It’s the big house, not the poorhouse, for O.J.
Tags: Las Vegas, Nevada, O.J. Simpson, prison, sentence
| Friday 5 December 2008 5:22 pm
Former football great O.J. Simpson may be down, but he’s not out. At least, not financially.
A lawyer familiar with the former Buffalo Bills running-back’s finances says Simpson, 61, will get to watch his nest egg grow nicely as he sits in a Nevada prison for the next nine years plus.
“He still has his house (in Kendall, worth $728,000) and his NFL pension (which pays him about $20,000 a month),” says Lisa Schiller. The Lauderdale attorney repped Simpson when the family of his murdered ex-wife, Nicole Brown, tried to make him cough up some money he used to pay down his mortgage.
“He’s got plenty of assets, and most of them are protected by the law.
“Of course, he’s going to have to pay some legal bills now, but I don’t see him come out of prison broke. Far from it.
“Think of this as a long trip somewhere that he’s taking.”
That “trip” is scheduled to be between nine and 33 years, the sentence handed down by a Las Vegas court Friday. Simpson had been convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in connection with a 2007 incident in which Simpson claimed he was trying to reclaim some of his memorabilia.
But of what use is that money if O.J. is not able to use it while in prison? It may grow over the time that he will be in jail, and that would be worthless when he fianlly gets free, which may be in 10 or 15 years. O.J. will be too old at that time to spend it on anything that he has been doing since being exonerated of murder in the 1990s. Just remember he owes the Goldman family millionsfrom a civil suit he lost, though, as noted here, his pension money and his home are legally protected. His two kids will inherit all that money.