O.J. Simpson’s estate has accepted a $58 million claim from the father of Ron Goldman, decades after a jury said the football star was liable for the man’s fatal stabbing.
Ron Goldman was murdered alongside his friend, Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Simpson Brown in 1994. Though Simpson was acquitted, a 1997 jury found him liable in the wrongful death lawsuit and ordered him to pay the Brown and Goldman families $33.5 million.
Over the years, added interest tacked on an additional $24 million making the new total $58 million.
“It won’t be $58 million plus interest, but it will be a voluntary payment. That’s the point,” the estate’s executor, Malcolm LaVergne, said Monday.
LaVergne accepted the claim of $58 million, according to a court document filed Friday in Clark County, Nevada, but not $117 million, the figure that was sought. Accepting a claim signals there won’t be any time-consuming litigation over it.
Fred Goldman reportedly hounded Simpson for years and contended that he never willingly paid anything. His attorney, Michaelle Rafferty, said the estate has accepted the claim as valid but “it does not constitute payment.”
“We will continue to closely monitor the probate proceedings,” she said in an email.
The next court hearing is scheduled for January, according to KLAS.
Simpson died in April 2024 at 76 to prostate cancer which metastasized to his bones.