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He’s only been out of prison for a few months, but it didn’t take long for O.J. Simpson to start raking it in!
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According to the Daily Mail, Sacha Baron Cohen, the brilliant mind behind comedic personas Borat and Ali G, among others, reportedly paid the disgraced former football player more than $20,000 to appear in his upcoming movie.
Baron Cohen apparently wore a wig and black thick-rimmed glasses and attempted to meet up with Simpson inside a Las Vegas hotel room, a production source told the Mail.
“O.J. would not even get in the hotel room until he was paid a sackload of cash,” the source said. “There was no way Sacha could have got O.J. into the room without paying money.”
In a brief comment to the U.K. paper, Simpson declined to reveal any details about the film.
“I know him well. I met him. Nice guy,” Simpson said of Baron Cohen.
But not everyone is happy about the arrangement.
After Simpson was acquitted of criminal charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994, a civil jury found Simpson liable for the slayings and ordered him to pay the families $25 million, on top of $8.5 million to the Goldmans in compensatory charges.
“If money changed hands [between Baron Cohen and Simpson], then all of the money paid should go to Ron’s father, Fred. There is a legal and moral imperative here,” said collection lawyer David Cook, a lawyer representing the Goldman family.
“Nicole and Ron are two human beings who were brutally murdered. This is not a joke, nor is it entertainment. If Sacha makes this a comedic effort, [Simpson’s] victims will be personified as a joke. Shame on him,” said Brown’s sister Tanya Brown.
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