The Kardashians documented Kim Kardashian‘s failed try at shopping for her late father's bible from O.J. Simpson‘s property — and revealed how a lot she was prepared to pay.
In the course of the Thursday, November 13, episode of The Kardashians, Kim, 45, bought a name about her supply for the bible, which she wished to accumulate for Khloé Kardashian.
“There's the bible that my dad gave O.J. after the murders occurred — however earlier than he went into jail — and he introduced it to jail with him,” Kim recalled about O.J.'s authorized troubles. “It's simply actually particular. Khloé noticed it on the Web after which despatched it to me and was, like, ‘Oh my God, this bible goes for public sale. We have now to get it.'”
Kim wished to shock Khloé with the sentimental reward. When Kim supplied O.J. ‘s property $15,000 because the preliminary supply, the information was leaked.
“It's simply so nuts. It actually sucks and I might have negotiated. We have been going to go [up to] $30,000. I suppose I had slightly an excessive amount of religion in humanity for a minute there,” she famous. “We have now to win this. That is actually necessary to me. We have now to bid.”
Regardless of Kim's dedication, a message on the display screen learn, “The executor to O.J. Simpson's property informed TMZ he couldn't promote the bible to Kim as a result of he already contractually agreed to public sale it, beneath court docket order.”
The late athlete was arrested and subsequently charged in 1994 with the homicide of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In one of the talked-about verdicts of all time, O.J. was famously acquitted of the murders in 1995, and was discovered answerable for Ron and Nicole's deaths in a civil trial three years later.
Robert Kardashian was O.J.'s good friend and on his authorized workforce. He additionally reportedly wrote a handwritten message within the bible, which was dated June 18, 1994.
Mourning the household patriarch. The Kardashian household has opened up through the years concerning the painful lack of Robert Kardashian. The late lawyer, who shared Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob with ex-wife Kris Jenner, died of esophageal most cancers in 2003 — a devastating loss for all 4 of his youngsters and his ex-wife. (Robert and […]
“O.J., this ebook will assist,” stories claimed earlier this yr concerning the bible's contents. “God loves and he'll communicate to you along with his phrases. Learn this ebook on a regular basis. God has a particular plan to your life. You might be his youngster and he'll use you once more. I really like you and God loves you.”
Robert died in September 2003 following a battle with esophageal most cancers. He was 59. Simpson, in the meantime, died on the age of 76 from prostate most cancers in April 2024. A supply later completely informed Us Weekly that the Kardashians stored their distance from O.J. earlier than his passing.
“[It seemed like] they have been all afraid of Simpson and have been united in protecting observe of him for their very own security,” an insider stated in April 2024, including that it was clear that many “nonetheless thought of O.J. a particular, unpredictable risk to the protection of them and their households.”
Not one of the Kardashians spoke out after O.J.'s dying.
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