So I promised you some revealing stuff and here it is. I had no input in this, nor did I offer any guidance. I wanted the real dirt and I got it. The person who did this is cited at the end of the article. Still don’t believe me? Fine. Then just go on thinking our justice system actually works and see how far that gets you. I hear OJ’s looking for another golf buddy.
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O.J. reveals his motivation for writing If I Did It in Chapter One, when he boasts, “This is one story the whole world got wrong.” His need to get the upper hand, indeed to ‘control’ his story – as he wants to control everything in his life – is even more compelling to him than the money he was paid. But this need to show that he is smarter and better, that comes from a deep psychological insecurity, is his undoing – as he inadvertently reveals more in the book than he meant to do.
Naturally, the most riveting chapter is Chapter Six, The Night In Question. O.J. admits to being “pissed at Nicole” after their daughter’s dance recital, where Nicole ignored him. He was clearly also jealous, complaining of Nicole’’s sexy clothes, “You should have seen the skirt she was wearing. She thinks she’s still a teenager.” He felt abandoned by the women in his life: Nicole, his girlfriend Paula, even a Raiders cheerleader he tried to reconnect with but who didn’t answer her phone. This fear of abandonment and rage at the women who abandoned him, beginning with his mother, is the theme of O.J.’s life – and the orchestrator of all his behavior.
He describes Nicole as “a complete stranger to me” and told himself, “That woman is going to be the death of me” – both thoughts making it easier to kill her. He felt “old” and “whipped” and blamed Nicole for sapping the energy it took for him to be “somebody” again. O.J.’s rage built as he recalled his father’s “whuppings”, his parents’ separation, his having peeked in the window at Nicole having sex with Keith, and his humiliation over the growing number of people who had seen or heard about Nicole having sex with countless men – seeming to prefer them to O.J. himself.
O.J. launches into a “hypothetical” description of the crime – including an accomplice named “Charlie”. It is left up to us now to decide whether Charlie is O.J.’s alter ego of conscience, or whether there really was an accomplice that night. At the time of the trial, there were underground rumors that O.J. had had an accomplice. Some of these rumors named his son, Jason, by his first wife. It was rumored that Jason never liked Nicole because he blamed her for taking O.J. away from his mom. Whether or not there was a real life accomplice, O.J.’s book will re-ignite such suspicions.
About Dr. Lieberman: If anyone can analyze O.J., it’s Dr. Carole Lieberman. As the case unfolded, she was the trial analyst for E!, and a frequent commentator on other broadcast and cable news outlets, as well as on radio and in print. In her best-selling book, Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them and When to Leave Them, O.J. exemplified the Prince of Darkness type whose possessive jealousy would end in – sometimes fatal – violence. And, when Dr. Lieberman visited the L.A. County Jail to perform a forensic evaluation of another inmate, she got to observe O.J. first-hand.
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If you’re wondering how these fit into the manuscript, I’ll post some excerpts from the book later today or tomorrow.
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