O.J. Simpson is being sued for the 1995 deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, nearly five years after his release from prison.
According to TMZ, Goldman’s father Fred is seeking to have an earlier judgment against Simpson renewed on the grounds that the former NFL player owes him $96 million for the death of his son.
The news comes 25 years later. After being judged responsible for the 1994 murder of Ronald, Simpson was forced to pay the Goldman family $33.5 million.
“In 2015, Fred [Goldman] said with interest, O.J. owed him $57 million,” the outlet reports. “But, in the new docs, Fred now says interest has continued to pile up over the last seven years and has now reached nearly $97 million.”
Back in 2017, Goldman submitted court papers requesting that Simpson pay the $70 million wrongful death judgment he owes them with money earned through interviews, TV appearances, and presentations.
On June 12, 1994, Goldman and Brown were killed in Nicole’s house in Brentwood, California. Prior to being held responsible for both deaths in a 1997 civil action, Simpson was cleared of both murders in 1995.
Following his conviction on abduction and robbery charges related to an incident involving memorabilia in a Las Vegas hotel in September 2007, Simpson was sentenced to nine years in prison at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada.