O.J.: 'If I Did It' book not a confession to murder
Associated Press
MIAMI -- O.J. Simpson says his ill-fated "If I Did It" book was not a confession and that the title wasn't his idea.
In a telephone interview Wednesday with WTPS-AM radio, Simpson said that he told the writer he had "nothing to confess." He also said that the reported $3.5 million advance payment was inaccurate.
Although he wouldn't specify how much he was paid, he did say it was a "windfall" that would go mainly to pay bills and support his children.
Earlier this week, News Corp. canceled the book and a TV interview. Officials with the publisher have said that all copies of the book will be destroyed.
Nationwide, the book was billed as a thinly-veiled confession by Simpson to the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson was acquitted in 1995.
In the radio interview, Simpson was asked point-blank if he killed the pair.
"No matter what everybody wants to say, I didn't do it," Simpson said.
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