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

The longtime attorney for OJ Simpson has vowed to prevent money from his late client’s estate from being passed on to the families of murder victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown.

When Simpson died in Nevada on Wednesday at the age of 76, he still owed victims’ family members more than $100 million.

Simpson was found liable in a civil court for $33.5 million for the murders of Ron Goldman and ex-wife Nicole Simpson in 1997, with the Goldman family chasing the mounting debt 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 said he is determined that the Goldman family not see a penny from Simpson’s estate.

‘It is my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing. You specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as executor or personal representative to try to make sure they don’t get anything,’ LaVergne said. Las Vegas Review-Journal.

LaVergne notes that despite the families pushing to receive payments, no court order was ever made that would have forced Simpson to hand over the money after the civil judgment.

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

In response to public outrage that Simpson was profiting from the crimes, publisher HarperCollins canceled the book.

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

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

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

“We’ve had this problem for a long, long time,” he added. ‘It could be in a trust, it could be probate. It could all be gone.’

The lawyer added: ‘I’m in San Francisco. The lawyers we hired in Nevada, they worked with me… At this point, we’re just getting started.’

All of Simpson’s other property was put into a trust in January, although the full value of Simpson’s estate has not been determined.

“I can’t make a prediction right now as to what the value of the estate is,” said LaVergne, who also expressed surprise at being named as the estate’s executor.

‘I am appalled as to why he would name me as the personal representative or the executor, but he did and it is something I will take very seriously.’

Simpson is said to have lived on his NFL and private pensions.

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

As part of respoAs Simpson’s personal representative, LaVergne has been ordered by the will to pay for the cost of a ‘suitable monument’ at Simpson’s grave.

Fred Goldman, now 83, is still seething over Simpson’s ability to avoid paying his civil judgment and told 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,” said the bereaved father. ‘It is a further reminder of my son’s murder and a reminder of the many years we have missed Ron.

‘His death is a reminder that Ron and Nicole were murdered by him. I will not react to my thoughts about him dying. I have nothing to say about him. My answer will not be about OJ’s death, but about his loss of my son’s life. Thank you for calling. That’s all I have to say.’

The last legal action Goldman’s lawyers filed was in June 2022, claiming OJ still owed more than $96 million and had paid only $133,000 since 1997.

Since their 1997 convictions for the 1994 murders, the Goldmans have garnished Simpson’s income and sued him several times to recover money he earned from 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 to be ‘a little under $70 million’.

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

The 1992 lawsuits from his split with his murdered wife Nicole said 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 paying the Goldmans by filing bankruptcy in Florida, and his annual NFL pension of between $125,000 and $300,000 was protected from debt collection claims.

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

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

But now that the former NFL star is dead, the attorney said they will investigate the trusts and possibly file in Nevada probate court to chase the money.

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

‘You can be shocked, you can walk up to something and say there’s nothing there.’