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Newsweek got its hands on the crucial "confession" chapter of If I Did It, the kiboshed publishing fiasco that allegedly contained O.J. Simpson's answer to the $880,000 question of how he might have executed the murders of his ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman. (Not obtained were the heavily padded book's other, less controversial chapters, such as "Quick n' Easy Dinners for the Bachelor Dad," and "Lower Your Handicap the O.J. Way!") Newsweek reporter Mark Miller, who covered the original trial, summarizes O.J.'s account:
He parks in the dark alley behind her condo and dons the knit wool cap and gloves he keeps handy to ward off the chill on the golf course. He also has a knife in the Bronco, protection against L.A. "crazies." He intends to scare her. He enters through a broken back gate—he's told her a "million times" to get the buzzer and latch fixed—and encounters Goldman, who is returning the glasses of Nicole's mother, Juditha. She had left them at Mezzaluna, where the Brown family dined after Sydney's recital and where Goldman is a waiter. [...]
Simpson writes that his ex-wife came at him like a "banshee." She loses her balance and falls hard, her head cracking against the ground. Goldman assumes a karate stance, further angering Simpson. He dares the younger man to fight. Then, in the book, Simpson pulls back. He writes, "Then something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can't tell you exactly how."
Perhaps, then, the book might have been more accurately titled, Look—I Did It, But I Can't Tell Exactly How My Harmlessly Showing Up To My Ex-Wife's House To Scare The Shit Out Of Her With A Knife Led To A Double Murder. The article, containing the rest of the chapter summary, is here. Read it, comforted by the knowledge that neither O.J., nor any demon-eyed Fox reality execs, will earn their platinum pitchforks by profiting directly from your morbid curiosity.
UPDATE: In an interview with the AP, Simpson claims the chapter leaked is a "fictional creation" written by a ghostwriter.
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