OJ Simpson To Discuss Killing Of Ex-Wife

[Kor37 9]

Updated: 06:46 AM EST

 

 

O.J. Simpson to Discuss Killing of Ex-Wife

 

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 15) - Fox plans to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the former football star discusses "how he would have committed" the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, for which he was acquitted, the network said.

 

The two-part interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29, the TV network said.

 

Simpson has agreed to an "unrestricted" interview with book publisher Judith Regan, Fox said.

 

"O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes," the network said in a statement. "In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade."

 

Simpson, who now lives in Florida, was acquitted in a criminal trial of the 1994 killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in 1997 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Goldman family.

 

Messages left with Simpson and his attorney Yale Galanter were not immediately returned.

 

This guy is really sick. Not only did he get away with murder, he is now just dying to tell us how cleverly he did it without actually saying that he did.

Edited November 15, 2006 by Kor37

[BakulaBabe 2]

That's just disgusting. How could he do such a despicable thing, and what are his kids going to think about him writing a book about how he "would have" killed their mother and someone else? I hope that bookstores refuse to carry it so it'll be a dismal failure. He's a pig. No, wait...that's an insult to pigs.

[Kor37 9]

As for the TV special, NBC passed on it so naturally FOX bought it immediately... :blink:

Edited November 16, 2006 by Kor37

[Theunicornhunter 2]

The sad thing is people will buy the book :blink:

[Kor37 9]

The sad thing is people will buy the book :blink:

 

 

It will also be pretty hard not to tune into the TV special.

[MrPsychic 1]

I won't watch it, but they'll have enough clips of it spread throughout all sorts of news shows.

[trekz 7]

I'm hoping few people will buy the book, and that it will hit the remainder shelves soon, to be followed by a quick trip to the recycling bin. IMO this action by O. J. is dispicible :blink:

[Kor37 9]

UPDATE:

 

O.J. Simpson Book, TV Special Canceled

News Corp. Chief Calls It an 'Ill-Considered Project'

By DAVID BAUDER, AP

NEW YORK (Nov. 20) - After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and TV special "If I Did It."

 

 

Relatives of the victims had lashed out at the now scuttled special, which was scheduled to air in the middle of the November sweeps period.

 

"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."

 

A dozen Fox affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the Nov. 30 publication of the book by ReganBooks. The publishing house is a HarperCollins imprint owned - like the Fox network - by News Corp.

 

In both the book and show, Simpson speaks in hypothetical terms about how he would have committed the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Goldman.

 

Relatives of the victims have lashed out at the now scuttled publication and broadcast plans.

 

 

"He destroyed my son and took from my family Ron's future and life. And for that I'll hate him always and find him despicable," Fred Goldman told ABC last week.

 

The industry trade publication Broadcasting & Cable editorialized against the show Monday, saying "Fox should cancel this evil sweeps stunt."

 

One of the nation's largest superstore chains, Borders Group Inc., said last week it would donate any profits on the book to charity.

 

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murder in a case that became its own TV drama. The former football star and announcer was later found liable for the deaths in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the Goldman family.

 

 

At the time of the book's cancellation, it already was ranked 51st on Amazon.com. Excerpt from 'Judith and O.J.: The Musical'

 

Judith Regan, publisher of "If I Did It," said she considered the book to be Simpson's confession.

 

The television special was to air on two of the final three nights of the November sweeps, when ratings are watched closely to set local advertising rates. It has been a particularly tough fall for Fox, which has seen none of its new shows catch on and is waiting for the January bows of "American Idol" and "24."

 

The closest precedent for such an about-face came when CBS yanked a miniseries about Ronald Reagan from its schedule in 2003 when complaints were raised about its accuracy. The Reagan series was seen on its sister premium-cable channel, Showtime, instead.

 

One station manager who had said he wasn't airing the special said he was concerned that whether or not Simpson was guilty, he'd still be profiting from murders.

 

"I have my own moral compass and this was easy," said Bill Lamb, general manager of WDRB in Louisville.

 

For the publishing industry, the cancellation of "If I Did It" was an astonishing end to a story like no other. Numerous books have been withdrawn over the years because of possible plagiarism, most recently Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life," but a book's removal simply for objectionable content is virtually unheard of.

 

Sales had been strong, but not sensational. "If I Did It" cracked the top 20 of Amazon.com last weekend, but by Monday afternoon, at the time its cancellation had been announced, the book had fallen to No. 51.

 

 

 

A fitting end to an incredibly stupid idea!

[MrPsychic 1]

Wow, Fox actually cancelled something that deserved it! That's a first!

[trekz 7]

Judith Regan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Judith Regan (born 1953 in Massachusetts) is an American book publisher.

