O.J. Simpson Estate Accepts $58M Goldman Claim

The estate of O.J. Simpson has accepted a creditor claim for nearly $58 million from Fred Goldman, the father of Ron Goldman, one of two victims in the 1994 Los Angeles stabbings that led to a long-standing civil judgment against the former NFL star. The acceptance, filed on November 14 in Clark County District Court in Nevada, advances a wrongful death award that has accrued interest over three decades but remains largely unpaid.

Simpson, who died on April 10, 2024, at age 76 from prostate cancer, was acquitted of criminal charges in the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman during a highly publicized 1995 trial in Los Angeles. However, a 1997 civil jury found him liable for their wrongful deaths under a lower burden of proof, awarding the Goldman family $8.5 million in compensatory damages and an additional $25 million in punitive damages to be shared with the Brown family, for a total of $33.5 million. The victims were discovered stabbed to death outside Nicole Brown Simpson's Brentwood condominium on June 12, 1994; Ron Goldman, a 25-year-old waiter, had stopped by to return a pair of eyeglasses.

During Simpson's lifetime, he paid only a...