Even though O.J. Simpson died more than four months ago, it doesn’t mean that he can escape the debts he owes, and they aren’t cheap.
According to TMZ, Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s former lawyer, and current executor, has been tasked with trying to get more than $269,000 from one of the homes the former Buffalo Bill bought with the help of his son, Justin Ryan Simpson, who was just a young boy when his mother, Nicole Brown Simpson, was killed.
Justin reportedly helped his father buy a home in Las Vegas, Nev. in 2022 that was meant to be the place he lived in for the rest of his life. But now the estate wants the money that the NFL Hall of Famer originally put into the property, which could total $159,000, according to TMZ. The value of the Vegas home has since gone up by $100,000, meaning that the estate wants $269,000.
Although the payment of this debt would go a long way, it would in no way clear up all of Simpson’s debts. If you recall, he still owes more than $33.5 million in the 1997 wrongful death lawsuit to Nicole Brown Simpson’s family, even though he was acquitted of the 1994 murders.
In that civil suit, he was found liable for the deaths of Brown and Ron Goldman. The original amount Simpson was ordered to pay the family has more than tripled to over $100 million due to interest.
This means that Simpson’s executor has a lot of work to do to ensure that all of his debts are paid off in full. But this could prove to be difficult since LaVergne says his former client’s estate is currently worthless, which means he has to try every avenue possible to pay back creditors.