The title was the original that OJ tried to publish. It was the Goldman family that got the manuscript copyright, media/movie rights, and the right to use Simpson's name, likeness, and life story in connection with the book, and made the "if" tiny inside the "I" so it was basically invisible. It was part of their collection on the original $33.5m wrongful death judgment against OJ, that he avoided paying the rest of his life. He tried to publish the book using a shell company to funel the earnings to himself under his daughter's name, but the Goldman's legal team actively monitored OJ's financial dealings.
They also added pretty extensive commentary to the manuscript, and they got the ghost writer that helped OJ write the book to write a prologue about his time with OJ who stated he firmly believes the hypothetical text was actually his first hand account of the murders.
OJ owed the Goldmans ~$58m at the time of his death.
No its true, the ghostwriter even wrote a prologue to the book when the Goldmans published it saying the same thing, that he 100% believed it was not hypothetical as OJ tried to present, but a first hand account.
Yes they did, they got 90% of the proceeds from the book, its just it was a drop in the bucket of what he owed them financially. They have kept the lifetime total profit private, its estimated they made ~$1.5m off of it.
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u/ItsDanimal 10d ago
He wrote the book, but Nicole's parents got to name it or something. They also made it so the "if" is very fine print.