Did OJ Simpson Get $3.5 Million for Book?

It is being reported that OJ Simpson has been paid 3.5 million dollars for detailing the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The book is claimed to be titled "If I Did It" and includes a half hearted statement that the details of the stabbings are hypothetical.

The breaking source of this story is "The National Enquirer" leaving most to wonder if this is once again just some kind of sensational hype. If this story is accurate then the concept of OJ detailing the brutal murder of two people whom he claims he did not kill is as gruesome as a secret source claims the account of the actual act that OJ Simpson has created in this book.
As the question remains "is there really a book or not?"

The bigger question for many is bound to be why would OJ Simpson whom has vowed many times that there would be no way he would pay off his civil suit to the families of former wife Nicole or Ronald Goldman make a deal in which the majority of his earning would be taken to help pay off these suits? Maybe this is simply his way of thumbing his nose at the Brown and Goldman families whom OJ Simpson has clearly shown his distain for many times over the years. If it is a way of thumbing his nose; it is truly as brutal to those families as the murders of their loved ones were.

In 1998 Celia Farber of "Esquire" wrote and article after following Simpson for months. While he never granted her an official interview he did speak with her and when all was said and done she was left wondering if he even knew for sure anymore if he had committed the crime or not. In one statement made to Farber Simpson states "Let's say I committed this crime ... Even if I did do this, it would have been because I loved her very much, right?"

Was that the confession of a guilty man or was it an innocent man tired of dealing with the press and the questions about his former wife's murder in which he had been acquitted? Was that his way of explaining his actions? This is a rather odd statement for an innocent man. Only OJ Simpson knows the truth and America still wonders exactly what that might be.

For more than eleven years Simpson has arrogantly denied guilt in this case and yet he pens a book that details a hypothetical recreation of the murder? What kind of mind does that? What kind of father does that? Is he that arrogant? Is he really that callous? It's hard to fathom any father writing something of the sort about the murder of the woman with whom he has children. Then again, OJ has a habit of doing things that shock the American public.

Even more frightening than OJ Simpson recreating the murder of two people whom he was accused of killing is the realization that if The National Enquirer is accurate the general public will devour this book.

Our morbid curiosity will get the best of many as they shell out whatever amount is required to purchase this book and again the debate of "did he or didn't he" will heat up. Again, OJ Simpson will bask in the glory of himself and proclaim his innocence as he explains whatever twisted reason he had for writing a hypothetical scenario of his former wife's death. He will be both America's hero and villain at the same time while the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman fight to maintain some kind of dignity for their loved one's memory.

OJ Simpson will have to answer for his action to a higher power at some point if he did kill Nicole and Ron but its doubtful the rest of the world will ever have a definitive answer to the question "did he do it?"

If OJ did it he is safe from ever paying the price for this crime due to double jeopardy. If he didn't do it then he has the satisfaction of knowing he is innocent. Either way two people had their lives cut short; two families will never be the same without them and their killer, whomever that might be still walks free among us.