View Full Version : What is WRONG with the Goldman family?
bigleague
9.18.07, 9:39 PM
Fine, I get that they want O.J. Simpson to live life as a pauper and to suffer all the remaining days of his life. Go for it.
But this grabby grabby mine mine mine I get everything that he does selfishness is making me very angry.
Their son was not the only person murdered that night. Whether or not O.J. did it, they did get some sort of civil suit against him. So, they don't give a flying rat's butt about Nicole or her family or worst of all the children? What the frick do they need all that money for? Whatever they've gotten so far.
Is there any setting up a fund for those children? Or a co-fund of some sort in Nicole's name? Or do they just not care?
They are as bad as they think O.J. is if they just want want want want. Now they are trying to get a court order to seize the O.J. sports memorabilia he has been arrested and charged with trying to steal. Sooooooo this gives them carte blanche to claim it WHY? It was his any longer! He says that it was stolen from him. But it isn't his, he does not have ownership and if the person who was trying to originally sell it in that Las Vegas hotel can prove that he owns it then the Goldmans have no right to try to take it. Right now it's evidence and when this is over it will go back to it's owner to be sold. Not the Goldmans to just punish O.J., Nicole, her family and her children and the person who owned that memorabilia.
I feel deeply for their tragic and heinous loss, but for heaven's sake start acting like adults already. I'm starting to lose any sympathy for them. It's turning into a bigger cartoon because of them now. :redfacey:
Their hatred for OJ and all things OJ is understandable. He murdered their loved one and walked away scott free. A court ordered OJ to pay them money and he has tried every trick in the book to get out of his responsibility. If OJ's children are caught in the middle then he should have thought about them before his slit their mother's throat. As far as the Goldman's rights - they have the right to take anything and everything of value away from OJ. He took Ron away from them. I don't think anyone can understand how the Goldman's feel until they have walked in their shoes.
There is a civil judgment for a total of $33 million awarded with part going to the Goldmans and part going to the Browns. I don't think anyone but their legal guardian, who happened to be the person being sued, could have sued on the children's behalf.
Neither the Goldmans or the Browns have received money from OJ because OJ refuses to pay them. He chose Florida as his new home specifically because Florida has very friendly "debtor" laws which protect many of his assets from collection by people he owes money to. There IS a trust set up for the children to receive a % of the funds that are collected but until the book deal, the Goldmans and the Browns couldn't access any funds to put into the trust because OJ has hidden it or insulated it using the laws of the State of Florida. One can only hope OJ has safeguarded a portion of his assets in an inviolable trust for his kids. If he has, I guess we will see soon enough, what with the kids coming of age. The Goldmans will receive 17 cents per book that is sold.
IF the memorabilia dealer came into possession of the property legally, then the Goldmans are not legally entitled to collect it; they are aware of that. But it has yet to be established that the dealer obtained the property legally. So in preparation of the finding, Goldman's attorney filed papers requesting that, should it be determined that the property was not legally obtained by the dealer, that it be given to his clients to satisfy the civil judgment.
When OJ saw his stuff in that hotel room, why didn't he call the cops? One of two reasons. #1. The dealer had legally obtained the property and OJ was stealing it, in which case he couldn't call the cops. #2. The dealer obtained the property illegally, in which case OJ had every right to call the cops to retrieve it for him, so why didn't he do that? Because if he had called them then the cops would have taken possession of the property while it was being determined if it was in fact stolen property and that would have required a public record of the items and that would have permitted the Goldmans to seize the items per the civil judgment, so instead of doing it legally, he stole it back in an attempt to avoid paying the civil judgment. If his only motivation was to regain possession of his things then why didn't he have those things when the cops came for him? Why were those items with the men who went in the room with him? Many items taken from that room are still missing. If OJ wanted them badly enough to seize them, why didn't he have them?
He's a snake. And the only way he can be made to pay for his crimes of murder is through this civil judgment. It isn't a desire for money that drives the Goldmans, it's a desire for justice. And, with the exception of the book deal, Nicole Brown has been right there with them trying to obtain justice.
The Goldman's are seeking the justice that our legal system did not give them.
What is not to understand about a family seeking to avenge the death of their loved one?
Selfishness?
How is it selfish to want justice for a double homicide?
What's amazing is they aren't children any longer. In my mind they are still young because I haven't aged since 1995. :) I believe Sydney is over 21 at this point with her brother over 18.
Not just scott free, his smiling, smug ridiculous face appears on TV and in magazines constantly. I can't imagine what they must be feeling. Collecting on the civil award is the only way they have to bring him to justice. Its the only way to remind the public that he's a monster, because he does still have friends and a public life. He still actually has fans, how sick are those people?
Well, if Sydney is 21 then she ought to be coming into money soon if OJ is protecting his assets for the benefit of his children. I venture the guess that if Sydney receives and has 100% control of money from a trust, neither the Goldmans or the Browns will attempt to attach it.
BTW.. 17 cents per book...1,000,000 books=$170,000.00. OJ received over $600,000 as an advance on that book.
this is interesting: February 13, 1997, Goldmans tell OJ they will waive all money owed to them if OJ will sign a confession. He could not be retried if he confessed to the crime, none the less, he refused.
Bigleague,
I was thinking the same thing. The Goldmans are so obsessed with getting OJ they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Nicole, I've heard, gets trashed in that book called all sorts of names. Why didn't they edit it out? The more and more they talk about this, the more publicity OJ gets and revels it. They are wallowing in their loss. It was a tragic loss, but I can't imagine Ron would want them still doing this 13 years later. He wouldn't want them to make Sydney and Justin relive the pain of losing their mother, trying to cope with life with their father, and with survivor's guilt. It had to have crossed their mind that if they had woken up and went in search for their mother would they have been murdered too? Would they have seen their mother being murdered?
My uncle was murdered by someone he knew or set up by someone he knew. My family doesn't allow the tragic loss to consume our lives. The Brown family has seen to have moved on with their lives, while the Goldmans seem stuck in 1994 and allowed their hurt and pain turn to obsession and hate.
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