OJ Simpson estate accepts $58M claim from Goldmans but payment would be a fraction

Ron Goldman’s father is about to get some money from OJ Simpson, although it won’t be the millions awarded by a jury decades ago when the late football and movie star was found responsible for the young man’s fatal shooting.

Simpson’s estate accepted a $58 million claim from Fred Goldman, an amount that far exceeds his assets.

“It won’t be $58 million plus interest, but it will be a voluntary payment. That’s the point,” executor Malcolm LaVergne said Monday.

LaVergne said he still hopes to round up his total assets from $500,000 to $1 million.

Simpson died of prostate cancer in 2024 at the age of 76. He was found not guilty of the stabbing murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman, her friend, in Los Angeles in 1994.

But Simpson was brought to trial again and found responsible for the deaths in a separate civil case. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million to the families, a sum that increased with interest.

Fred Goldman hounded Simpson for years and maintained that he never paid anything voluntarily.

LaVergne agreed to a claim of $58 million, according to a court document filed Friday in Clark County, Nevada, but not $117 million, the requested figure. Accepting a claim means there will be no tedious litigation over it.

Fred Goldman’s attorney, Michaelle Rafferty, said the estate accepted the claim as valid but “does not constitute payment.”

“We will continue to closely monitor the probate process,” she said in an email.

Simpson was living in a gated golf course community in Las Vegas after serving nine years in prison for armed robbery, kidnapping and assault, all related to a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers in a hotel room. He generally refused to discuss his finances, except to say that he lived off his pension.