OJ Simpson now claims 'media tarnished his image'

<B>O.J. Simpson Says Media Tarnished Image</B>

<B>LINDA DEUTSCH--Associated Press</B>

MIAMI - It has been 10 years, but for O.J. Simpson it seems "another lifetime ago" since the world as he knew it ended with the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Acquitted of their killings, Simpson says he holds the news media responsible for persuading a majority of the public that he was guilty.

The football star said he still waits for the next chapter of his life to unfold, after the real killers are caught and he is absolved once and for all in the public's mind.

"My prayer is that it will be solved so that I can go to so many people that I felt I had to be nice to," he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. I've always been a gracious winner and loser. Only this time, I don't think I'd be gracious."

Overnight on June 12, 1994, Simpson went from revered gridiron superstar, movie actor, announcer and commercial pitchman to accused killer.

When a jury found him not guilty a year later, Simpson vowed he would spend the rest of his life searching for the real killers.

He acknowledged that he's no longer putting much effort into that search, saying that's partly because he's too busy raising the couple's two teenage children.

His lawyer, Yale Galanter, who sat in on the interview, said he continues to receive tips every week. But Simpson added that he no longer has the money to pursue them.

Prosecutors say he needn't bother, that the real killer was caught 10 years ago.

"I thought there was compelling evidence that Simpson was guilty," said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman, who helped prosecute the case. "I thought this case was a tragic injustice and the jury verdicts were wrong."

Simpson said it's not uncommon for the news media to portray people as guilty, even before the jury has deliberated their fate.

"You can't watch the media now and not think that Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and Kobe Bryant are guilty," he said of three high-profile cases yet to be resolved by a jury.

His own case, called the Trial of the Century, helped create a cottage industry for TV shows featuring legal experts debating the innocence or guilt of high-profile defendants. And although he admits to watching them, Simpson says they are not something he's happy about having his name linked with.

"If there's a negative legacy I have, it's all of those damned court shows on TV," he said during the interview, which stretched across nearly three hours.

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After their divorce, he said, she fell in with a bad crowd that he believes somehow contributed to her death.

"A month before she died, I had an argument with her about those people," he said. "Something was out of control here."

i FIND THIS STATEMENT AS A REDUNDENT PHRASE. THEY AS A MARRIED COUPLE WERE DOING DRUGS AND HANGING WITH SOME OF THE SAME TYPE OF PEOPLE. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE I READ IT, BUT IT WAS KNOWN THAT COKE WAS A FACTOR IN THERE LIFE. I THINK OJ WAS JEOLOUS THAT HE WAS OUT OF THE LOOP. HE WANTED HIS CAKE AND TO ........WHEN NICLOLE SAID ENOUGH TO THE ABUSE THAT ED HIM OFF. HE PROBABLY STALKED HER FOR A LONG TIME AND WHEN HE SAW THIS YOUNG HANDSOME RON AT THE HOUSE HE PROBABLY THOUGHT THAT WAS HIS REPLACEMENT AND SNAPPED. I AS A PARENT DON'T KNOW SOMEONE COULD COMMIT A MURDER WITH YOUR OWN KIDS IN THE HOUSE. THAT WAS THE ONE REASON AT FIRST I THOUGHT HE WAS INNOCENT. THAT CHANGED QUICKLY AFTER HEARING THE EVIDENCE.

 

Quinn, I, like you, never got over this case, much like I will never get over the JBR case until her killer is brought to justice. The difference is, of course, that Simpson did have a trial, and right or wrong, he was found not guilty, which does not mean he was innocent.

I wish he would just go away and stay away. Everything he says I've also heard the Ramseys say - it's the media's fault, it's the cops' fault because they didn't check out other suspects, in Simpson's case, it's the victims' faults.

Like I said on your other thread, Simpson is a pathological liar, and just about everyone knows it. He is one scarey, creepy man.

 

And still, 10 years later, it is STILL all about him. He has the same little nervous laugh, the same slick delivery - or so he thinks. I was a big fan of his, and also believed him to be innocent before the trial. I hated Marcia Clarke, and thought Chris Darden was a self-conscious, inadequate representative for the State.

He got away with murder.

Why would both Katie Couric AND Greta Van Susteren think him worthy of an interview? Why give this jackass any publicity at all? And who is going to be base enough to actually watch "Juiced"?

 

Isn't THIS just the icing on a pretty chitty week?!

If there is any other case that burns my :behind: more than this Ramsey case, it is this one. I love how supportive OJ is to his WannaBee's, don't you?

