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OJ Simpson was surrounded by all his children when he died. He is survived by two children with his victim Nicole Brown: Sydney and Justin; and two, Arnelle and Jason from his first marriage. But whether he left a secret cash pile is a mystery.
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OJ Simpson died with a final insult to his victims’ families: A mystery over his money which they will have to pay to unravel.
The 76-year-old took his debt to the family of Ron Goldman and to his own children to the grave unpaid, meaning they will have to employ lawyers once more to try to prise cash out of his estate — if there is any.
In fact his finances, The Post learned, are rife with unfulfilled obligations and backed by a secretive network of LLCs.
Simpson, 76, was found liable in 1997 for $33.5 million in civil judgments for the killings of Ron Goldman and ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson —an amount that grew with interest to more than $100 million.
Before his death, Simpson had only paid out $132,849.53 to the Goldman family, according to Nevada court records.
Simpson was also dogged by both federal and California state tax liens that went back to at least 2002, public records show.
One of his biggest debts was $1,471,880 for unpaid California state taxes, public records show; the total he left unpaid to state and federal authorities is as high as $5,227,519.
He left no property in his name and appears to have been living in a house rented by his oldest daughter, Arielle, 55, before his death.
But Page Six revealed Friday that he demanded to be paid in cash for lucrative memorabilia signings and even to play golf with fans, leading to questions over where it is now.
Simpson had myriad limited liability companies that were set up by his longtime lawyer Leroy “Skip” Taft, shortly before his own death in 2022.
A total of nine companies whose names included Orenthal Productions, Sydney Brooke Inc., Pigskins Inc., and Bruiser Enterprises were reactivated in June 2022, months after he was granted early release from parole.
Another limited liability company, Rockinghorse Enterprises LLC, was named after North Rockingham Avenue, his former Brentwood estate.
The network of LLCs may well point to his estate being similarly complicated, making it time-consuming and expensive for the Goldmans to sue.
The Goldmans and Simpson’s children by his marriage to their murdered mother Nicole Brown — Sydney, 38, and Justin 35 — would split the proceeds of any money found towards the $100m they are owed.
“The first challenge is to find the wealth,” Victoria Haneman, the professor of trusts and estates at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska, told The Post.
“The other challenge is to attack the structure. Very wealthy people set up complicated structures that are not subject to probate.”
If he held onto wealth before his death, Simpson kept it under wraps. “He had a little bit of money,” a Vegas pal told The Post.
“We would go out for dinner and he’d chip in for the meal. He didn’t expect other people to pay for him. But he was not picking up tabs the way you imagine he used to.”
But his spending may have been selective. According to Las Vegas Review Journal, “he was a generous tipper.”
In fact, an old friend of Simpson told The Post, “I know he was getting quite a bit every year from his NFL pension and the Screen Actor’s…
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