Lawsuit: Son Is Squatting at OJ Simpson's House

OJ's estate is suing Justin Simpson over alleged scheme to shield house from creditors
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 29, 2025 8:27 AM CST
Lawsuit: Son Is Squatting at OJ Simpson's House
The home of OJ Simpson on Thursday, April 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.   (AP Photo/Ian Maule)

In death, as in life, OJ Simpson continues to inspire legal battles. The latest involves the Las Vegas house where the football great died in April, and the son who his estate says is living there illegally. It goes a little like this, per the Las Vegas Review Journal:

  • The house: 341 Arbour Garden Ave. is a 2,900-square-foot home that sold for $795,000 to Primary Holdings LLC in August 2022. The LLC is owned exclusively by Simpson's son, Justin Simpson, and took out a $636,000 mortgage to buy the home. OJ Simpson made all mortgage and utility payments on the home, as well as the down payment. He died in the home in April.

  • The beef: Malcolm LaVergne, the special administrator in charge of OJ Simpson's estate, says that Justin Simpson has improperly taken possession of the property and has lived there since his father's death. Further, he claims that Primary Holdings was "the owner in name only," in a scheme designed to dodge OJ Simpson's creditors after his death. Those creditors include the IRS and the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, Justin Simpson's mother, reports NBC News. The suit is against Primary Holdings.
  • The beef, II: LaVergne claims that Justin Simpson refuses to either turn the house over to his father's estate or reimburse the estate for the money his father invested in it. "I think it's because he's very selfish," LaVergne says. "And I think it was foolish of him to do that."
  • From Justin Simpson: There's been no comment.
  • LaVergne's bottom line: "Either Justin writes me a check for what was put down for the property and the increase in the value, the equity of it, which is probably now roughly about a quarter of a million dollars, or he can title the property to me and let me figure out what to do with the property."
  • More on the house: TMZ has this photo gallery of the interior of the house, which gets a little macabre at times.
(More OJ Simpson stories.)

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