O.J. Simpson Estate Agrees To Pay Family of Ron Goldman 31 Years After His Death

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

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It’s a headline three decades in the making. The executor of the O.J. Simpson estate has publicly acknowledged it owes $58 million dollars to the family of Ron Goldman, but the most the family might ever see would be between $500,000 and $1,000,000, and even that might be a long shot. The Goldman’s have to essentially “get in line” with other creditors, including the IRS, following the death of Simpson last year. This all stems from the civil case where Simpson was found liable for the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, the jury awarding the families $33.5 million dollars at the time. Right now, Simpson’s estate is auctioning off Simpson’s remaining memorabilia to try and raise enough cash to pay down its debts, but turned down a very high profile offer from Kim Kardashian, who was looking to purchase a very sentimental item for her family.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.9	Hey there, everybody.
0:07.6	It's Tuesday, November 18th.
0:10.3	And a big headline for Ron Goldman's father, Fred Goldman,
0:17.2	31 years after the death of his son, O.J. Simpson's estate finally agrees to pay him. And with that,
0:26.9	everyone, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. This is a man who has been for three decades
0:35.3	talking about pursuing, trying to get some sort of justice for the death of his son
0:42.7	and it seems as though he may get apart partial justice perhaps is what we might call it is that
0:50.6	what we call this if he'd have gotten every single dime of that money, that initial judgment, 30 plus million, would that have felt like justice, I would argue no. Like you said,
1:00.6	some semblance of some, some little, I guess something that you could say you had a win. I mean,
1:09.2	the win was in court. Him paying isn't the
1:11.6	win, I guess, but I guess that judgment originally was the only thing they had, which was a legal
1:17.4	court proceeding that said that O.J. Simpson was responsible for killing Ron Goldman. That was
1:24.4	the biggest moment probably for this family. Yes. And you think about it. This is a family
1:29.3	that has been dealt a series of somewhat wins and obviously a significant loss when O.J. Simpson was
1:35.9	found not guilty for the murders of Bronn Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. But then, yes, they get
1:41.7	the civil judgment with a huge payout that they never received.
1:46.0	Then O.J. Simpson finally does go to prison, but not for the crime of murder, but for burglary,
1:54.5	for stealing back his own stuff. So yes, he goes behind bars, but not for the reasons why
1:59.8	the Goldman family would have wanted.
2:01.7	And then he dies before any of this actually happens in his lifetime.
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