Smithsonian says it doesn't want O.J. Simpson's suit

The Smithsonian Museum says it doesn't want the suit O.J. Simpson wore when he was acquitted of murder charges -- scuttling a compromised reached Monday in the long-running custody case.

"The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will not be collecting O.J. Simpson's suit," the museum said in a statement. "The decision was made by the museum's curators together with the director."

Fred Goldman, Ron's father, filed the lawsuit against Simpson and his former agent, Mike Gilbert, who allegedly has possession of the suit. In 1997, a civil jury found Simpson liable for the two deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ relatives. Fred Goldman is still trying to collect the money. 

On Monday, Gilbert and Goldman agreed to donate the suit to the Smithsonian Institution. It's unclear what will happen to the suit now.

Simpson, 62, is in jail, serving time for a botched robbery in Las Vegas to allegedly retrieve some of his personal sports memorabilia.

-- Shelby Grad

Photo: O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges in 1997. Credit: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times

Comments

[larry]

why would anyone want the stuff. Its bad enough that Hitler items have value let alone a social misfit like OJ

[AMERICA HASNT CHANGED FOR US]

I'M REALLY TIRED OF THE OJ THING.I'M NOT SAYING HE DID IT OR NOT A JURY MADE OF EVERYDAY CITIZENS LIKE ME AND YOU SAID THEY WASNT SURE 100% SO HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE CASE HE WAS CONVICTED ON WELL LETS SEE A FEW MONTHS LATER THEY SAID SOME OF THE STUFF DID BELONG TO HIM...HMMMM,BUT LETS TAKE ROBERT BLAKE, NOONE TALKS ABOUT HIM, HIS CASE WAS OPEN AND SHUT, OH MY GOD,HE WAS FOUND LIABLE TO PAY IN COURT, DO YOU HERE ANYTHING ABOUT HIM?THIS IS AMERICA,THE SAME AMERICA THAT DIDNT WANT BLACK TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH WHITES,THE SAME AMERICA THAT DIDNT WANT TO TEACH CERTAIN PEOPLE TO READ, NOW WHAT COLOR ARE THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THIS DECISION TO NOT LET HIS SUIT IN A MUSEUM...HMMM ITS A HISTORIC MUSEUM NOT A COURT HOUSE, WHETHER THE SUIT IS THERE OR NOT ITS STILL HISTORY(THE TRAIL)SO LETS NOT CALL IT A HISTORY MUSEUM CALL IT A MUSEUM THAT HAS COLOR BARRIERS, AND IT DEPENDS ON COLOR AND NOT HISTORY!!!!OH AND LETS NOT PUT IT ON THE CRIME EITHER BECAUSE JACK THE RIPPER IS IN A MUSEUM..AND AS YOU KNOW HE DIDNT JUST KILL 1 WOMAN BUT SEVERAL!!!!!

[william mccotter]

that the best news i heard in a long time we are proud of you.

[ed]

haha. Can't make money off of it now Goldman.

[kat]

I applaud the Smithsonian for their decision. That is a part of history that ought not be remembered.

[USA]

Just burn it. God bless America.

[jt]

I wonder if they will pay for his Nevada prison jumpsuit...

[Really?]

caps lock makes your arguement valid.

[HArry making it fun]

How ironic, one is stupid and the other greedy. Will it ever stop ?

[dingo8mybaby]

Why don't they put it on O.J. and then burn it? God bless America.

[jeff]

OK, so maybe OJ is guilty- does that warrant having ones image and accomplishments being extinguished for all time? If we're adding up crimes of the famous, then well, let's remove the 'insurgents and terrorists, colonizers and usurpers' named Washington and Jackson from our currency. The pettiness of the Goldman's is appalling (stealing someones very image? Suing over a suit?), and since the trial, the pervasive odor of racism has been lost on no one that's not White. It's akin to Napoleon shooting off the nose and full lips of the sphinx to erase African influence from history. Attempting to make someone a non-person is more troubling than a legal not guilty verdict. Has anyone ever been acquited of a murder then be civily charged with "Causing the person's death" after not being proven to have killed them or causing another to do so? America does not wear crucifixion well.