OJ Simpson’s estate accepted a nearly $58 million settlement a judge gave to Ron Goldman’s father in a wrongful death civil judgement, TMZ and The Daily Mail reported. TMZ wrote that Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s estate executor, filed court documents last week accepting the claim by Fred Goldman in the “amount of $57,997,858.12 (U.S.), plus judgment interest on the approved amount.”
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Simpson, a former football player, was acquitted in 1995 of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, after an eight-month trial that garnered nationwide attention. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found dead in the front courtyard of her condominium in Brentwood, California.
Lavergne told TMZ the $58 million approved by the estate was negotiated with Goldman, and Simpson’s estate plans to pay out as much of it as it can. The estate has been auctioning off items. Lavergne claimed some of them have been stolen, and he’s working with lawyers to regain possession of them.
The civil case was filed in California, but Simpson lived in Las Vegas from 2017 until he died in 2024. Court records show that Fred Goldman filed a foreign judgement against Simpson in February 2021 in Nevada, the Daily Mail wrote, which made the case move states.
Although Fred Goldman initially asked for more than $117 million, he asked for $58 million in Nevada. Last week, Lavergne filed a document telling the Nevada Probate Court about the estate’s intention to pay that amount, which he said could actually come out to $70 million to $80 million with interest. That interest started accumulating when the claim came to Nevada. It still has to be negotiated.
In addition, TMZ reported Lavergne’s going to ask the court to award Goldman a fee for administrative costs for advising him on how to run the estate.
