O.J. Simpson's 'If I Did It' to be published

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Originally Posted by irishgrl

ok, you're not getting it. the public is NOT paying OJ's fine, what is happening is that OJ is NOT getting the royalties that he hoped to get from publishing this tripe. He is plainly hurting financially, and this is a huge slap in his face IMO if the Goldmans get the $$$ and he doesnt.

Your argument is illogical because OJ was never going to get the royalties. Under your scenario, if he did, he would pay tax on them and then the court would immediately seize them to pay off the civil judgement

I remember reading that he had set up a trust for his kids that would accept all rev. from the sale of the book. He would have no access to that money other than to request the trustee spend it for school and the like. I could be wrong though.

In any event, the court correctly ruled that this book was OJ's asset and OJ cannot distrute that asset without the permission of the court, which has a lien on all of his allowable assets.