DUNNE DISAPPROVES OF SIMPSON BOOK HE HELPED WRITE
Crime writer DOMINICK DUNNE "disapproves" of O.J. SIMPSON’s controversial IF I DID IT book, even though he wrote the tome’s afterword.
The revered U.S. journalist insists he didn’t want to contribute to the book, but agreed to as a favour to his friend Fred Goldman after he won the rights to publish the hypothetical account of how Simpson `murdered’ his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Goldman’s son Ron in 1994.
Simpson was acquitted of the double murder, but the Goldman family won a huge financial civil settlement against the star, and, after winning a legal battle to keep the If I Did It book from stores and stop Simpson from cashing in on sales late last year (06), Fred Goldman decided to release the tome himself to recoup some of the money awarded to his family.
Goldman asked Vanity Fair columnist Dunne to give the book, which was released in America on Friday (14Sep07) an authentic overview, and the writer eventually agreed.
He says, "I’m not profiting. I didn’t get paid… I didn’t want to get paid, I didn’t actually want to do it.
"I have not read the book, I will not read the book, I disapprove of the book.
"I sat with the Goldman family throughout the O.J trial… and we became friends and he asked me to do it, I declined at first. He said they needed my name.
"I didn’t write about the trial, I wrote about my relationship with them during the trial." Goldman has admitted he was reluctant to release the book at first, fearing it was nothing more than "a manual for murder".
Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)
Related News:
