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O.J.: the ghostwriter did it

The cover of If I Did ItThe latest in the continuing brouhaha over O.J. Simpson’s notorious “fictional” confession, If I Did It, is Simpson’s claim that the chapter supposedly detailing his killing his ex-wife and her lover (excerpted in the latest issue of Newsweek) was a work of fiction written by the book’s ghostwriter. Simpson says that, furthermore, the account contains enough factual errors to prove he had nothing to do with it. (The chapter, that is…)

According to an Associated Press story reprinted in the Toronto Star, Simpson knew the chapter was going to be a problem and asked to have it taken out, but was told by his publishers that the fictional confession would be “the hook that would sell the book.”

Poor O.J. – fugitive, murder suspect, international pariah, and now, exploited author.

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