpson’s estate says he will try to prevent the payout of a $33.5 million judgment awarded to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman three years after their June 1994 murders in Brentwood.
“It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” attorney Malcolm LaVergne told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday. “Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”
The former football star and actor, who was acquitted of murder charges in the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend Goldman, a waiter, died April 10 in the Las Vegas area from prostate cancer.
Simpson was found liable for the deaths in a civil trial in Santa Monica in 1997 and ordered to pay the families $33.5 million. The family has said that Simpson was not cooperative in the years after the civil verdict, and much of that judgment is believed to have never been paid.
According to LaVergne, Simpson’s will, which was revealed Friday and names him the executor in charge of overseeing the estate, places Simpson’s property into a trust. He said its total value has not yet been determined.
LaVergne said Simpson was diagnosed with prostate cancer several years ago, and that it had gone into remission before recently returning.