In what could well be the sleaziest – and certainly the strangest – documentary in the history of television, O.J. Simpson has agreed to a Fox TV interview in which he’ll discuss how he murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman 12 years ago – if, that is, he actually murdered them.
Simpson will be interviewed by Judith Regan, founder and chief executive of ReganBooks, which will publish Simpson’s “If I Did It” on Nov. 30. ReganBooks is an imprint of HarperCollins, owned by News Corp., parent of Fox.
The interview, “O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened,” will air Nov. 27 and 29.
“This is an interview that no one thought would ever happen,” Mike Darnell, Fox chief of reality programs, said in a statement. “It’s the definitive last chapter in the trial of the century.”
Maybe, maybe not: Simpson was paid a reported $3.5 million for the book, according to the National Enquirer, which first reported on its existence last month.
Not much is known about the book or the interview; ReganBooks hasn’t yet posted a description on its website, although the Enquirer piece did note that Simpson’s account of the murders is “so detailed and so chillingly realistic” that readers will probably come to the conclusion that Simpson did commit the crimes.
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 after the criminal trial but later found liable for their deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million to their families.
