If I Did It, Confessions of The Killer
Prologue: Pablo F. Fenjves
Afterword: Dominick Dunne
Commentary: The Goldman Family
Reviewed by Diane Kasperski
This is a difficult book to review as I have a definite opinion of O.J.
Simpson's guilt in the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman murders.
However, setting that aside I will try to objectively tell you about
the book.
O.J. Simpson was found not-guilty of criminal charges in the murders of
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Following that decision in
1997 he was found guilty of the same murders in a civil court. He was
fined 19 million dollars to be paid to the Goldman family and 12.5
million dollars to be paid to Nicole Brown Simpson estate for her
children. He walked free and spent years avoiding payment by moving
around, creating companies and finally settling in Florida. In 2006
Harper Collins announced an upcoming book where O.J. Simpson
hypothetically explained how he would have committed the murders. In
2007 the rights of the book where awarded to the Goldman family.
The Goldman family views the book as his confession. The ghostwriter,
Pablo F. Fenjves, uses the term 'malignant narcissism' once in his
Prologue to describe O.J. Mr. Fenjves had a time with Mr. Simpson.
First he gave details that only the murderer would know and then when
the book was done he wanted those parts to be deleted.
The book starts when O.J. meets Nicole and goes through their 17 year
old rocky relationship. Of course, O.J. makes himself out to be a saint
throughout which automatically makes one suspicious because no one can
be as perfect as he makes himself out to be. Then there are the details
he gave but throughout it all he reminds Mr. Fenjves and the readers
that this is a work of "fiction."