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O.J.'s Rolex a fake, ordered returned....

Fri Oct 5, 7:09 PM ET

AP- O.J. Simpson is getting his fake Rolex watch back. The timepiece, seized earlier this week by attorneys for Fred Goldman, was ordered returned to the former football star after it was determined to be a knockoff made in China.

Goldman has won a multimillion-dollar wrongful death judgment against Simpson, but the watch has so little value it falls under an exemption in the judgment excluding jewelry worth less than $6,075.

Goldman lawyer David Cook said his client will comply with Friday's order by Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg.

"While we are clearly disappointed with the outcome, this tells us that collecting on this judgment, against this guy, is really tough," Cook said.

Cook had hoped the watch might be worth as much as $22,000, but an appraisal from San Francisco jeweler Shreve & Co. concluded it was worth only about $100. Simpson had told his lawyer, Ronald Slates, he paid $125 for it.

Cook told Rosenberg he had a buyer willing to pay as much as $10,000 for the watch because it was Simpson's. But Slates argued that didn't mean Simpson was obligated to let Cook sell his watch, and the judge agreed.

Had he agreed to let Cook try to sell the watch, Slates said, Cook might have tried to go after other Simpson possessions of little value, claiming he could also sell them at a huge markup.

"We don't want to create a precedent where they can do that and we're forever faced with it," Slates said.

Simpson was acquitted in a criminal trial of the 1994 murders of Goldman's son, Ron Goldman, and Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. After their families sued him for wrongful death, a civil court jury found him liable for the killings and ordered that he pay $33.5 million.

Most of that judgment remains unpaid, although Fred Goldman recently won the rights to Simpson's book, "If I Did It." The ghostwritten account of how Simpson could have committed the murders is a New York Times best-seller.


I wasn't sure where to put this, I just found it funny. Even the Juice wears a fake!

~Brian

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Damn.. that is embarassing. I guess he was used to getting everything free from sponsorships that he figured he'd buy a fake Rolex.

I don't know much about OJ's case or anything.. never really paid attention. Learned more today that I ever knew! I remember the glove.

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Something tells me a week before he was ordered to forfeit his watch, he went to chinatown to buy a fake to give to the goldman's attorney while his authentic watch is in his florida masterbedroom safe. I mean the juice does get $400,000 USD pension annually from the NFL (which is not to be touched by the civil judgement). He definitely afford an authentic one.

OJ is very secretive of his signings. He makes extra money by signing memorabilia, and is supposed to forfeit those earnings to the Goldman family for the civil suit they won back in the 90's. The Goldman family often finds out AFTER the event takes place, and is usually rewarded with nothing.

Admin, the OJ case made our legal system the laughing stock of the world. A person with money walks from murdering two people. The whole investigation was botched, which left legal loop holes for "The Dream Team" of attorneys to shred.

The US has over 2.2 million people incarcerated, and has more on the death row than any other country in the world.

OJ got away with murder!

~Brian

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Brian, it makes you wonder what afterlife Kardashian and Cochran are in right now. LOL!

I would be willing to bet it's HOT where they are.



~Brian

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