 

Education and career

Regan graduated from Bay Shore High School, on Long Island (where she grew up), in 1971.[1] She attended Vassar College, receiving her A.B. degree in 1975.

 

In 1978, while working as a secretary at Harvard, Regan answered a newspaper ad for a reporter for The National Enquirer. She got the job.

 

In the early 1980s, Regan relocated to New York City. In 1987 she approached Simon & Schuster with an idea for a book, a study of the average American family, with Ozzie and Harriet as its centerpiece. The editor at Pocket Books didn't want the book, but hired Regan to work for the company as a consultant. She soon had a string of successes: Drew Barrymore's Little Girl Lost, Kathie Lee Gifford's I Can't Believe I Said That!, and celebrity autobiographies such as those of Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern.

 

In 1994 News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch gave Regan her own subdivision at HarperCollins called ReganBooks. She later had a show on News Corp's Fox News Channel called Judith Regan Tonight, which is no longer on the air.

 

In 2006, Regan intended to publish O.J. Simpson's book, If I Did It, which caused widespread controversy. She issued an eight-page defense of the deal, entitled Why I Did It, in which she confessed to being a battered wife and that she felt the spirit of the slain couple in the room with her as she spoke to Simpson. [1] On November 20, 2006, News Corporation announced that it was canceling the publication of the book, along with an interview with Simpson that was to air on the FOX Network. [2]

 

 

Family and personal relationships

After Regan started working at The National Enquirer, and while still living in Boston, she met David Buckley (born 1946), a psychiatrist. He and Regan had a son, Patrick, in 1981. According to Regan, she divorced Buckley in response to his physical abuse. [3] [4] Buckley was convicted of drug trafficking in 1985 and sent to prison for five years. [5]

 

Around 1990, Regan married Robert Kleinschmidt and they had a child, Lara Kleinschmidt, in 1991. The couple separated in 1992. After three trials, the involvement of at least six lawyers, and more than a million dollars in legal fees, their divorce was finalized around 2000.

 

Beginning in 2000 or 2001, Regan began a year-long affair with married New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. Their affair was consummated many times in a New York apartment that was donated for the relief of 9/11 rescuers. At the time, Kerik was shtupping Jeanette Pinero in the same apartment. The two mistresses found out about each other when a love note that Regan left was found by the other woman. When Regan found out she was being cheated on, and the two mistresses spoke on the phone, Regan was reported to be shocked. [6] The affair surfaced during the aftermath of Kerik's (failed) nomination to become the head of the Department of Homeland Security in December 2004.[2]

 

 

Personality

Michael Wolff wrote in the April 5, 1999 edition of New York magazine:

 

Twenty-five years ago, at Vassar, where we met, she was a pretty, plumpish hippie girl, with a soft-focus interest in music, painting, creative writing. Her focus was sharpened by the fact that her family, from Bayshore, wasn't rich, and she resented those whose families were. She took up with a boy whose parents were very wealthy and after college stayed with him in his parents' apartment in the San Remo on Central Park West -- speaking volubly and bitterly about their wealth and pretensions. She and the boy moved to San Francisco, then to Boston, where she became a secretary at Harvard.

 

According to The Daily Telegraph in London, she is "the enfant terrible of American publishing", with some critics calling her the "angriest woman in the media". Vanity Fair magazine called her a "foul-mouthed tyrant". A former friend described her as "the highest functioning deranged person I've ever known". [7]

 

Simpson book

According to an MSNBC article on her decision to publish If I Did It:

 

She did it to help victims of violence. As a young woman, she wrote, she was abused by a boyfriend and believes Simpson's confession to the murders—even hypothetically—will heal the wounds of victims everywhere. (The former boyfriend denied the abuse allegations.) "I made the decision to publish this book, and to sit face to face with the killer," Regan said, "because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives. Amen." [8]

After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book.

 

References

^ Hall Of Fame 2003. Bay Shore High School Alumni Association, Inc. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.

^ Tom Hays. "Kerik's nanny least of ex-homeland security nominee's problems", Associated Press, December 13, 2004. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.

 

External links

IMDB: Judith Regan

Judith's Untold Story, New York Magazine, April 5, 1999

NY Daily News: Kerik and Regan 1

NY Daily News: Kerik and Regan 2

Judith Newman, The Devil and Miss Regan, Vanity Fair, January 2005

Brendan Bernhard, "The Gathering Storm: "Judith Regan, the world’s most successful publisher, heads for the coast", Los Angeles Weekly, June 2, 2005

 

Wafah Dufour - singer, niece of Osama bin Laden, signed in 2006 by ReganMedia to star in a reality series.

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Here's info on another of the guilty parties in this near disaster. Thank goodness she was stopped!

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Confess! You lier! You know what you did!

 

Everyone knows it's Butters! "That's me!"