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O.J. Simpson’s Estate Auctioning Heisman, Golf Clubs to Pay Goldman Family

  • Simpson died in April at age 76 of prostate cancer. 
  • Other items from his life were sold earlier this year.
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

O.J. Simpson’s golf clubs, SUV, driver’s license and even his Heisman Trophy will all be headed for auction in the near future. 

On Friday, a Nevada probate judge agreed to a proposal from the late, infamous football star’s estate to auction off “unique and high-end personal property” to help pay a portion of the money owed to the family of Ron Goldman, who died alongside Simpson’s wife, Nicole, in 1994. 

Simpson was charged with their murders but acquitted the next year in an eight-month trial that dominated the headlines and surpassed his football fame. Three years later he was found liable for their deaths in a civil suit, but he died in April at age 76 having paid little of the court-ordered $33.5 million. 

Thomas Grover, who represents Simpson’s estate attorney Malcolm LaVergne, told Front Office Sports that the auction date was “going to be very soon” but not determined yet.

“We’ve got a replacement Heisman trophy that he kept in his living room,” Grover says. “We’ve got his golf clubs.”

The ruling came a day after Goldman’s father, Fred, filed a creditor claim in Clark Country District Court for $117 million against Simpson’s estate. 

The $117 million figure comes from three renewed judgments against Simpson from 2015, 2016, and 2022, plus interest. Statutory interest for a two-year span from June 2022 to July 2024 accounted for roughly $21 million. Goldman is also claiming an amount of accrued interest worth more than $16 million. 

In the days after Simpson’s passing, LaVergne vowed the Goldman family would “get zero, nothing.” But he reversed course and later told the L.A. Times he would “handle this thing in a calm and dispassionate manner.”

It’s unknown whether other items from Simpson’s estate will go to auction or what value the known ones will command. 

His recent possessions unrelated to the estate have sold for various amounts at auction. 

In April, an expired credit card of Simpson’s sold for $10,675 including fees, while an expired driver’s license sold for $6,710 in the same month. In May, a signed copy of the dance recital program that Simpson attended June 12, 1994, the night of the murders, sold at auction for $4,446. 

Other Simpson items will also go to auction later this year, including the white 1993 Ford Bronco that Simpson was in the back seat of during the infamous low-speed chase through Los Angeles, which became a defining moment in television history. The car has been on loan for display at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. The Bronco is owned by Michael Gilbert, who is Simpson’s former agent, and two friends of Al Cowlings, who drove the Bronco during the chase. The trio is asking for at least $1.5 million in a public or private sale, according to Barron’s

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