by Gina Serpe
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:25:42 PM PDT Sometimes, crime does pay. At least, it might for the survivors of one bygone victim.
The family of the late Ron Goldman, which has spent the better part of a decade trying to collect its share of a $33.5 million wrongful-death award from O.J. Simpson's civil trial, is seeking to confiscate more of the former footballer's assetsspecifically the ones Simpson is alleged to have stolen last weekto help satisfy the judgment.
David Cook, an attorney for Fred Goldman, Ron's father, filed a turnover request in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday morning, seeking to obtain ownership rights to the bounty of sports memorabilia.
Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg gave Goldman one week to come up with a list of the stuff Simpson supposedly stole; the judge plans to individually rule on each item. A follow-up hearing on the matter is tentatively slated for next Tuesday, though it may take place even sooner depending on when Goldman submits his list.
The judge has already sided in favor of the Goldmans to collect on Simpson's gold Rolex Submariner watch, valued between $5,000 and $10,000, allowing attorneys for the family to retrieve the watch from Las Vegas and get it appraised.
Whatever Rosenberg's ruling on the Vegas cache, Simpson has unwittingly helped his longtime nemeses.
"The event has aided the Goldmans in some bizarre way, because it will probably sell another 300,000 copies of [
If I Did It]," Cook said outside the courtroom.
Just five days in release, the book is already a bestseller, having hit the number two spot on Amazon.com and on Barnes & Noble's Website, with Beaufort Books publishing an additional 50,000 copies of the hypothetical confession. more at link:
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