Simpson’s lawyer Malcolm LaVergne pledges that no money from property will plod toward repaying wrongful demise judgment, which now totals over $100 million
The executor named in O.J. Simpson’s will has pledged to get sure that the family of Ron Goldman — who were still owed over $100 million from Simpson following a wrongful demise judgment — receives “zero, nothing” from Simpson’s property.
Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s lawyer, told the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal that he became as soon as “flummoxed” that the football superstar grew to change into accused murderer named him his “interior most manual or the executor” in a will drawn up earlier this year amid Simpson’s cancer battle, but stated he would take the job as executor “very severely.”
That it sounds as if entails battling the Goldman family from seeing any of the money Simpson has owed them since 1997, when a civil trial jury awarded the Goldmans $33.5 million, with pastime — and with Simpson only paying a tiny piece of the penalty, the judgment owed has ballooned to over $100 million.
Following Simpson’s demise, an attorney for the Goldmans stated the family would ogle the challenge with attorneys and make a selection whether or not to pursue the money owed from Simpson’s property, something LaVergne has promised he will fight at all costs.
“It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” LaVergne told the Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal. “Them specifically. And I will attain every thing in my ability as the executor or interior most manual to take a peep at and get sure they get nothing.”
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As Simpson’s closing will became as soon as only filed on Friday, LaVergne stated he “can’t get a predication unprejudiced now as to what the worth of the property is.” The lawyer also revealed that Simpson became as soon as first diagnosed with prostate cancer “several years previously,” and though it went into remission, the cancer returned in newest months sooner than Simpson died in hospice care at his Las Vegas-space ranch this week.
LaVergne added that Simpson could per chance well be cremated in the near future, and that funeral preparations were still pending.