Here's a bit from the introduction written by the Goldmans:
The killer swore he would never work a day in his life to honor the judgment … well, he just had. He had worked hard on this book, thought he would retire off of it, and we took it right out from under him. He has escaped our reach for nearly eleven years, but not this time.
The specifics of the bankruptcy agreement are confusing. The simplest way to explain it is this: we levied on the book back in January 2007, so we had a secured claim on that asset. When it was forced into bankruptcy court, we had the biggest vested interest, since we also had the biggest claim ($38 million). We agreed to turn over a portion of the proceeds to the court in an effort to pay off LBA’s other debts, which included the Estate of Nicole Brown (his kids) which is owed $20 million and a few attorneys who are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars. The ironic twist is that we were now ordered to publish a book to help pay down our own judgment and help pay off his other outstanding “bills” and to pass money along to the family that helped create this drama to begin with. But again … it came down to him or us.
So here we sit, having to take this incredibly controversial book project, which was deemed abhorrent, disgusting, and dirty, and turn it into something powerful and positive. Having read the manuscript in greater detail, we are more determined than ever to put this product out into the world as an exposé of a murderer. We recall the language of the civil verdict: “he willfully and wrongfully caused the deaths of Ron and Nicole with malice and oppression.” According to the civil code, malice and oppression means “despicable conduct carried out by the defendant, to cause injury and that subjects a person to cruel and unjust hardship.” This is what you will see when you read his confession.
