IF HE DID IT
‘If I Did It’: Revisiting O.J. Simpson’s Book Where He ‘Hypothetically’ Admitted To Murder
In a strange turn of events, HarperCollins would end up canceling the book, and rights were eventually awarded to the Goldman family
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Update: the book has now returned to the top of the bestsellers charts, currently sitting at number one on Amazon’s criminology books list.
The death of OJ Simpson has brought renewed attention to his controversial 2007 bestseller, If I Did It.
Originally sold as a book by Simpson (with help from writer Pablo Fenjves), If I Did It offered a supposedly “hypothetical” account of how the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman would have occurred had the NFL star committed them.
In a strange turn of events, HarperCollins would end up canceling the book, and the rights to If I Did It were eventually awarded to the Goldman family.
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The Goldmans published a new edition of the book — which is the version currently available online —which added the subtitle, “Confessions of the Killer.” The republication also included a new forward from Fenjves (revealed to have been Simpson’s ghostwriter), new essays written by members of the Goldman family, and “key commentary” about the original trial, civil trial and O.J.’s conviction. A judge also ordered that all royalties from the sale of the book be awarded to the Goldman family.
As the publisher notes read, “The Goldman family views the book as his confession and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is O.J. Simpson‘s original manuscript with up to 14,000 words of additional key commentary from those whose lives were forever changed by the heinous crime.”
Want to read If I Did It online? The Goldman family and O.J. Simpson book is available as a 240-page paperback on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble. You can also listen to If I Did It as an audiobook through Audible here. The audiobook is narrated by Fenjves and Goldman’s sister, Kim. Read the audiobook online free with this 30-day free trial to Audible.
Simpson died April 10 at the age of 76, following what his family said was a private battle with cancer.