From bad to worst, courtesy of News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch’s empire:
The O.J. Simpson book saga took another twist Tuesday when his former sister-in-law, Denise Brown, accused the media company behind the project of trying to buy her family’s silence for “millions of dollars.”
Simpson’s book, “If I did it,” was a sequel few had dared conceive, with Simpson — acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend but found liable for their deaths in civil court — describing how he would have killed them.
A spokesman for News Corp., owner of Fox Broadcasting and publisher HarperCollins, confirmed that the company had conversations with representatives of Nicole Brown Simpson’s and Ron Goldman’s families over the past week and that the families were offered profits from the planned Simpson book and television show, but he denied that it was hush money.
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