HOLLYWOOD - O.J. Simpson has accused the family of murder victim Ron Goldman of seeking profit from the star's controversial book If I Did It.
On Monday, a federal judge in Miami approved the Goldman's settlement with a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee, giving them the rights to the former football star's controversial book--in which he hypothetically places himself at the scene of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Goldman in 1994.
Lawyers for the Goldmans reveal they plan to use publishing, film or TV deals from the book to help satisfy a $33.5 million wrongful death judgment won by the family against Simpson in 1997.
But Simpson has branded the move "hypocritical."
He says, "I find it sort of hypocritical that they told everybody in America to boycott the book: It was 'immoral,' it was 'blood money.' But we now see it wasn't 'blood money' if they got the money."
Meanwhile, Simpson reveals the book was composed by a ghost author and that he played a passive role in "hypothetically" describing the killings.
He says, "Because I didn't do it... I will not justify the evidence they had.
"We got to that chapter, and I said, 'Hey, I can't participate in that.'
"I read what he wrote, and I saw all of these major holes, all of these impossible things.
"All of these other parts of the book I would correct, but I told myself, 'If I correct this, there are going to be people out there that say, 'Oh, look how accurate this is,' right?"
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