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New Publisher Bites on O.J. Book

Tue., Aug. 14, 2007 4:30 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

So much for turning the page.

A literary agent working on behalf of Ron Goldman's family said Monday that she has found a publisher for O.J. Simpson's once scuttled hypothetical memoir, If I Did It, which contains passages describing how the ex-NFL star would have gone about killing Goldman and his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, if he had been the one to commit the double murder.

The name of the New York publishing house that has taken on the theoretically unenviable project, as well as other details, will be announced Wednesday, Martin Literary Management spokesman Michael Wright said on behalf of the Goldmans' agent, Sharlene Martin.

A Florida bankruptcy judge awarded the rights to the book to the Goldmans last month after finding that Simpson had set up a shell corporation to keep his $630,000 advance from HarperCollins away from the family.

The Goldmans are responsible for the costs of getting the book out there, but will be entitled to 90 percent of any proceeds, with the remaining 10 percent being split among the Brown family and the bankruptcy trustee that took charge of Simpson's bogus enterprise, Lorraine Brooke Associates. The Goldmans will also contribute part of their end to the Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice.

Meanwhile, the Browns are already up in arms over the project, with Nicole's sister, Denise Brown, calling for a boycott.

On Tuesday, Brown said in a statement that she was "shocked and horrified" to learn that If I Did It had found a publisher.

She cannot bear that her sister's two children "will have to be subjected to this step by step manual on how their mother and her friend Ron were murdered," Brown said.

After they won the book rights, the Goldmans' attorney said they were planning to change the name of the ghostwritten tome to Confessions of a Double Murderer and market it as a confessional.

"The family and publisher have pledged to leave Simpson's manuscript entirely intact, but they will also add key commentary," Wright said in a statement. "The Goldmans, the publisher and Sharlene Martin will all contribute portions of sales proceeds to the Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice."

Earlier this month, Simpson claimed in a streamed online interview that he only agreed to include one chapter about the murders after his original publisher, Judith Regan, swore that it would be labeled as purely hypothetical.

"I find it sort of hypocritical that they talked everybody in America to boycott the book: It was 'immoral,' it was 'blood money,''" he said, referring to the Goldmans' acquisition of the publishing rights. "But we now see it wasn't 'blood money' if they got the money."

This year, in addition to his book dough, the Goldmans have also been awarded all of Simpson's future residuals from past TV and movie appearances and any proceeds the Heisman Trophy winner may have received from the new video game All-Pro Football 2K8, which features his likeness.

(Originally published Monday, Aug. 13, 2007 at 5:16 p.m. PT)