I know ghost writing is a common term, but it sounds kind of creepy when you use it in reference to O.J. Simpsons banned, then leaked, book, If I Did It. According Page Six, Simpson never even told a ghost writer what to put in the book, and his only involvement was to ensure that he would get paid for lending his name and image to the project.
“O.J. told me [ReganBooks publisher] Judith Regan approached him and said to him, ‘Do you mind if we write a book and put your name on it?’ I said, ‘I don’t care. You can write anything you want, as long as you pay me,’ ” said promoter Norm Pardo, who’s preparing a TV documentary about Simpson.
“O.J. would laugh, ‘Can you believe they’d pay me to say I wrote something I didn’t actually write?’ A ghostwriter largely based the book on court transcripts from Simpson’s trial,” Pardo told Page Six.
Sounds like a perfect cop-out to me, but for some reason O.J.’s lawyer is insisting that his client spent many hours working with the ghost writer and working out the story. Only O.J. would want to take credit for one of the most detestable works of “fiction” ever ghost written.
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He’s slightly less involved than I previously thought. Judith Regan is a mess.
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