OJ Simpson’s estate is fighting against paying the family of the late Ron Goldman money from a wrongful death suit after the former football star died from cancer Wednesday.
On Friday, the former Buffalo Bills player’s will was filed in a Las Vegas court and the documents reportedly named his attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, as the executor in charge of overseeing the estate, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” the lawyer, who had represented Simpson since 2009, told the outlet via a phone interview.
“Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”
LaVergne said he was shocked to find out that he was named the executor of Simpson’s estate, which he claimed to not know the current value of.
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“I am flummoxed as to why he would name me as the personal representative or the executor, but he did,” he said. “And it’s something I’m going to take very seriously.”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the will states LaVergne is responsible for paying for a “suitable monument” for Simpson’s grave.
Additionally, the outlet reported the docs stated that the late Heisman Trophy winner wanted the will to “be administered as set forth herein without litigation or dispute of any kind” and that any beneficiary, heir “or any other person” who sought to establish a claim on the will “or attack, oppose or seek to set aside the administration of this Will, have this Will declared null, void or diminish, or to defeat any change any part of the provisions of this will,” will only “receive, free of trust, one dollar ($1.00) and no more in lieu of any claimed interest in this will or its assets.”
OJ was accused of fatally stabbing his second ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Goldman in June 1994 in Los Angeles.
After a highly publicized trial, the famed athlete was acquitted of the murders, however in 1997, OJ was found liable in a civil wrongful death lawsuit and was ordered to pay the families of Nicole and Goldman millions.
OJ’s family announced Thursday that he passed away at age 76 after succumbing to a battle with prostate cancer.
The families of Goldman and Nicole never received the full amount of money, as Page Six exclusively reported that he would run a substantial ring of all-cash business dealings.
“He would sign anything except anything that had to do with the trial or murder,” we were told. “The stipulation was always that he had to be paid in cash.”
Page Six was told that OJ had only paid $123,000 of the $33.5 million balance.
“With being paid everything in cash, there was no way to document how much money he had access to,” a source told us.
