Seventeen years after her brother Ron’s brutal murder, Kim Goldman wrote to O.J. Simpson in jail.
“I’m sure it’s really weird to be getting a letter but you’ve been on my mind recently,” Goldman, 42, wrote in 2011. “I realize our few interactions have not been great — but I am wondering if you would grant me a visitation, to let me get to know the real you.”
It was a stunning act of forgiveness, and it was just that — an act. Her real goal was to savor the sight of the disgraced gridiron great humiliated in prison, she writes in her memoir “Can’t Forgive” (BenBella Books), out now.
Simpson, 66, was convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery in Las Vegas in 2008, 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of murder in the 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.
He was acquitted of murder, but was found liable for the deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million in restitution — of which less than 1 percent has been paid, Goldman alleges.
The bitter sibling wanted to “see the killer behind bars, behind a glass wall, handcuffed, escorted by prison guards.”
Simpson’s attorney at the time, Yale Galanter, didn’t think the sit-down was a good idea. He nixed the visit, Goldman writes, when she refused to sign a confidentiality agreement.