fred goldman's horror? Just wait boy, the king is gonna' show you horror
Look at this dirtbag continue his unwarranted persecution off an innocent man O.J. Simpson. He keeps trying to squeeze more money out of O.J. for he knows O.J. didn't kill his gigolo boy and he won't get no money from the real killers. you ain't foolin' nobody old boy! This is all about money, and the fact that you're a loser and so was your son.. And the racist media is complicit in helping this loser who can only be somebody by making these false accusations against O.J. coz' otherwise he'd be an unknown loser in the world. The curse of God is upon you for bearing false witness against an innocent man boy and surely as God Will it, the king can't wait to get his hands on you old boy. fred and his son didn't even get along! That is well known! Well old boy, if you live long enough, you're gonna' see horror. Coz' when God sets up the king, he's gonna' have a jail cell dug deep into the nevada desert and have you and the rest of your family who supports you in this unwarranted harassment of an innocent man thrown in it and you'll be brought out when you're dead! There will be no more Martin Luther King Jr's coz' your people killed him. No this is what you can expect if you think your gonna' continue to terrorize, oppress us and exploit us as you've done for over 500 years!!!! The new king doesn't believe in non-violent protest coz you don't and God has his back not yours!. Sick of you, you lyin' loser! Wouldn't even know your name if somebody hadn't killed your gigolo boy. And you wanna' insist O.J. did it taking advantage of the innate racism of many of your people hoping you can turn it into a payday for yourself!!! You lyin' piece of shit!!!
The racist news media claims O.J. owes freddie goldboy money. Don't worry freddieboy, the king is gonna' make sure you and your family get everything you got coming. Oh you ain't gonna'' see one red cent, but you're gonna' get everything your owed, the king will see to it personally.
The Goldmans on their pursuit of OJ Simpson: ‘We were called racist for not agreeing with the verdict’
Nearly 25 years after his murder alongside Nicole Brown Simpson, Ron
Goldman remains one of the world’s most famous innocent bystanders. As
the man they call ‘the killer’ is granted parole, Goldman’s father and
sister explain why they are ready to start fighting all over again
Kim and Fred Goldman, the sister and father of Ron Goldman.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Ron
Goldman put up a fight before he was murdered – on that much everyone
agrees. On 13 June 1994, the young waiter was found slumped against a
gate, a few feet away from the body of OJ Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole
Brown Simpson. Now, 23 years on, he remains one of the most famous
innocent bystanders of all time. Goldman had gone to Brown Simpson’s
house to drop off a pair of sunglasses her mother had left at the
restaurant where he worked; he arrived either during the murder of Brown
Simpson or immediately after. Instead of fleeing, he went towards her.
That is when the killer attacked him. Goldman, 25, had always looked
after himself – worked out, ate right – but the body of which he had
been proud was so brutalised during his killing – he was stabbed more than two dozen times – that when photos of it were shown in court jurors cried, gagged and fled the courtroom;
Judge Lance Ito had to call a recess. The Simpson trial remains one of
the most divisive cases in US history, but on two matters the defence
and the prosecution agreed: Goldman fought desperately for his life and his death was terrifying, protracted and brutal.
If his killer was surprised by how much of a fight Goldman put up,
then Simpson has been similarly taken aback by the tenacity of the
Goldman family. Ron’s father, Fred, and his younger sister, Kim,
attended almost every day of the murder trial in 1995 and their
devastated expressions were a constant reminder of the human cost of a
case that quickly became about everything – race, celebrity, the Los
Angeles police department, the US – but the murders themselves. When the
jury declared Simpson not guilty, prompting a wail of despair from Kim audible to the 150 million Americans
(57% of the population) watching on TV, she and Fred set out to find
justice. They filed a wrongful-death civil suit against Simpson; he was
found responsible for the murders of Ron and Brown Simpson and ordered
to pay their families $33.5m. Simpson claimed he was bankrupt, so the
Goldmans have been pursuing him indefatigably for his assets ever since.
‘He was happy-go-lucky, the clown in the room’ ... Fred Goldman on Ron Goldman in 1991. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
They have seized, among other things, the rights to Simpson’s
notorious book, If I Did It, in which he describes hypothetically how he
would have killed Ron and Brown Simpson. Simpson’s original publishers
dropped it after a public backlash, but the Goldmans decided to publish
it themselves, considering it Simpson’s long-overdue confession. They
have said repeatedly that they do not care about the money and that they
have recouped less than 1% of it. But they want to ensure that the man
they insist killed Ron will be looking over his shoulder for the rest of
his life. (The Brown family has been much less aggressive with Simpson,
at least partly for the sake of the two children Brown Simpson had with
him.)
Simpson used state and federal laws to evade his financial obligations to the Goldmans, moving to Florida, where state laws prevented the Goldmans from taking his home. But even legendary athletes can run only for so long. In 2008, he was convicted of multiple felonies after he stole sports memorabilia from a collector in a Las Vegas hotel room. In recordings made before the robbery,
Simpson referred to the Goldmans as “the gold-diggers” and said he did
not want to commit the crime in California, because state laws meant the
Goldmans would be able to seize the mementos. On 3 October 2008, 13
years to the day after he was acquitted of double murder, he was found
guilty and sentenced to 33 years’ incarceration.
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“We feel very strongly that, because of our pursuit of him for all these years, it did drive him to this,” Kim told reporters after the sentencing. When asked how she would feel when Simpson came up for parole in nine years, she replied: “We’ll be there, waiting and watching.”
