O.J. Simpson’s death may up odds of victims’ families collecting huge judgment
Updated on: April 12, 2024 / 5:53 AM EDT / CBS/AP How will O.J. Simpson be remembered? How will O.J. Simpson be remembered? 04:29 Los Angeles — O.J. Simpson died Thursday without having paid the lion’s share of the $33.5 million judgment a California civil jury awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Acquitted at a criminal trial, Simpson was found liable by jurors in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit. The public is now likely to get a closer look Simpson’s finances, and the families are likely to have a better shot at collecting — if there’s anything to collect. David Cook, an attorney who’s been seeking to collect the civil judgment for Goldman’s family since 2008, said Simpson “died without penance. We don’t know what he has, where it is or who is in control. We will pick up where we are and keep going with it.” Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in undated photos. CBS News How the next few months may play out Whether or not he left behind a will, and whatever