An attorney from California has asserted that O.J. Simpson, who passed away in 2024, left unpaid legal fees amounting to over $1.1 million.
The lawyer, Ronald Slates, initiated legal action on Friday against Malcolm LaVergne, who is managing Simpson’s estate. As reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Slates has represented Simpson on multiple occasions since 2006.
According to a detailed 56-page complaint, Simpson accumulated $1,147,373 in unpaid legal services, as outlined by Slates’ attorney, Michael Pruitt.
This lawsuit follows an earlier agreement this year, where LaVergne consented to pay Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, approximately $58 million, nearly three decades after the civil case against Simpson.
CrimeOnline previously reported that on June 12, 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J.’s ex-wife, were tragically found murdered outside her Los Angeles home. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murder charges by a jury on October 3, 1995.
However, in 1997, a California court held Simpson civilly responsible for the wrongful deaths of Ron and Nicole, following a civil lawsuit.
Pruitt stated that Slates had represented Simpson on various legal matters, with the assumption that the fees would be paid.
The majority of the legal fees have never been paid, according to the lawsuit. In November, LaVergne allegedly rejected the claim.
On Friday, LaVergne told the Review-Journal that the matter would be handled in an “ordinary course,” as with Simpson’s other legal matters.
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[Featured Photo: FILE – In this May 14, 2013, file photo, O.J. Simpson appears at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. On Friday, June 18, 2021, Simpson’s lawyer says he’ll keep fighting recent court orders in Nevada that the former football star owes least $60 million in judgments stemming from the 1994 killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman. (Ethan Miller via AP, Pool, File)]
