O.J. says advance spent as book removed from eBay - Yahoo! News

OS ANGELES (Reuters) - O.J. Simpson's scuttled book about the murder of his ex-wife attracted hot but brief bidding on eBay before being removed on Wednesday, while the former football star laughingly said he had been paid and had spent his advance.
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The book, "If I Did It," and an accompanying two-part television interview were dropped by media conglomerate News Corp. on Monday after an outcry from advertisers, booksellers and relatives of the dead.

The book and interview were touted as a hypothetical account of how Simpson would have killed ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. Simpson was reportedly paid a sum of $3.5 million in advance.

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