
Book Review: If I Did It - Confessions Of The Killer By The Goldm
an F
amily
Yes folks, it’s the long
aw
aited OJ Simpson confession book! Except th
at in OJ’s mind it w
as
anything but, he cl
aims it is
a fiction
al
account of how we would h
ave done it, if he h
ad done it! I h
ave lots of problems with this book, not le
ast of which is wh
at w
as going through his sick
and twisted mind to w
ant to write the book in the first pl
ace. If you
are innocent this book m
akes no sense.
And if you
are guilty, it m
akes even less sense, unless you
are trying to confess
and cle
ar the
air. But he pl
ainly s
ays, time
and time
ag
ain th
at it is fiction.
The good news is th
at through the intervention of Fred
and Kim Goldm
an OJ Simpson will not see one dime of profits from its s
ale. The not so good news is th
at OJ did m
an
age to get the
almost $700,000 in
adv
ances before the project bec
ame public.
Re
ally it is the story behind the book th
at m
akes better re
ading th
an the book itself. When the Goldm
an f
amily he
ard th
at OJ Simpson w
as h
aving
a book written they moved into high ge
ar to prevent its public
ation
and his
ability to profit from the misery. In the 13 ye
ars following the guilty verdict Simpson h
as p
aid ex
actly nothing of the money
aw
arded to the Goldm
an’s. He reloc
ated to Florid
a to
avoid the pesky C
aliforni
an judgment,
and spends
a h
appy life pl
aying
golf and who knows wh
at else. The
aw
ard w
as somewhere in the 18 million doll
ar r
ange, with interest th
at now
amount h
as more th
an doubled, one report puts it
at 39 million doll
ars.