Orenthal James Simpson, popularly known as OJ Simpson, has allegedly confessed to the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.
This is according to the publisher of his 2006 book, If i did it, Judith Regan. The two had sat down for an interview in which Simpson talked about the night of the murder.
The publisher didn’t go ahead with the book and the interview which was to air on Fox, never saw the light of day and therefore, OJ Simpson’s account was never heard.
However, Regan is now speaking out in a new Fox special, O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession? In the special, Regan talks to journalist Soledad O’Brien about dealing with Simpson and his legal team — and she says that the former football star admitted to committing the murders.
A clip which was obtained by TMZ and was not aired on the special, Regan explained how she was contacted by OJ’s legal team; “I received a phone call from an attorney who said that O.J. was ready to confess,” Regan says. “And actually, I thought it was some kind of a scam and didn’t believe him, and I thought, ‘This guy’s a lunatic,’ but I took his number and said I’d call him back.”
“The next day I called him back and he said he was willing to do it, and the only condition that he had was that he didn’t want to call the book I Did It,” Regan claims. “He wanted to put an ‘if’ in front of it, so he would have deniability with his children. He couldn’t face his children and he couldn’t tell them that he had done it. That was the way it was portrayed to me. That was his only condition.”
In a trailer to the special which will now air on Fox, Simpson says; “Forget everything you think you know about that night because I know the facts better than anyone.” He adds, “This is one story the whole world got wrong.”
In a voiceover, a narrator asks, “Does he confess? You be the judge.”
Simpson was found not guilty of the murders in October 1995 after a lengthy trial. He was later found responsible for the deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the families of Brown and Goldman.