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Get the full story in O.J. Simpson’s own words!
On July 31, 2007 Federal Court Judge A. Jay Cristol awarded the Goldman family the rights to�If I Did It.�Thus began one of the strangest odysseys in publishing history.
The book, called “one of the most chilling things I have ever read” by Barbara Walters, skyrocketed up bestseller lists across the country in fall 2007 as the national media relentlessly covered O.J. Simpson’s dramatic Las Vegas arrest for armed robbery and kidnapping.
Originally written by O.J. Simpson, this edition includes essays by the Goldmans and a member of the Goldman family legal team that reveal the fascinating story behind the bankruptcy case, the book’s publication and the looming court proceedings, that would eventually lead to his conviction.
In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately acquitted of criminal charges. The victims' families brought a civil case against Simpson, which found him liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book.
The Goldman family views the book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is O.J. Simpson's original manuscript, approved by him, with up to 14,000 words of additional key commentary.
- Sales Rank: #26611 in eBooks
- Published on: 2008-04-01
- Released on: 2008-04-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
With an audacity that vilifies O.J. Simpson more than any other author could, Simpson himself provides a fictional tell-all account of the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown. Simpson seems to be more concerned about how the press poorly portrayed the facts—not about his murderous acts but of his personal life and relationship with Nicole. When he's not lamenting about how he is misunderstood, he's playing arm-chair therapist for Nicole (claiming she was involved with drugs, constantly erratic and still hopelessly longing for him). Simpson insists it was Nicole's actions that ultimately forced him to murder her. With an exclusive commentary read by Kim Goldman (Ron Goldman's sister), an account of writing the book with Simpson by ghostwriter Pablo F. Fenjves and an afterword by Dominick Dunne, listeners get an interesting balancing act of interests and motives for the publication of this story. G. Valmont Thomas eerily embraces Simpson's sound and speech patterns, making the audiobook more disturbing than the book. Hearing Simpson's words at his most enraged, listeners will be impressed and possibly frightened with how well Thomas delivers this first-person narrative. A Beaufort Books hardcover. (Nov.)
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Review
“It’s as if Simpson is sitting across from the�reader laying out his side of the story,�one-on-one, no reporters or gossip columnists�or Court TV vultures sticking in their beaks.”
(Vanity Fair)“A confession? Judge for yourself. My feeling?�You bet it is. The case is now officially closed.�This appalling but mesmerizing book does it"
(The Buffalo News) About the Author
The Goldman family views this book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is the original manuscript approved by O.J. Simpson, with additional insight from the Goldman Family, Pablo F. Fenjves, and Dominick Dunne.
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641 of 728 people found the following review helpful.
The Ghostwriter Put One Over on Simpson!
By Swanny58
Once, in being questioned about some comment in his very first autobiography. Simpson said that he had never read the book. The same seems to be true here. His ghostwriter gave him away, and Simpson either didn't read the book, didn't understand the book, or had already signed away his rights to make changes to the text.
First, he gives himself an additional motive for the murder. Not jealousy, but the irrestible urge to silence a whining bipolar woman whom he thought was a bad influence on his kids. Driven-to-the-wall nuts like many a murderer before him.
Second, as Sam Goldwyn would say, the book is "chock full of omissions". Simpson presents the murders as spontaneous, and gives a reason for happening to have gloves and a cap in his car. He does not explain why he just happened to be wearing black dress socks and thousand-dollar teal shoes with a blue track suit. In reality, of course, he wore dark socks to minimize the show of blood, and wore a pair of shoes he had decided he disliked and had not often been seen in. (But he had worn them at least once, since a picture of him wearing them had been published in a magazine 6 months before the murders.)
He says that he talked with a fan at the airport about his Hall of Fame ring, and there was no cut on his ring finger. THEN he reproduces his first police interview in which he admits he cut his finger in L.A. and the cut opened up again in Chicago! Mr. Simpson, please read the books you "write"!
He invents an accomplice called Charlie, a casual acquaintance who just drops in on a first visit to tell him Nicole was doing immoral things. He and Charlie rush off to Nicole's house and Simpson does the deed while Charlie stands guard. This Charlie never comes forward and leaves no trace at the scene.
Charlie also takes Simpson's bloody clothes right at the crime scene and ditches them, although when limo driver Alan Park saw Simpson run into his house, Park did not mention that the man was in his underwear.
