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O.J. Simpson never paid the Goldmans the millions he owed them. Can they finally collect?



Fred Goldman, center, and his wife, Patti, leave a courthouse in Santa Monica in 1997 after a jury found football star O.J. Simpson guilty in a civil trial involving the slaying of Goldman’s son, Ronald. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

By Hannah Fry
Staff Writer
April 17, 2024 3 AM PT

For the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, it has been nearly three decades of court fights, painstaking forensic accounting, detective work and, ultimately, frustration.

The goal: Make O.J. Simpson pay.

A civil court jury in 1997 found Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend and ordered the former football star to pay their families more than $33 million.

They have collected only a tiny fraction of the judgment, which their attorney claims has now ballooned to more than $100 million because of interest.

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