CHAOTIC rumors from the O.J. Simpson camp that he has uncontested custody of his children could be very good news for law and order.
Now undistracted, he can press his vow to spend the rest of his life hunting the “real” killers of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
On July 20, 1994, O.J. – through his lawyer Skip Taft – set up a toll-free number and put up a $500,000 reward to hunt down these murderers.
“O.J. feels he is compelled to undertake his own investigation at his own expense to pursue all information leading to the arrest and conviction of the real killer or killers,” Taft said.
Then, on Oct. 3, 1995, as the reward went unclaimed and the killers were still on the loose, Simpson said: “I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman.”
O.J. had plenty of encouragement because earlier, on March 8, 1995, his lawyer Johnnie Cochran suggested Nicole and Ronald were butchered in a case of mistaken identity.
Victims, Cochran speculated aloud, of someone else’s unpaid drug debts who fell prey to “the Colombian necktie.”
So now that O.J.’s camp is floating the story that the children are as snug as a bug in a rug, the great running back can charge ahead unencumbered by further suits from Nicole’s parents, who once demanded custody of the children.
O.J. is on the job, and those Colombians better watch out.
On Monday, Simpson’s lawyer Bernard Leckie said that O.J. and Lou and Juditha Brown, his children’s grandparents and parents of Nicole, had made amends and are “on good terms.”
“The Browns and Simpson are getting on better now,” Leckie said. “They sit together at children’s athletic events.”
John Q. Kelly snapped: “He’s right. Simpson sits on one side of the athletic field and the Browns sit on the other.”
Kelly is the New York lawyer who mashed Simpson like a potato on the stand in the civil case which held Simpson liable for the deaths of Nicole and Ronald.
“This is just another spin from the Simpson camp which is trying to portray they are just one happy family,” he said.
Nothing could be further from the truth, Kelly said, adding:
“There is no custody agreement. They want nothing to do with this man. They want to have a substantial presence on the upbringing of their grandchildren, who they love desperately.
“To say they are on good terms with Simpson is quite ridiculous.
“They are too classy and too controlled to even talk about this ugly situation. But let me tell you – they think that O.J. Simpson is nothing but a mother-killer. Someone who killed their grandchildren’s mother, someone who killed their daughter in an unspeakable fashion.”
Today, Simpson, who ex-cops and former actresses allege once had a severe cocaine habit, has presumably given up the nose candy.
How else can you keep a 3 handicap on the golf course? It is good to stay ahead of the pack on a golf course so you can keep a sharp eye out for those Colombian hit men.
Simpson does not play golf at the expensive country clubs that he once frequented. How can he? Kelly won a $12.5 million suit in civil court for Nicole’s estate after a jury agreed he was the man who triggered the butchery of Brentwood.
“Have we received any of that money?” Kelly said.
“No. Not a cent.”
Perhaps all those great lawyers and prosecutors who made multimillions of dollars out of books they wrote after the trial could head off this ugly financial mess by contributing a portion of their profits from the collective sins of O.J. Simpson.
What a fitting and generous epilogue to one of the most ghastly episodes in the American criminal-justice system.