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Fred Goldman didn't fight that hard for the rights to If I Did It just to let pirates plunder his returns.
The embattled patriarch is suing The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Website based in Sweden that he alleges has cost him at least $150,000 in royalties by offering free downloads of the hypothetical tell-all which details from O.J. Simpson's point of view how the ex-NFL great would have gone about killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
According to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Goldman's attorneys sent cease-and-desist letters to Pirate Bay operators, but the communiqués were for the most part ignored.
The defendants indicated they believe that "they are not subject to the laws of the United States," the complaint reads. However, it's American advertisers such as Wal-Mart, Target and the Wall Street Journal that enable such a site to exist, the plaintiff alleges.
Goldman is looking to recoup any lost profits, 90 percent of which would belong to him, as per a previous court ruling that diverts the remaining percentage to the bankruptcy trust that took over the shell corporation Simpson set up to hang on to his book royalties.
"Ron Goldman LLC will never be able to stop these pirates from posting that book online, but they can do that in the poorhouse," Goldman attorney David Cook told reporters.
If I Did It became a bestseller in September, despite it being the very same book that prompted so much bad press last year that News Corp.-owned HarperCollins scuttled the project and fired publisher Judith Regan.
Except for the fact that the tome, put out by Beaufort Books, now boasts an afterward by famed celebrity trial analyst and Vanity Fair columnist Dominick Dunne, and that the "If" on the cover is in much smaller print than the rest of the title.
As soon as it was reported that Simpson had received somewhere in the vicinity of an $800,000 advance from ReganBooks, the Goldmans seized what they viewed as another opportunity to finally collect on the $33.5 million wrongful death judgment awarded to them and Nicole's family in 1997.
Simpson was acquitted of the murders in 1995 but a civil jury found him liable.
Although they may never get close to collecting their $19 million share of the judgment, which now amounts to almost $39 million with interest, the Goldmans have claimed a few small victories in their efforts to squeeze the Juice over the years.
An auction of some of Simpson's possessions, including the Heisman Trophy he won playing for USC, netted about $500,000, although Goldman has said that the sum went entirely toward legal expenses.
Earlier this year, a judge ordered Simpson to start turning over all of his Screen Actors Guild residuals from past movie and TV appearances to the Goldmans and, soon after, the family scored the rights to If I Did It.
The Goldmans have also laid claim to the sports memorabilia recovered from the alleged September heist that has Simpson facing armed robbery charges in Las Vegas (a turn of events that hasn't exactly displeased the Goldman clan).
If it turns out that the items belong to Simpson, as he claims they do, then the memorabilia could be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
"When all is said and done, my son on the night of June 12, 1994, made a choice to stand and fight and didn't run away. And we're not going to run away," Goldman told the Associated Press recently when asked what motivates him to keep fighting Simpson after all these years. "It wouldn't serve to honor Ron's memory to walk away and pretend like it never happened."
Keep piling them on, bury them in legal fees. There is no way in hell they are making that much money to afford to defend all of these high profile suits.
Keep em coming. I think the best thing people can do is find people's shit on these sites and inform them. Let them do the work.
This is gonna be great. More and more people with REAL money are going after these thiefs.
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/...rss_topstories
Fred Goldman didn't fight that hard for the rights to If I Did It just to let pirates plunder his returns.
The embattled patriarch is suing The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Website based in Sweden that he alleges has cost him at least $150,000 in royalties by offering free downloads of the hypothetical tell-all which details from O.J. Simpson's point of view how the ex-NFL great would have gone about killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
According to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Goldman's attorneys sent cease-and-desist letters to Pirate Bay operators, but the communiqués were for the most part ignored.
The defendants indicated they believe that "they are not subject to the laws of the United States," the complaint reads. However, it's American advertisers such as Wal-Mart, Target and the Wall Street Journal that enable such a site to exist, the plaintiff alleges.
Goldman is looking to recoup any lost profits, 90 percent of which would belong to him, as per a previous court ruling that diverts the remaining percentage to the bankruptcy trust that took over the shell corporation Simpson set up to hang on to his book royalties.
"Ron Goldman LLC will never be able to stop these pirates from posting that book online, but they can do that in the poorhouse," Goldman attorney David Cook told reporters.
If I Did It became a bestseller in September, despite it being the very same book that prompted so much bad press last year that News Corp.-owned HarperCollins scuttled the project and fired publisher Judith Regan.
Except for the fact that the tome, put out by Beaufort Books, now boasts an afterward by famed celebrity trial analyst and Vanity Fair columnist Dominick Dunne, and that the "If" on the cover is in much smaller print than the rest of the title.
As soon as it was reported that Simpson had received somewhere in the vicinity of an $800,000 advance from ReganBooks, the Goldmans seized what they viewed as another opportunity to finally collect on the $33.5 million wrongful death judgment awarded to them and Nicole's family in 1997.
Simpson was acquitted of the murders in 1995 but a civil jury found him liable.
Although they may never get close to collecting their $19 million share of the judgment, which now amounts to almost $39 million with interest, the Goldmans have claimed a few small victories in their efforts to squeeze the Juice over the years.
An auction of some of Simpson's possessions, including the Heisman Trophy he won playing for USC, netted about $500,000, although Goldman has said that the sum went entirely toward legal expenses.
Earlier this year, a judge ordered Simpson to start turning over all of his Screen Actors Guild residuals from past movie and TV appearances to the Goldmans and, soon after, the family scored the rights to If I Did It.
The Goldmans have also laid claim to the sports memorabilia recovered from the alleged September heist that has Simpson facing armed robbery charges in Las Vegas (a turn of events that hasn't exactly displeased the Goldman clan).
If it turns out that the items belong to Simpson, as he claims they do, then the memorabilia could be worth tens of thousands of dollars.
"When all is said and done, my son on the night of June 12, 1994, made a choice to stand and fight and didn't run away. And we're not going to run away," Goldman told the Associated Press recently when asked what motivates him to keep fighting Simpson after all these years. "It wouldn't serve to honor Ron's memory to walk away and pretend like it never happened."
Keep piling them on, bury them in legal fees. There is no way in hell they are making that much money to afford to defend all of these high profile suits.
Keep em coming. I think the best thing people can do is find people's shit on these sites and inform them. Let them do the work.
This is gonna be great. More and more people with REAL money are going after these thiefs.
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