Seems to me, Katie has no problem with sitting down with a KILLER to boost her Ratings. Heaven Knows, America didn't already have enough of OJ to last a lifetime without Couric promoting his Victory. I'll never forgive her for hosting Lou Smit and JonBenet's death photo's, so she may as well pull a Marcia Clark and greet us in the morning with Nicole and Ron's slashed bodies as we start our day of having to Live in Times Like These.

RR

 

You Guys....

OJ Simpson is one of those murderers who will go on to their final reward/punishment with blood on their hands, and having never confessed and done the proper penance, will most likely roast in hell for eternity....Wonder if they have a golf course in hell....maybe, but it is probably located on the equator where the metal on the golf club shaft is so hot is burns one's hands....

No one gets away with the kind of slaughter OJ performed on two human beings without paying the piper eventually....Guess we have to leave the punishment for this evil man to the Final Piper....

Meanwhile, whenever I see his lying face in the media, the tube goes off....
Voyager

 

Poor OJ. He was the real victim there. It warms my heart to read parargraph after paragraph of him crying over the pain and horror his ex-wife and mother of his children must have suffered that night. And how he goes on and on about innocent Ron Goldman's pain and terror brings a tear to my eye. I also love the part about thanking God his own children upstairs didn't wake up to witness the slaughter of their mother.

Oh wait--none of that is actually in this interview. My bad.

 

I THINK IT IS GREAT THAT KATIE INTERVIEWED HIM. IT GIVES US ALL ANOTHER REASON TO HATE HIM MORE. SOME DAY MAYBE HE WILL SLIP UP WITH ONE STUPID STATEMENT LIKE PR. THEY WILL EVENTIALLY BURN WITH THE OTHER EVIL DOERS......

 

remember those shoes O.J. said he NEVER wore.

well, i cant remember the name of the shoes right now.

bruno.....something or other.........anyway.

O.J. said that in ALL the pics taken of him
wearing those shoes.....that those shoes
had been "added" via computer devices.

they were computer enhanced........
that he NEVER bought or ever wore
those shoes.

well, i think there are specialists who
could check those pics to
see if they were computer enhanced or not with THOSE shoes.

and that would catch O.J. in a Big.....Big.....Big LIE!!!!

can you believe he said that????

geez louise,
purr

 

Bruno Magli

 

Isn't that just so sad - poor OJ - it's always been all about him. I've never heard him make a statement about the God-awful terror and pain his wife and Ron Goldman had to suffer at the hands of their killer. That would just about kill normal people. I know it would crush me to know one of my loved ones had been slashed up like that. But, then, I'm not a sociopath.

Sort of reminds me of the Ramseys. I don't think I've ever heard them express real pain at what their little six year old daughter had to suffer. It was all about them and their indignation that they were asked to cooperate with the BPD and answer questions about that night so the investigators could eliminate them as suspects and move on. They refused to meet with investigators; yet, they have the unmitigated gall to criticize the police for not eliminating them as suspects.

I guess it never occurred to them that it might have been helpful if they gave a complete history of events of the time leading up to JBR's murder through face to face interviews. I guess they thought the police were supposed to absorb that information through osmosis.

 

I am still sick...

From watching OJ's interview the other night. And Catherine Crier is doing a special one with him Wednesday.... :lame:

 

I don't know if I mentioned this before. One of the Buffalo, NY, stations did an interview with Simpson a few months ago. He obviously has a tie with Buffalo from his years as a football player with the Buffalo Bills.

The reporter who interviewed Simpson is a very much respected journalist in the viewing area and elsewhere, but when they started advertising this interview, they were slammed with e-mails and phone calls at the TV station from really irate viewers. I was one of them who objected. They did air the interview, but I didn't watch it. I saw previews of it, and it seemed to me that the reporter wasn't promoting Simpson in any way. Even so, that scum doesn't deserve free TV time to promote his lies.

I think there is going to be another program this week with the other side of the story - perhaps the Browns and the Goldmans. At least, I think I heard that at the end of the Simpson interview with Couric last week.

 

HOW MANY CRIMINALS DO YOU KNOW THAT OWN SHOES OF A VALUE APPROX. 300.00 ? I THINK THEY PROVED IN ONE PICTURE THAT HE HAD AT ONE TIME OWNED A PAIR. IT WAS A PICTURE WHERE HE WAS GIVING AN INTERVIEW. I THINK IF A REAL CRIMINAL OWNED A PAIR OF THOSE SHOES, WOULD HE WHERE THEM TO COMMIT A MURDER? AS I HAD STATED BEFORE, I THINK O.J. WENT TO TALK TO NICOLE AND SAW RON THERE AND FREAKED B/C HE WAS INTIMIDATED BY THIS HANDSOME YOUNG MAN BEING THERE. MAYBE THEY DID HAVE A RELATIONSHIP AND WERE KISSING GOODNIGHT WHEN OJ APPEARED.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/GMA_Denise_Brown_040608-1.html

There's a free video in the link.

