OJ Simpson’s longtime attorney vows to ensure families of murder victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown get nothing from his estate after he died owing more than $100MILLION

OJ Simpson’s longtime lawyer has vowed to prevent money from his late client’s estate from reaching the families of murder victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown.

When Simpson died Wednesday at the age of 76, he still owed the victims’ relatives more than $100 million.

Simpson was found liable in civil court for $33.5 million for the 1997 murders of Ron Goldman and ex-wife Nicole Simpson, with the Goldman family chasing mounting debts ever since. The amount has now increased to $100 million with interest.

But attorney Malcolm LaVergne, who has represented Simpson since 2009 and is now the executor responsible for overseeing the estate, has stated that he is adamant that the Goldman family should not see a dime of Simpson’s estate.

“I hope the Goldmans get zero, nothing. Her specifically. And I will do everything I can in my capacity as executor or personal representative to try to make sure that they don’t get anything,” LaVergne told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

LaVergne notes that despite the families’ insistence on receiving payments, no court order was ever issued that would have forced Simpson to hand over the money after the civil judgment.

However, the Goldman family managed to get control of Simpson’s controversial book entitled ‘If I Did It’.

In response to public outcry that Simpson would profit from the crimes, publisher HarperCollins canceled the book.

A Florida bankruptcy court subsequently awarded rights to the manuscript to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment.

The family seems adamant that they will go after Simpson’s money.

“We have to start over here,” said debt collection attorney David Cook. ‘We’re going to work on that. There might be something out there.

“We have had this problem for a long time,” he added. “It could be in a trust, it could be an estate. It could all be gone.”

The lawyer added, “I’m in San Francisco. The attorneys we hired in Nevada worked with me… At this point, we are just getting started.”

All of Simpson’s other property was placed in a trust in January, although the full value of Simpson’s estate has not been added up.

“I cannot make a prediction at this time as to the value of the property,” said LaVergne, who also expressed surprise at being named as the executor of the estate.

“It’s beyond me why he would appoint me as personal representative or executor, but he has, and that’s something I’m going to take very seriously.”

Simpson would have lived off his NFL and private pensions.

Hundreds of valuables were seized as part of the civil jury award, with the former football star forced to auction off his Heisman Trophy, awarded each year to the most outstanding player in college football. It raised $230,000.

As part of the responseAs Simpson’s personal representative, LaVergne was instructed through the will to pay for the cost of a “suitable monument” at Simpson’s grave.

Fred Goldman, now 83, is still furious that Simpson has managed to avoid his civil verdict, telling DailyMail.com earlier this week that the focus should be on his son’s death, not OJ’s.

“All I have to say is this is a further reminder of the loss of my son Ron,” the grieving father said. “It’s a further reminder of my son’s murder and a reminder of the many years we missed Ron.

“His death is a reminder that Ron and Nicole were killed by him. I’m not going to comment on my thoughts about his death. I have nothing to say about him. My answer will not be about OJ’s death, but about the loss of my son’s life because of him. Thanks for calling. That’s all I have to say.’

The last legal filings made by Goldman’s lawyers were in June 2022, when they claimed OJ still owed more than $96 million and had paid just $133,000 since 1997.

Since their 1997 verdict for the 1994 murders, the Goldmans have seized Simpson’s income and sued him several times to recoup the money he earned for TV shows and his book If I Did It.

In his interview with DailyMail.com, Cook described how he renewed the judgment in 2015, placing it at $57 million.

Two years later, when OJ was released from a Nevada prison after serving nine years for a robbery and kidnapping conviction, he estimated the debt at “just under $70 million.”

And in March 2021, a Nevada garnishment case listed the amount owed by Simpson as $75,164,425.74.

According to 1992 court documents about his divorce from his murdered wife Nicole, his net worth at the time was $10.8 million, with a monthly income of $55,000.

But according to the Goldmans’ filings, he has only paid them $133,000 since they obtained their judgment against him.

OJ avoided payment from the Goldmans by declaring bankruptcy in Florida, and his annual NFL pension of between $125,000 and $300,000 was protected from collection claims.

He also received $42,000 a year in Social Security.

Cook and his colleagues previously investigated the assets of Simpson’s children, including alleged real estate purchases in Florida.

But now that the former NFL star has died, the attorney said they will take a closer look at trusts and possibly file a lawsuit in Nevada state court to pursue the money.

‘I have been doing this job for 47 years. We don’t know what’s in Nevada. We have had this problem for a long time,” he said.

“You can be shocked, walk on something and say there’s nothing there.”