It’s all about the money.
A shameless O.J. Simpson admitted in a 2004 videotaped conversation that he’d do or say anything to make a buck.
“If it’s something for me to promote, I’d go on Geraldo’s show. I don’t give a f- – -,” the disgraced gridiron great boasts in a documentary interview that has never aired.
“Just as long as you’re talkin’ about me and helping me make some money – ha ha ha!”
The comments, taped by Florida producer Norman Pardo, come to light as Simpson has penned a book, titled “If I Did It,” for which a third party was reportedly paid $3.5 million.
Published by Judith Regan’s ReganBooks, the book “hypothetically describes” how the 1994 murders of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman “would have been committed,” according to the Fox network.
Pardo, 44, was in a Miami recording studio in March 2004, discussing a music-video project, when Simpson joined them, Pardo told The Post.
After a chatty Simpson arrived and plopped himself on the couch, Pardo flipped on his camera.
Pardo asked Simpson, a frequent target of the shock jock Howard Stern’s ridicule, if he would ever appear on Stern’s radio show again.
Sure, said Simpson, “if I have something to promote and I can make some money from it.”
Later, Simpson said he’d never waste his time “worrying about what these f- – – ing people think.
“I’m as calcified as I can possibly be. I don’t give a s- – – what anybody says.”
“What is it . . . Katharine Hepburn says? ‘Long as you spell my name right . . . there’s no such thing as bad ink,’ ” he says.
Simpson goes on to say that Stern has a fascination with Simpson’s manhood – or, as the “Naked Gun” actor calls it, his “johnson,” says Pardo.
Pardo, who traveled with Simpson over a four-year period and captured 70 hours of footage, believes Simpson never does anything only for money.
“He does it because he’s self-destructive. He’s a walking time bomb,” Pardo said.
Pardo can recall only one venture that seemed to scare Simpson off: In 2002, a cable network offered Simpson a few million dollars to appear in a pay-per-view special in which he’d take a lie-detector test.
“But O.J. just said, ‘Let’s drop that subject,’ and never pursued the idea again,” said Pardo. (p. 9 Metro)