'Nicole Would Be Here Today …’
Sister Responds to O.J.’s Media Blitz; Remains Convinced He’s a Murderer

June 8, 2004 —When O.J. Simpson complains of problems he's having raising the children he had with Nicole Brown Simpson, there's at least one person who has no sympathy — Nicole's sister.

Denise Brown, who spoke out on behalf of her murdered sibling on ABC News' Good Morning America, remains convinced he brought the problems onto himself when, she alleges, he killed Nicole 10 years ago.

"If he's angry at Nicole [for not being around], then he should not have murdered her," Brown told GMA. "Nicole would be here today if it wasn't for him. Ronald Goldman would be here today if it wouldn't have been for him."

June 12 marks a decade since Nicole and her friend Goldman were killed, and Simpson accused of their slayings. A California jury a year later acquitted the former football star of the double murder, but a separate civil suit in 1997 found him liable.

Simpson reflected on the 10 years since he went from revered NFL Hall of Famer and celebrity to accused murderer in a recent interview with Fox News, where he said sometimes he is angry at his ex-wife for not being around to help raise their two children, Sydney, now 18, and Justin, now 15. He said he has trouble helping his children deal with their problems and the loss of their mother.

"Sometimes I think maybe I feel it more than maybe they [Sydney and Justin] express it," Simpson said in the interview. "I don't know if that makes sense. It's just that sometimes when I feel at a loss to deal with a problem, even though intellectually I realize it's all emotion. And even if their mother was here, she couldn't deal with it, but I just feel she could have been a lot more than a rock for them emotionally."

Manipulative Killer?

But Denise Brown says Simpson is only trying twist around facts and portray himself as a victim.

"That's his personality," she told GMA. "He lies, manipulates. They [people like Simpson] try to change everything around so people will look at him like he's the nice, wonderful human being he supposedly wants to be."

Brown said she was outraged when she heard Simpson in the Fox interview talk about how he took Sydney and Justin to a Benihana restaurant to mark what would have been their mother's 45th birthday. Like some other restaurants, the food is prepared and sliced with dramatic knife work by the chef right in front of patrons, and Brown said her sister Nicole had a fear of knives.

"She had a huge fear of knives, and isn't it ironic that he [Simpson] goes to a place where they do all that cooking and cutting on a grill right in front of you?" she said. "And he takes the kids there? That's kind of sick."

‘He’s Going to Kill Me One Day’

Brown said she has never doubted that Simpson killed her sister, despite the outcome of the criminal trial. Years of documented domestic abuse convinced her from the beginning that Simpson was Nicole's killer.

"She [Nicole] would say, 'Denise, he's going to kill me one day, and he's going to get away with it. … Let's go to lunch.'," Brown said. "It wasn't as if she was saying, 'Denise, I need your help. Please help me.' It was sort of, just a flip way of saying it, and it was so sad because I wish she would have come to me and said, 'Please help me. I'm in trouble.'"

Brown denied Simpson's claims she has profited from her sister's death. While she said she has not received any proceeds from the $33.5 million awarded in the civil suit, she conceded she did make $17,000 one year from the Nicole Brown Simpson Foundation she helped start in her sister's memory. That profit, she added, was approved by the foundation's board of directors.

Brown also said she had a chance to profit from a book deal, but turned down the offer.

I did have a $1 million book deal, and they wanted tabloid stuff," she said. "They wanted the cocaine, the partying, the drugs, and I told them that is not my sister's life. I said you can pay me $100 million, but I will not write a book like that, and I didn't do it."

Brown continues to carry on her sister's memory through the foundation, which is devoted to helping women in abusive situations. The organization plans to hold a candelight vigil to mark the 10-year anniversary of Nicole's death.

 

Surprise! More O.J. controversy!

Did O.J.'s lawyer try to hit paydirt?

BY VERNE GAY
STAFF WRITER
Posted June 8 2004

Surprise! More O.J. controversy! Reports circulated yesterday that O.J. Simpson's attorney had sought cash as a condition for interviews on NBC, Fox News Channel and Court TV.

Executives at ABC and CBS yesterday confirmed that Yale Galanter, Simpson's attorney, had approached the respective networks about interviews, though differed slightly on what conditions had been set. According to one scenario, reported in yesterday's New York Post, the Miami-based lawyer reportedly sought to be retained as a consultant for $100,000, thus circumventing network pay-for-play rules. An ABC News spokesman said yesterday a Galanter pitch was rejected that "was outside our standards." A CBS spokeswoman declined to comment.

