O.J. Simpson Died $114M in Debt to Ron Goldman’s Family — and Legal Battle Looms, Attorney Says

Simpson owed Goldman and Brown's families $33.5 million after he was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit in 1997

An attorney for Ron Goldman’s father claims that O.J. Simpson, who was famously and controversially acquitted of murdering Ron and Nicole Brown Simpson, owed the Goldman family more than $100 million prior to his death.

Simpson, who died at the age of 76 on April 10 following a cancer diagnosis, had been ordered to pay the Goldman and Brown families $33.5 million after he was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit in 1997.

However, David Cook, who represents Ron’s father, Fred Goldman, told PEOPLE that their family has not seen that money owed — and it has since grown due to interest.

"He died without penance,” Cook said of Simpson. “He did not want to give a dime, a nickel to Fred, never, anything, never.”

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Cook said they renewed the court judgment in 2022. Legal filings from that year reportedly showed that Simpson had only paid the family $133,000 since the 1997 trial, according to the New York Post and Bleacher Report.

“He [still] owes on the current status of the judgment,” Cook told PEOPLE. He noted that due to Simpson’s failure to pay the family, the money owed with interest has blown up to over $114 million as of this year.

He said that previous lawyers from the family had sought to obtain pensions that Simpson received from the NFL, but they “went nowhere with it.” Lawyers also potentially looked at obtaining the money from Simpson’s trusts as well, but they kept hitting a wall.

The family did have a small win in court, obtaining the rights to a book Simpson had been writing called If I Did It and made some money from the sales of that.

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Despite previous failings, Cook said the family is looking at hiring attorneys in Nevada, Florida and California to “determine what can be done." He said the first step is figuring out where Simpson’s money will go after his death and figuring out how much money he is passing on.

"We need to get a lawyer or a number of lawyers who deal with this, very smart people to determine who it is or who it would be, and [start] taking depositions from people and/or finding out who they are and what information we need,” he explained. “It's a big deal.”

Cook added that it all depends on what “Fred wants to do” next.

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Following the news of Simpson’s death, Fred told PEOPLE that it was a “reminder” of his loss.

“This is just a reminder for us of how long Ron has been gone, how long we have missed him and nothing more than that,” he said. “That is the only thing that is important today. It is the pain from then until now. There is nothing today that is more important than the loss of my son and the loss of Nicole. Nothing is more important than that.”

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