O.J. Simpson’s estate agreed to pay nearly $58 million to Ron Goldman’s father, decades after the former NFL star was acquitted of murdering him and Simpson’s ex-wife.
Fred Goldman filed a creditor claim in July 2024, originally seeking just over $117 million, after a civil jury found Simpson liable for the June 1994 deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, and ordered him to pay millions of dollars in damages.
The money was never fully paid before his death last year from cancer.
The Hall of Famer was criminally charged with murder in 1994, but was acquitted in a shocking televised trial.
O.J. Simpson during a parole hearing in Lovelock, Nev., in 2017Jason Bean / Pool via Bloomberg via Getty Images
Brown Simpson and Goldman, who were friends, were found stabbed and slashed dozens of times outside her Los Angeles home. Goldman had been returning sunglasses that Brown Simpson’s mother had left at a restaurant where he worked when he was killed, authorities said.
In court documents filed Friday in a Clark County, Nevada, district court, Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s estate executor, agreed to pay Goldman but said the original amount did “not appear to be as accurate as possible based on simple judgment interest calculations.”
Nicole Brown Simpson; Ron Goldman.AP file
Michaelle Rafferty, Fred Goldman’s attorney, said LaVergne’s acceptance of the claim was a “positive acknowledgement of the debt.”
“It does not constitute payment. This acceptance allows the administration of the claim to move forward in probate. We will continue to monitor the probate process as it progresses,” he said in a statement.
LaVergne told NBC News that the value of Simpson’s estate is between $500,000 and $1 million. He said the estate will pay Goldman what they can after administrative expenses and the IRS is paid. At the time of Simpson’s death, he owed money to the IRS.
Lindsay Good and Austin Mullen contributed.
