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...those with an interest in the weak side of human nature, the beauty of the O.J. Simpson case is that just when you think the possibilities have been exhausted, someone else comes along and does something low and discreditable. Robert Kardashian is one of Simpson's close friends, and it was at his house that Simpson was staying before he set off in his Bronco. Kardashian spent months at Simpson's side during the trial. Now, in return for money, he has helped produce a book in which he cast doubts on Simpson's innocence. He has betrayed a friend...
...Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth, a TIME correspondent who covered the trial. Schiller is a colorful operator whose exploits include photographing Marilyn Monroe in the nude and providing Norman Mailer with the reporting about Gary Gilmore for The Executioner's Song. Schiller was the one who created and sold Simpson's sanctimonious, self-serving best seller, I Want to Tell You, and thereby raised money to pay Simpson's lawyers. With American Tragedy, he has produced quite a different book, a serious effort that describes the conduct of the Simpson defense in rich detail...
Schiller has also provoked a battery of charges and countercharges about ethics and truthfulness that involve not only Kardashian, but some of Simpson's other lawyers, as well as Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Run of His Life, currently a best-selling Simpson book, and Johnnie Cochran Jr., Simpson's lead attorney, who has a new book out too. His is a vain autobiography called Journey to Justice. Toobin and Cochran are both attacking Schiller, and, for good measure, each other. Opening arguments for Simpson's next trial, the civil one, are set to begin this week, but make...
...three white women demonstrating in support of O.J. Simpson in front of the Santa Monica courthouse where his civil trial is being conducted. The three women said that they were too afraid to be indentified by name but that they believed that Simpson is innocent...
...list of wealthy black men and asked them to bankroll the film. Among those who responded: actors Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...