‘Zero’: OJ Simpson’s estate fights payouts to family of wrongful death suit

Details of the will left by OJ Simpson have emerged with the lawyer in-charge giving a sucker punch to the former NFL player’s victims.

OJ Simpson with former wife Nicole Brown Simpson.

OJ Simpson’s estate is reportedly fighting against paying money from a wrongful death suit to the family of the late Ron Goldman after the former football star died from cancer Thursday.

Simpson’s will was filed in Las Vegas on Saturday and the court documents named lawyer Malcolm LaVergne as the executor in charge of overseeing the estate, per the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

“It’s my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing,” the lawyer, who represented the former Buffalo Bills player since 2009, told the outlet via a phone interview.

“Them specifically. And I will do everything in my capacity as the executor or personal representative to try and ensure that they get nothing.”

LaVergne said he was shocked to find out that he was named the executor of Simpson’s estate, further claiming he does not know its full current value.

“I am flummoxed as to why he would name me as the personal representative or the executor, but he did,” he added.

“And it’s something I’m going to take very seriously.”

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the will states LaVergne is responsible for paying for a “suitable monument” for Simpson’s grave.

If the glove does not fit you must acquit. Picture: Supplied.

Additionally, the outlet reported the docs stated that the late Heisman Trophy winner wanted the will to be administered “without litigation or dispute of any kind.”

He reportedly added that any beneficiary, heir or person who “sought to establish a claim on the will” would have receive only one dollar “and no more in lieu of any claimed interest in this will or its assets.”

OJ was accused of fatally stabbing his second ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Goldman in June 1994 in Los Angeles.

After a highly publicised trial, the famed athlete was acquitted of the murders, however in 1997, OJ was found liable in a civil wrongful death lawsuit and was ordered to pay the families of Nicole and Goldman millions.

OJ’s family announced Thursday that he passed away at age 76 after succumbing to a battle with prostate cancer.

The families of Goldman and Nicole never received the full amount of money, as Page Six exclusively reported that he would run a substantial ring of all-cash business dealings.

“He would sign anything except anything that had to do with the trial or murder,” we were told. “The stipulation was always that he had to be paid in cash.”

OJ Simpson and the late Nicole Brown Simpson with their two children, Sydney and Justin. Picture: Supplied

Page Six was told that OJ had only paid $123,000 of the $33.5 million balance.

“With being paid everything in cash, there was no way to document how much money he had access to,” a source told us.

Goldman family lawyer David Cook earlier told the Daily Mail that Simpson had failed to pay off the full amount over the decades, with the sum ballooning to more than $100 million.

“We have to start over here,” Cook said in response to Simpson’s death. “We’re going to work on that. 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 be all gone.”

Divorce filings obtained by the Washington Post when Simpson split with Nicole Brown Simpson in 1992 put his net worth at $10 million.

Reports following his death suggested Simpson’s fortune may have whittled down to around $3 million.

This article originally appeared on Page Six and was reproduced with permission.

Originally published as ‘Zero’: OJ Simpson’s estate fights payouts to family of wrongful death suit