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NY Publisher to Issue OJ Book

Posted Aug 13, 07 4:35 PM CDT in Business,  Arts & Living,  Gossip,  US    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – OJ Simpson’s book hypothetically describing the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and Ron Goldman will finally be published, Reuters reports. The Goldman family will “leave Simpson’s manuscript entirely intact, but they will also add key commentary,” a spokesman for their literary agent said. Under a court agreement reached last month, the Goldmans own all rights to the book.

Simpson, who owes the Goldmans  $33.5 million in damages, will receive no money from its publication. If I Did It includes a first-person account of how the 1994 murders might have been committed;  400,000 copies were printed by HarperCollins last fall, but withdrawn and destroyed. The name of the new publisher will be released tomorrow.

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In this image from video, O.J. Simpson sits on the Internet TV set at MN1.com with the monitor behind him which says "I did it" showing the cover of his book in Dallas, on Tuesday, July 31, 2007. (AP...   (Associated Press)
O.J. Simpson talks to spectators while watching the morning workouts for the 2007 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, May 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)   (Associated Press)
OJ Simpson mugs in this file photo.   (Getty Images)
O.J. with deceased ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, whose murder is the subject of Simpson's controversial book.   (Archive Photos)
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