Regan, for her part, said she did not pay Simpson for the interview and book despite reports that he got as much as $3.5 million for it. The former NFL star had been acquitted of the murders in 1995, but a Southern California civil court jury ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the families of Goldman and his ex-wife.Ĭhristopher John Farley, the editor of the Wall Street Journal at the time, said that it hadn't "been adequately explained" how Simpson was profiting off the book. Part of the criticism stemmed from the potential that Simpson would profit from the book sales. The Goldman family also established an online petition to boycott the show and the book. The family of Ron Goldman echoed that sentiment, calling the proposed interview "an all-time low for television." Fred Goldman, Ron's father, asked readers of the Los Angeles Times to " send a message to Fox that if Fox believes their viewers want this kind of trash on television, they must not think very highly of their viewers."
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Regan takes full accountability for promoting the wrongdoing of criminals and leveraging this forum and the actions of Simpson to commercialize abuse," she added. Denise Brown, Nicole Brown Simpson's sister, criticized Regan for " promoting the wrongdoing of criminals" and commercializing abuse, CNN reported.
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When the plans for the book and TV show were announced in mid-November 2006, they were met with an immediate public outcry.
The interview was scheduled to air on Fox, which like HarperCollins, was owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Regan set up the interview to promote If I Did It, a book by Simpson that she commissioned for her HarperCollins imprint, ReganBooks, that was set for release on November 30, 2006. The interview tapes have remained buried for more than a decade, but the controversy it sparked back in 2006 has not been forgotten.
Simpson: The Lost Confession?, a two-hour special hosted by journalist Soledad O'Brien that examines an infamous 2006 interview between Simpson and publisher Judith Regan about a hypothetical account of the Jmurders of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. Both companies were owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
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