Simpson: I Did Not Confess
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LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson says a chapter from his unpublished book that hypothesizes how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend was created mostly from a ghostwriter’s research and is not a confession.
“I’m saying it’s a fictional creation,” Mr. Simpson said yesterday in a telephone interview. “It has so many [factual] holes in it that anybody who knew anything about it would know that I didn’t write it.”
His comments came as Newsweek published a story for its current issue paraphrasing the chapter, called “The Night in Question,” which the magazine said it had obtained from an anonymous source. Mr. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman after a year-long trial. A civil jury later held him liable for the killings. Yesterday, Mr. Simpson again denied killing the couple. Mr. Simpson declined to provide a copy of the chapter to the Associated Press.
“I don’t have it,” he said. “I shredded everything I had about it, and I thought I shredded it from my memory.”
