Indianapolis Attorney Reacts To Canceled O.J. Simpson Book, Interview Deal

Eric Halvorson

O.J. Simpson's book and TV special have been canceled. "News Corporation," which owns the FOX network, planned to air the interview. It also owns the company that published the book.

News Corp's chairman, Rupert Murdoch, says the projects were "ill-advised." Others are much less diplomatic.

Simpson's book entitled "If I did it" inspired outrage from the Goldman family and from people across the country.

"I'm thrilled that the American public forced them to do what was right," Fred Goldman said.

Fred Goldman's son, Ron, was killed along with Simpson's wife, Nicole, in 1994.

Simpson always claimed he was innocent and the jury acquitted him.

But, he lost in a civil trial and was ordered to pay millions of dollars.

"We are elated at News Corp's decision to pull the book and pull the interview," Indianapolis Attorney Jonathan Polak said.

Polak represents the Goldman family. He's trying to help them collect on the civil judgment.

"We still have a great deal of legal work to do, to find out where the money went and why it went there," Polak said.

For now, he's grateful the Simpson story backlash forced News Corp to re-evaluate its plans, "Although they didn't do the right thing in the beginning they seem to have done the right thing now in pulling that."

"Unfortunately, we should not have been put through this insanity," Fred Goldman said.

And Polak says Simpson needs to know the Goldmans will never go away, "And we will continue to hound him and continue to seek justice against him for as long as he lives."

So, Polak says he and the Goldmans are planning more legal action.

He says they'll go after anyone from publishers, to producers, to lawyers who, they think, may have tried to hide Simpson's assets from the Goldmans as they try to collect the judgment.

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