SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday turned down a legal move that sought to force O.J. Simpson to turn over profits from autographs to satisfy a $70 million-plus civil judgment for the 1994 killings of the former football star’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg denied the request on grounds that Goldman’s father, Fred, cannot identify who is paying Simpson.
The ruling was made quickly after the request was made by Goldman family attorney David Cook.
Simpson was acquitted of two counts of murder in the 1994 slayings, but a civil court jury found him liable for wrongful death and ordered him to pay $33.5 million, which has more than doubled over two decades.
Fred Goldman has hounded Simpson for years and Cook contends the former football star has never willingly paid a cent of the court order.
“Mr. Simpson has sought to subvert this wrongful death judgment by his abject refusal to pay, much less accept personal responsibility,” Cook said in court papers.
Simpson sold autographs shortly after his release from a Nevada prison in October to pay legal bills and has no interest in signing memorabilia, one of his lawyers, Malcolm LaVergne, said in court papers objecting to any order relinquishing his right to publicity.
Goldman and Cook have “attempted to drag Mr. Simpson into court every time they hear a rumor, see something on television, or read in an internet news posting, a mere vague allegation involving Mr. Simpson’s commercial exploitation of himself,” attorney Ronald Slates wrote in court papers on behalf of Simpson.
While most of the court award has been unpaid, Fred Goldman has been able to seize some of the Pro Football Hall of Famer’s assets, including video game royalties and the rights to the book “If I Did It,” a ghostwritten account in which Simpson tells how he might have killed his ex-wife and Ron Goldman.
Goldman was also able to acquire memorabilia Simpson claimed he was trying to take back when he led five men, two with guns, into a Las Vegas casino hotel in September 2007 to confront two sports collectibles dealers.
Simpson, 70, served nine years in Nevada state prison for armed robbery and assault with a weapon in an ill-fated bid to retrieve memorabilia.

The man who was found shot in a vehicle in Pittsburgh’s Larimer neighborhood Monday night has been identified.

The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said Tyqueon Goins, 20, of Pittsburgh, was discovered by officers with multiple gunshot wounds on Meadow Street between Tripod Way and Finley Street.

He was pronounced dead at 9:21 p.m.

Initial reports indicate the incident may be gang-related. After receiving ShotSpotter alerts, Zone 5 police officers responded to the area about 8:15 p.m.

Police continue to investigate and No arrests have been made. .

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 412-323-7800.

A law firm hired by the Humane Society of the United States is conducting an internal investigation. They’ve identified three complaints of sexual harassment by chief executive Wayne Pacelle and found that senior female leaders said their warnings about his conduct went unheeded.

The investigation also found the nonprofit agency, one of the country’s biggest animal charities, had offered settlements to three other workers who said they were demoted or dismissed after reporting Pacelle’s alleged behavior, according to the Humane Society memo.

Fiat Chrysler executives lavished more than $1.5 million in gifts and prohibited payments to UAW leaders in what federal prosecutors say was an effort to give the automaker a better position at the bargaining table.

A $30,000 party for one UAW official that included $7,000 worth of cigars and $3,000 in specially labeled bottles of wine were a couple of the payoffs.

In nearly every instance, the money came through the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center using money provided by FCA. It’s been alleged by Federal prosecutors that the gifts violated the federal Labor Management Relations Act and were intended to “obtain benefits, concessions and advantages for FCA in the negotiation, implementation and administration of the collective bargaining agreements between FCA and the UAW.”

Won’t you be my neighbor?

TriStar Pictures has the distribution rights to the film “You Are My Friend”, according to Variety, which is based on the real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. In the book, Junod is a journalist who is assigned to write a profile piece on Mr. Rogers.

Tom Hanks will play Mr. Rogers in the motion picture version of his story .