Simpson unwittingly explains what many people have wondered about: how he could take on two people. His malice, element of surprise, physical strength, probable high on crystal meth, and weapon were enough, but he tells us he knocked out Nicole first, killed Ron, then finished off Nicole. Thank you, Mr. Simpson.
He claims to have been blacked out or amnesiac about the actual murder. Some people have ridiculed this, but according to Connie Fletcher's WHAT COPS KNOW, it's a normal reaction for an amateur murderer, who is generally traumatized by what he has done. In other words, the blackout story makes the notion that he killed them MORE, not less, convincing.
In case you're wondering, he says he never once hit Nicole. Not ever.
He talks about his freeway ride, but fails to mention the many thousands of bucks and the false beard he was carrying.
He forgets about apologizing to Nicole's corpse at the wake.
He insists that he was emotionally wholly through with Nicole and was willing to talk to her ONLY about the kids, yet tells her mother, "I loved her too much [to have killed her]." Her death, more than his fall from grace, drives him to consider suicide. He gives up the notion of suicide abruptly when he hears Dan Rather say that the cops had been out to Simpson's place five or six times on domestic abuse calls. He is so angered by this lie that he peps up and vows to fight.
Read enough? The book is an interesting curiosity, and sales will finally benefit the right people. Go ahead.
194 of 219 people found the following review helpful.
A Must Read for Anyone Interested in the Case
By Zeldock
Like many people, I bought "If I Did It" because I support the Goldman family's efforts to get some sort of justice. The man who murdered Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown went free. But, by being awarded the "If I Did It" manuscript in a bankruptcy case involving Simpson's corporation, the Goldmans have finally been able to collect, to a small extent, on the judgment they were awarded in Simpson's civil trial. The more money the Goldmans make on this book, the more money they will have "taken" from Simpson.
The book begins with an introduction in which "the Goldman Family" explain how they came to be awarded the rights to "If I Did It" by the bankruptcy court and why they decided to publish it. As they point out, they (like me) would much rather see Simpson in jail, serving the life sentence he should have received. But since that is now impossible, they must settle for the next best thing -- doing whatever is legally permissible to punish Simpson by seizing his assets.
The book's ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, also provides an introduction, where he describes his involvement in the book project and his interviews of Simpson. Fenjves's intro actually contained what was, for me, the most chilling part of the book: When Simpson's narrative reached the moment of the actual murders, he looked at Fenjves and said, "I don't know what the hell you want from me . . . I'm not going to tell you that I sliced my ex-wife's neck and watched her eyes roll up into her head." Somehow, that strikes me as more of a confession than anything else in the book.
The "If I Did It" memoir itself takes up 196 pages. The first five chapters -- 115 pages -- deal with Simpson's relationship with Nicole Brown: how they met and dated, how she finally persuaded him to marry her, their good years, their separation, and their failed attempt at a reconciliation. This part of the book is somewhat dull, but it does serve to flesh out a motive for murder. It becomes apparent that Simpson resented Nicole for pestering him, coming between him and their two children, and making it difficult for him to have a serious relationship with Paula Barbieri. As Simpson puts it at one point (p. 120), "[I]t seemed like every day it took a little more energy, and Nicole was sapping a lot of my goddamn energy."
Chapters 6, 7, and 8 (about 80 pages) are what will hold the most interest for most readers. Here, Simpson describes the night of the murders, the first interrogation by police, and the freeway "chase" when he threatened to kill himself. The description of the murders -- which is presented as "hypothetical" (p. 123) -- includes a mysterious companion referred to as "Charlie." Fenjves's theory, explained in his intro, is that Charlie was invented by Simpson to enable him to gain some psychological distance when recounting the crime. The murder description also includes a blackout that some reviewers have complained about. But it's not a big deal: all the blackout covers are the stabbings themselves; it does not keep us from learning how Simpson went to Nicole's home, what he saw and said there, and how he and "Charlie" made their getaway.
The book concludes with a brief afterword by Dominick Dunne, in which he talks mainly about how he came to know the Goldmans during Simpson's criminal trial.
"If I Did It" is probably unique in the history of crime and publishing. It gives us the best view we're probably ever going to get into Simpson's mind and the chain of thoughts and emotions that led to the murders. For the first time, I feel that I really understand the case.
61 of 66 people found the following review helpful.
No "IF" about it: OJ did it
By Steve Reina
Okay. First things first.