***
It is 20 July 2017 and Fred is in a hotel room in midtown Manhattan,
New York. The TV is tuned to a 24-hour news channel. Suddenly, an
egg-timer appears on screen, counting down the hours to Simpson’s parole
hearing, which will, of course, be televised. “Coming soon: OJ’s
hearing, where we’ll hear from OJ himself!” says the presenter. Fred
turns off the TV. The moustache, curled at the ends, that became a
familiar sight during the murder trial in 1995 is a little sparser these
days. Dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and jeans, a Star of David necklace
resting against his broad chest and hearing aids hooked over his ears,
Fred, 76, looks like a typical Jewish-American grandfather. He has the
warm demeanour to match, but today his face is furrowed with anxiety. He
did not sleep well last night – “of course”. When I ask how he is
feeling, he considers the question carefully. “I’m gonna say
apprehensive,” he replies.
‘Nothing ever takes away from the grief’ ... the Goldmans today. Photograph: Tim Knox for the Guardian
His daughter, Kim, 45, comes in from her room across the hall. Where
her father is solemn, she is edgy. “I’m preparing myself for what I
believe is going to be a release,” Kim says. Her voice is calm, but her
hands are tightly wrung together. She looks a little like Celine Dion,
but, with her long face, deep-set eyes and narrow nose, the person she
really resembles is her brother. It is a sunny day outside, but the mood
in the room is claustrophobic and gloomy. How will they feel if the man
they are certain killed Ron is on the streets again?
They are silent for a few seconds.
“We’re gonna go after him the way we did in the preceding years,
before he went to jail. Unless we honour the judgment, he’s never gonna
be punished,” says Fred.
Do they really feel that way?
“Oh, absolutely,” he says, his voice getting stronger. “That’s the
punishment. So we’re gonna try to make sure the killer is punished.” The
Goldman’s never utter Simpson’s name. He is always “the killer”.
Americans’ feelings about Simpson during and immediately after the
murder trial were divided notoriously along race lines: most African
Americans thought he was innocent; most Caucasians thought otherwise.
Today, the vast majority of people, whatever their race, take his guilt as a given.
The loss of the public’s love must be crushing for the deeply
narcissistic and needy Simpson. Do the Goldmans find some vindication in
that?
‘There will still be people who will seek him out for
pictures’ ... a man celebrates Simpson’s acquittal in 1995. Photograph:
Eric Draper/AP
“There will still be people who will seek him out for pictures. He
wasn’t as ostracised from society [after the murder trial] as I thought
he would be,” says Kim.
“There was always someone who would play golf with him and there still will be,” agrees Fred.
Despite the change in attitude about Simpson, both Goldmans – Kim
especially – have been harassed and abused, online and offline.
“I get called all sorts of names – antisemitic, racist, sexual things. I ignore most of it,” Kim says.
“Report it all,” her father says, anxiously.
This abuse gets worse when Simpson is back in the spotlight, as with
today’s parole hearing and last year’s high-profile re-examinations of
the case, the schlockily compulsive TV series The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story and the majestic documentary film OJ: Made in America.
Although he appears in the latter, Fred avoided watching both: neither
said anything he did not already know and both reduced his son to a bit
part. Kim watched some of The People v OJ Simpson, which she thought was
“gross”.
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I
ask if it helps that Ron’s murder remains infamous. “Look, I feel very
... fortunate isn’t the right word, but honoured that people know who my
brother is. But you don’t ever get a moment’s break from it and it is
always so weird to see Ron’s picture on TV and to think: ‘Oh, this is
us. This is actually us,’ you know? You never get used to it,” Kim says.
***
Fred raised Ron and Kim on his own in Illinois, after his divorce
from their mother. “The three musketeers,” Fred says, an old family
joke. Kim was always the studious one, whereas Ron was more of “a free
spirit”, Kim says. “He was happy-go-lucky, the clown in the room.”
“He didn’t fit into a mould,” they say, in near-perfect synchronicity.
They were the kind of family who shared everything. Ron would talk
about his girlfriends with his father and sister; when he was planning
to open his own bar, he asked his father for help with “a new business”.
Fred agreed instantaneously without even asking what the business was,
but Ron died before he could show his father the plans. There has long
been a tabloid insinuation that Ron and Brown Simpson were sleeping
together, although there has never been any evidence of this. “Ron was
always pretty open about who he was dating. I’m sure he would have said
something if they were,” says Fred.
Today, Fred lives in Arizona and works in real estate, while Kim, who
has a 13-year-old son, lives in California and runs a non-profit
organisation that provides counselling for teenagers. The closeness that
people saw between them during the murder trial is still there: Fred
rubs Kim’s shoulders when she talks about difficult subjects; she swats
his knee fondly when he gets dates mixed up.
I ask what they find harder: Ron’s absence from their tight-knit family or the brutal way in which he died.
“I know how Ron died, but I’ve never seen the pictures,” says Kim.
Was she not in court when the photos were shown?
“I was, but the photos were facing the jurors, so I just watched
their reactions to them, which was surreal. I know how vicious it was
and I know he died with his eyes open,” she says, looking down.
“I constantly think how I didn’t get to share all the things I wanted
to with Ron, like him getting married, having kids,” says Fred. “These
thoughts, they’re always there. Always, always, always.” He starts to
cry.
Ron
Goldman put up a fight before he was murdered – on that much everyone
agrees. On 13 June 1994, the young waiter was found slumped against a
gate, a few feet away from the body of OJ Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole
Brown Simpson. Now, 23 years on, he remains one of the most famous
innocent bystanders of all time. Goldman had gone to Brown Simpson’s
house to drop off a pair of sunglasses her mother had left at the
restaurant where he worked; he arrived either during the murder of Brown
Simpson or immediately after. Instead of fleeing, he went towards her.
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