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Simpson death could put Goldman, Brown families in better position to collect

Simpson ordered to pay $33.5M in wrongful death civil suit, most remains uncollected
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FILE - Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, hugs his wife Patti, as his daughter, Kim, left, reacts during the reading of the not guilty verdicts in O.J. Simpson double-murder trial in Tuesday, Oct. 3,1995, in Los Angeles. Simpson was acquitted in the murders of Goldman and Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole. Foreground is Los Angeles Police Detective Tom Lange, co-lead investigator in the case. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)

O.J. Simpson died Thursday without having paid the lion’s share of the $33.5 million judgment a California civil jury awarded to the families of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

Acquitted at a criminal trial, Simpson was found liable by jurors in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit.

The public is now likely to get a closer look Simpson’s finances, and the families are likely to have a better shot at collecting — if there is anything to collect.

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