In a phone interview, Galanter disputed the Post report and ABC's contention that he had approached them. "They are full of -- , and you can quote me on that," he said. Each network requested an interview, he added, saying that Katie Couric - whose interview aired Friday - was chosen "because she brings an incredible amount of credibility and stature."

An NBC News spokeswoman said, "NBC News did not and never will pay for an interview, and anyone who says otherwise is clearly disappointed that they got scooped."

A Fox News spokeswoman added that "not one dime" was paid and that Galanter has been a frequent guest on Greta Van Susteren's show, where Simpson was interviewed last night.

 

This is pretty funny

http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeper/cst-nws-roep08.html
June 8, 2004

BY RICHARD ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST


June 12 marks the 10th anniversary of O.J. Simpson not killing his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman. Simpson, who resides in a $575,000 home in suburban Miami and is living on a $300,000-a-year-pension (exempt from his civil suit liabilities), told Katie Couric he plans to star in a "Punk'd"-like practical joke show called "Juiced."

Great idea! What could be more hilarious than being surprised by O.J. Simpson? Just ask Nicole and Ron how much fun that can be.

Of course, you'll need Oda Mae Brown to contact them.

And whatever happened to:

Kato Kaelin: Reportedly pitching a show called "Houseguest," in which he'll play himself, a loser.

Robert Shapiro: Was recently hired, then let go, by Phil Spector. Wrote a mystery, Misconception.

Christopher Darden: Occasionally appears on TV as a legal analyst. Has written four novels.

Faye Resnick: Recently filed suit against her wealthy ex, claiming she has money coming to her.

Judge Ito: Still presiding over cases in Los Angeles.

Paula Barbieri: She's a born-again Christian, and she's married to a circuit court judge in Florida.

Mark Fuhrman: Wrote a bestselling book about the murder of Martha Moxley.

A.C. Cowlings: Sells handbags. That's right, handbags.

Tom Lange: The chief detective in the case has retired and is now making crime documentaries.

Marcia Clark: Parlayed her dreadful courtroom performance into a $4 million book deal, a job with "Entertainment Tonight," and most recently, a gig on "Hollywood Squares," I kid you not.

Johnnie Cochran: The man who wiped the floor with Clark, Darden et al. continues to rep celebs in high-profile cases.

Robert Kardashian: He was the attorney and Simpson friend who seemed most shocked by the not guilty verdict in the criminal trial. Last October, Kardashian died of cancer. He was 59.

Barry Scheck: Still using his expert DNA skills as a defense attorney in criminal cases. His Innocence Project has freed more than 140 prisoners on Death Row.

The Goldmans and the Browns: Still convinced O.J. did it.

The real killer: One thing we know for sure -- he's not in prison.

 

Fuhrman speaks: Mark Fuhrman says viewers will see the O.J. Simpson (news) murder case in a much different light after he releases new information on "The O.J. Simpson Case: Unanswered Questions," airing Sunday (9 p.m.) on Fox News Channel.

"I'm not going to call any one names or make any accusations — I'm going to tell you the story I know, first-hand, which is that there was a conspiracy to keep my partner, Brad Roberts, out of the case," the ex-LAPD (news - web sites) detective- turned-author told The Post exclusively yesterday.


In Sunday's special — hosted by Geraldo Rivera and tied to the 10th anniver sary of the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders — Fuhrman will detail why he thinks lead detec tive Phil Vanatter (who's also interviewed) and others kept Roberts from testifying at Simpson's murder trial.


Roberts and Fuhrman were among the first LAPD detec tives to arrive at Simpson's Rockingham estate after the murders.


"I'm going to release absolute corroboration as to why Vanatter kept Roberts out of the trial, considering [Roberts] found half of the evidence at Rock ingham," says Fuhrman.


"What I'm going to reveal is something that occurred in August 1994 [two months after the murders] between Roberts, Vanatter and [detective] Tom Lange that changed the course of the trial.


"You have to understand that Roberts touched almost every piece of evidence in the case," Fuhrman says. "He was the one who first took Simp son in, he found blood in the maid's half-bath, little drop lets of blood in the shower upstairs . . . a lot of evidence Roberts did find at the scene was left there by robbery/ homicide.


"When [prosecutor] Marcia Clark came to the crime scene on June 13th, Roberts was the detective who gave her a tour of Rockingham and told her what he and I had found," Fuhrman says. "Marcia very much knew who [Roberts] was — but never talked to him after that day.


"After the special on Sunday, everything will make sense."


So what's Fuhrman's take on O.J. Simpson's recent spate of TV appearances?


"Maybe everyone can take a lesson from Psychology 101 that this is a narcissistic psychopath who's manipulating people . . . it's insanity."