After a firestorm of criticism, News Corp. has reconsidered its plan to release a controversial O.J. Simpson book and television special, with chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch taking the extraordinary step of personally apologizing for the pain it might have caused the families of the victims of 1994 double murder.
"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," Murdoch said in a statement Monday. "We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson."
If I Did It, the book in which the former football star "hypothetically" discusses how he would have committed the murders if he had done them, was to be published Nov. 30 by ReganBooks, an imprint of News Corp.-owned HarperCollins Publishers. The publication was to have been promoted with a two-part, two-hour interview of Simpson by ReganBooks publisher Judith Regan that had been scheduled to air on News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting Co. over two nights, Nov. 27 and 29, the final night of the November sweep.
Brown-Simpson, Simpson's ex-wife, was slain along with her friend Goldman on June 12, 1994, at Brown-Simpson's home in Los Angeles. Simpson was tried and acquitted of their murders in 1995 but was later found liable for their deaths in a civil court and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victims' families.
"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," Murdoch said in a statement Monday. "We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson."
If I Did It, the book in which the former football star "hypothetically" discusses how he would have committed the murders if he had done them, was to be published Nov. 30 by ReganBooks, an imprint of News Corp.-owned HarperCollins Publishers. The publication was to have been promoted with a two-part, two-hour interview of Simpson by ReganBooks publisher Judith Regan that had been scheduled to air on News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting Co. over two nights, Nov. 27 and 29, the final night of the November sweep.
Brown-Simpson, Simpson's ex-wife, was slain along with her friend Goldman on June 12, 1994, at Brown-Simpson's home in Los Angeles. Simpson was tried and acquitted of their murders in 1995 but was later found liable for their deaths in a civil court and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victims' families.
- 11/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After a firestorm of criticism, News Corp. has reconsidered its plan to release a controversial O.J. Simpson book and television special, with chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch taking the extraordinary step of personally apologizing for the pain it might have caused the families of the victims of 1994 double murder.
"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," Murdoch said in a statement Monday. "We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson."
"If I Did It", the book in which the former football star "hypothetically" discusses how he would have committed the murders if he had done them, was to be published Nov. 30 by ReganBooks, an imprint of News Corp.-owned HarperCollins Publishers. The publication was to have been promoted with a two-part, two-hour interview of Simpson by ReganBooks publisher Judith Regan that had been scheduled to air on News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting Co. over two nights, Nov. 27 and 29, the final night of the November sweep.
Brown-Simpson, Simpson's ex-wife, was slain along with her friend Goldman on June 12, 1994, at Brown-Simpson's home in Los Angeles. Simpson was tried and acquitted of their murders in 1995 but was later found liable for their deaths in a civil court and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victims' families.
"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," Murdoch said in a statement Monday. "We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson."
"If I Did It", the book in which the former football star "hypothetically" discusses how he would have committed the murders if he had done them, was to be published Nov. 30 by ReganBooks, an imprint of News Corp.-owned HarperCollins Publishers. The publication was to have been promoted with a two-part, two-hour interview of Simpson by ReganBooks publisher Judith Regan that had been scheduled to air on News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting Co. over two nights, Nov. 27 and 29, the final night of the November sweep.
Brown-Simpson, Simpson's ex-wife, was slain along with her friend Goldman on June 12, 1994, at Brown-Simpson's home in Los Angeles. Simpson was tried and acquitted of their murders in 1995 but was later found liable for their deaths in a civil court and ordered to pay $33.5 million to the victims' families.
- 11/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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