O.J. Simpson is literally losing his house; while doing time in The Big House- and I don’t mean Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.
The 64-year-old former Buffalo Bills and “Naked Gun” movie series star is currently serving a 9-33-year prison term in relation to a 2007 armed confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. Simpson was convicted of numerous charges including kidnapping and armed robbery. While he’s doing time in the joint, the financial types are going after his home.
From the Huffington Post:
Miami-Dade Circuit Court records show that JPMorgan Chase filed for foreclosure in September on the four-bedroom, four-bath house south of downtown Miami. Simpson’s attorney has since filed a motion to dismiss the case, but there has been no further action since November.
Simpson bought the 4,233-square-foot house in 2000 for $575,000, property records show. Its current assessed value is $478,401, with property taxes of about $9,000. The 2011 taxes were paid in December.
Simpson is fighting this just like he’s fighting his conviction from Vegas. He maintains his innocence in both of these situations just like he claims to be innocent for the double murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Simpson was essentially the first “reality star” ever as his trial was of course the first news event to ever dominate the national collective attention on such totalitarian scope.
He was of course acquitted in the criminal case, but a civil jury later ordered Simpson to pay $33.5 million for Goldman’s wrongful death. The attorney for Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, said Monday the bankruptcy case played directly into the Simpson foreclosure.
“No surprise at all,” said David J. Cook, the Goldman attorney in San Francisco who has spent years trying to collect the judgment.
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