O.J. Simpson getting $3.5 mil for detailed "hypothetical" confession?

By Tasha Robinson  |  October 19, 2006 | 10:29pm
Aux Features Newswire

According to an MSNBC gossip-column story, O.J. Simpson has reportedly been paid a $3.5 million dollar advance on a book tentatively called "If I Did It," in which he describes in detail how he killed his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman. The scenes in question are billed as hypothetical, but are supposedly "so detailed and so chillingly realistic that readers are left with little doubt as to what really happened."

According to the National Enquirer, which broke the story, the book is largely about O.J.'s relationship with Nicole, and about the dissolution of their marriage, but after an "almost half-hearted" disclaimer that the following scenes are speculative, he writes in detail about the murder as if he'd committed it.

Both stories note that Simpson cannot be prosecuted again for the murders regardless of what he writes, due to double-jeopardy laws. And the MSNBC story says "aims to keep any book money instead of paying it out in a civil suit judgment against him by spending it all quickly."

If any of this is true, the book's a guaranteed bestseller. But didn't we already "hypothetically" cover this territory in David Bender's book "The Confession Of O.J. Simpson"?

 
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