When you buy or borrow this book, go to page 116 which is where chapter 6 begins because that's the most interesting part of the book.
It's where OJ Simpson says how Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed, "if" he, OJ Simpson, did it.
The chapters leading up to page 116 are nothing more than Simpson's self serving slant on his relationship with Nicole. Those that follow chapter 6 are nothing more than a continuation of that slant, viz: the same BS story we've been hearing from his attorneys since he murdered these two people.
But first, a reality check.
Here are the facts of the Simpson case that you will not learn in this book.
The case of California v. OJ Simpson started in 1994 when two bodies were discovered at the residence of Nicole Brown Simpson. Found at the scene were a stocking cap, a left handed glove and several drops of blood that didn't match either Nicole Brown Simpson or the other victim Ron Goldman.
However, the blood did match to OJ Simpson. The stocking cap had nine hairs from OJ Simpson. And significantly, clothing worn by Goldman had fibers matching that of clothing worn by OJ Simpson himself that night.
Just a few miles away, OJ Simpson's Bronco was oddly parked outside his residence with blood evidence both inside and outside the vehicle connecting it to the crime scene. A blood trail existed between the Bronco and OJ Simspon's residence and the right handed mate to the left handed glove was found outside OJ Simpson's residence with blood traces from OJ Simpson and his victims.
Significantly a limo driver tasked to take OJ Simpson to a red eye flight was at his residence just as the murders were taking place and was unable to make contact with OJ Simpson. But he did see a large African American male futively entering OJ Simpson's residence just prior to when he finally made contact...a time that was clearly after the murders had taken place.
In other words, OJ Simpson was connected with mulitple pieces of incriminating evidence at both the crime scene and his residence AND he had no alibi.
That this guy was found not guilty was a travesty of justice just as the Rodney King not guilty verdicts that preceded it were also a travesty of justice.
Though no one would dispute that two wrongs can't make right, this book was created on the premise that maybe wrongs can at least make a buck.
As we learn in an afterward, the Goldman family was awarded this book so that OJ Simpson couldn't make money off it but hopefully they could at least have some hope of satisfying the civil judgment they were awarded against Simpson in connection with Goldman's death.
SPOILER ALERT: If you want to learn about the book from the book, stop reading here.
If you're still with me, then I guess you don't mind hearing my slant.
Okay. Here goes:
Starting with chapter 6, Simpson says that "if" he did it, he would have been alerted by someone named "Charlie" to immoral conduct on the part of his ex wife. Enraged by what he heard, Simpson made for his ex wife's residence in time to see her putting out candles and dressing sexy, maybe in preparation to "put out" something more. Even more enraged, he was interrupted by the arrival of Ron Goldman.
Though the critical moments of the knifing are left to the reader's imagination, Simpson is clear that it was he, and not this supposed "Charlie" (who I thought was an alter ego anyway since he wasn't mentioned anywhere in the rest of the book) who actually knifed both Nicole and Ron to death.
Leading up to chapter 6 only supports the view that Nicole was a woman who could have inspired such an insane act on Simpson's part. One reason for this is because he admitted to having previously abused her. (Significantly, 90 percent of women killed by their spouses or boyfriends had a prior domestic violence history such as existed here between Nicole and her ex husband OJ Simpson.) Another reason is because of the obviously prurient way in which Simpson viewed her. His attraction to her was mainly physical. When he met her, she was 18 and in her prime and possessed of attributes that made him only look at her as an object. What's more the interaction between them was juvenile, spiked with numerous conflicts over matters Simpson himself admitted were trivial.
Perhaps most important of all though were the circumstances of the murders themselves. OJ Simpson was at his ex wife's house just days following their final break up. (The two had attempted a one reconciliation just prior to Nicole's death.) She was dressed in a revealing outfit, had put out candles, and was even in the process of receiving as a guest a young attractive man, Goldman. Both Nicole and Ron were knifed numerous times and nothing was stolen from the residence. If the murder scene itself didn't indicate a killing by an ex lover, nothing would.
As I indicated at the beginning of this review, I consider the final pages following chapter 6 to be nothing other than a re-hash of BS we've all aready heard.
For his part, OJ Simpson may never give us anything more honest than the "if" I did it he gives in this book.
But for those who listen to the facts, they need no such admission.
They know there's no "if" about it.
OJ Simpson did it.
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