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 More than twenty years after his 1995 acquittal for the murder
of his ex-wife and a friend, Fox television is airing a two-hour
special on Sunday called "O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?"
The show will broadcast for the first time a lengthy 2006 video
interview with Simpson in which he talks about his marriage to
Nicole Brown Simpson and gives a hypothetical account of events
on the night in June 1994 when she and her friend Ron Goldman
were murdered at her Los Angeles home.
Simpson's 13-month trial and acquittal still captivates
Americans and was the subject of an award-winning 2016 TV series
and a documentary.
"We're taking you into the mind of O.J. Simpson, where nobody
has ever been, at least on television," Fox executive producer
Terence Wrong told reporters on Thursday.
Wrong called the tapes, which also include Simpson's account of
how he broke news of their mother's death to his two children,
"riveting television."
"He sucks you in, O.J. He is charismatic and charming but at the
same time there is something a little manic and a little
disturbing," Wrong added.
Simpson, 70, was released from prison in November 2017 after
serving nine years for an unrelated botched robbery in Las
Vegas.
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He currently lives in Las Vegas and his attorney did not return a
call for comment on the program. Nicole Brown-Simpson's family could
not be reached for comment, but Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, said
the family welcomed the airing of the tapes.
"While justice has eluded our family, Fox Entertainment enables
everyone to make their own judgment," Goldman said in a statement.
The tapes formed the basis of a book called "If I Did It" that was
scrapped before publication in 2006 after an outcry from booksellers
and relatives of the two victims.
At the time, Simpson said a chapter in which he gave an account of
how he might have killed Goldman and Brown Simpson was purely
hypothetical.
Wrong said Sunday's program was not aimed at uncovering new evidence
but was a contribution to the Simpson story.
"This case is part of the social history of the United States for
better or worse. It delves into issues of celebrity, privilege,
domestic violence, race, inter-racial marriage," he said.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Chris Reese)
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