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Close of OJ Simpson as verdict is read during murder trialAP Television- PoolLos Angeles, 19952. OJ Simpson taking oath in courtAP Television Audio Recorded in Los Angeles...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFILE- AP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, California\u003cbr/\u003eOctober 3, 1995\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close of OJ Simpson as verdict is read during murder trial\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television- Pool\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 1995\u003cbr/\u003e2. OJ Simpson taking oath in court\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eAudio Recorded in Los Angeles \u003cbr/\u003eNovember 22, 2006  \u003cbr/\u003e3. (AUDIO phone conversation between OJ Simpson and AP Correspondent Linda Deutsch, over video still of book cover for \"If I Did It.\") \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) OJ Simpson, One Phone in Los Angeles:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is amazing to me how intelligent people who are anti-me, my detractors can make themselves stupid so that they can try to down me or dog me. I didn't do it, I have made it clear for a hundred years I didn't do it. I made it clear in this book I think, (that) I didn't do it.If anybody knows the evidence of the case they can read that half chapter and see that half the stuff was physically impossible and went against un-refuted evidence in the case. I was offered a deal, I told them I didn't do it, (but) I don't doubt that Miss Reagan thought I did it. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was a problem when me and the writer had to sit down, their writer had to sit down - their writer I might add - 'how can we make this work?' I insisted that you (the writer) say it is fiction. Well, we came up with the word hypothetical. It didn't matter. It is blood money. I said in the interview with them long before all this indignation had started around the country that it was blood money, just like every book and everybody that has ever made a dime from this case, it is blood money. I wish, you know, to be honest, I said in the interview that was taped before this - part of me hopes that nobody buys the book. And I don't feel guilty at all for what I did. What I did was based on a financial decision that would secure my personal homestead and hopefully if the book would have went on the market my kids would have had a pretty healthy financial future and legacy.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, California\u003cbr/\u003e20 November 2006\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of Deutsch\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, California\u003cbr/\u003e22 November 2006\u003cbr/\u003e6. Linda Deutsch talking to OJ Simpson on the phone \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Deutsch at desk\u003cbr/\u003e8. Notebook \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Deutsch, Associated Press, Los Angeles Correspondent\u003cbr/\u003e\"He is adamant that he did not kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald  Goldman. That he never meant to give that impression with the book that he agreed to do with FOX, the book and the TV interview. He said he made it clear that the reason he was doing this was for money and he called it blood money. He says that everyone that has ever written about him has been paid in blood money. He felt he was to be no different he said I finally had to join the jackals.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television - Pool\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 1995\u003cbr/\u003e16. Simpson in court.  \u003cbr/\u003eO.J. Simpson told The Associated Press he participated in the ill-fated \"If I Did It\" book and interview project for one reason - personal profit, acknowledging that any financial gain was 'blood money.'\u003cbr/\u003e\"This was an opportunity for my kids to get their financial legacy,\" Simpson said in interviews this week with the AP after the book deal was abandoned by its publisher. \u003cbr/\u003e\"My kids understand. I made it clear that it's blood money, but it's no different than any of the other writers who did books on this case,\" Simpson said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe book, said to describe how he theoretically would have committed the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, had been scheduled for release on November 30 following the airing of a two-part Simpson interview on Fox on Monday and Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003eOwners of Fox Broadcasting and publisher Harper Collins, cancelled the project after a public outcry and objections by advertisers and booksellers. \u003cbr/\u003eIn a radio interview on Wednesday, Simpson said the project was not a confession to the slayings. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I made it clear from the first day I met the writer that I wasn't involved,\" Simpson said in a telephone interview  broadcast on Miami's WTPS-AM. \u003cbr/\u003eAdding, \"I said, 'I have nothing to confess.'\"\u003cbr/\u003eGoldman's family, meanwhile, asked News Corporation to turn over its rights to the now-cancelled book and interview, an attorney said Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003eIn two AP telephone interviews this week from his Florida home, Simpson declined to say how much of an advance he received for the book but said it was less than the 3.5 (m) million US dollars that has been reported. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said the money has already been spent, including some he used to meet his tax obligations.\u003cbr/\u003eSimpson said he was convinced the book would have been a best-seller.\u003cbr/\u003e\"My kids would have been coming into a lot of money,\" he said, adding he desperately needs the cash because his retirement funds are dwindling.\u003cbr/\u003ePrepublication sales for \"If I Did It,\" had been strong but not sensational. \u003cbr/\u003eIt cracked the top 20 of bookseller Web site Amazon.com last weekend but had fallen to No. 51 by the time the cancellation was announced.\u003cbr/\u003ePublisher Judith Regan has portrayed the book as representing \"O.J.'s confession,\" and it reportedly contains a chapter where he explains how he could have committed the killings.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the former football star says he did not commit the murders. He said the book was ghost-written.\u003cbr/\u003e\"When I saw what he wrote, I said, 'Maybe you did it because they're saying the chapter contains things only the killer would know.'  Simpson said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't know these things,\" he added.\u003cbr/\u003eSimpson said on Wednesday he never spoke to Regan until taping the TV interview.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the course of the interview I said, 'This is blood money and I hope nobody reads it,\"' Simpson told the AP. \u003cbr/\u003eHe added, \"Everybody who has written a book about this has taken blood money; you can't have selective morality.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSimpson said he was disappointed by Regan's 'confession' statement, although he noted, 'I thought, 'This lady probably thinks I did it and I didn't.'\u003cbr/\u003eSimpson insisted he did not try to peddle the book to anyone, saying 'a guy' he would not identify brought the proposal to one of his family members.\u003cbr/\u003eSimpson said he told a representative of the publisher he would not allow the book's publication if it contained any graphic descriptions of \"cutting or stabbing.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAsked how he felt about the effect the book would have on the victims' families, Simpson expressed bitterness toward Goldman's father, Fred, who has denounced Simpson as a liar and murderer.\u003cbr/\u003eSimpson was acquitted of murder in 1995 but was later found liable for the killings in a wrongful-death suit filed by the Goldman family. \u003cbr/\u003eSimpson has failed to pay the 33.5 (m) million US dollars judgment against him in that case, and his pensions and his Florida home cannot be seized.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said Fred Goldman has helped drain his finances with 'frivolous lawsuits,' including one he brought recently attempting to deprive Simpson of the commercial rights to his name. \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough Simpson prevailed in court he said he spent 17 thousand US dollars in legal fees.\u003cbr/\u003eFred Goldman's attorney, Jonathan G. Polak, said Goldman wants the rights to the material to ensure that all copies are destroyed and that News Corporation does not sell the rights to 'some sleazy' cable pay-per-view operation or video site.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter Murdoch cancelled the book and interview, News Corp. subsidiary Harper Collins said all copies of the book will be destroyed.\u003cbr/\u003ePolak acknowledged that it was likely that copies of the book or portions of the interview would be leaked and appear in other media. \u003cbr/\u003eBut he said owning the rights might allow him to go to court and ensure any money from the projects goes to the families of the victims.\u003cbr/\u003eA call to a News Corp. seeking comment was not returned.\u003cbr/\u003eSimpson, 59, said his NFL pension pays only one thousand, seven US dollars a month and the private pension he amassed during the days when he was a TV pitchman and sports commentator is being halved next month because he's had to dip into the 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