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''If I Did It'' (2006 cancelled edition), retitled ''If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer'' (2007), is a book by ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves and, purportedly, by O. J. Simpson, in which Simpson allegedly puts forth a "hypothetical" description of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Simpson's former manager Norman Pardo told the ''Huffington Post'' Simpson was not involved in writing the book but rather accepted, against Pardo's advice, $600,000 from the ReganBooks and NewsCorp to say he had written it and conduct an interview. Simpson was acquitted of the murders in a criminal trial (''California v. Simpson'') but later was found financially liable in a civil trial. Although the original release of the book was canceled shortly after it was announced in November 2006, 400,000 physical copies of the original book were printed, and by June 2007, copies of the book had leaked online.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=OJ 'Did It' Manuscript Leaked Online )〕 The book was originally due to be published by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins, which was headed by editor and publisher Judith Regan. It was originally planned that the book would be promoted via a television special featuring an interview with Simpson on Fox Broadcasting Company. (Fox and HarperCollins are both owned by the News Corporation.) This special had the longer title, ''O. J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened''. Like the original release of the book, the special was canceled. In August 2007, a Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the book to the Goldman family to partially satisfy the civil judgment. The title of the book was changed to ''If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer'', and published by Beaufort Books. Comments were added to the original manuscript by the Goldman family, the book's ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, and journalist Dominick Dunne. The new cover design printed the word "If" greatly reduced in size compared with the other words, and placed it inside the "I". == Authorship == Norman Pardo, Simpson's former manager, told the ''Huffington Post'' the book was written by a ghostwriter without Simpson's involvement. Rather Simpson had accepted, against Pardo's advice, $600,000 dollars from the publisher ReganBooks and its parent company NewsCorp to say he had written the book and conduct an associated TV interview.〔 Pardo told the ''Huffington Post'' that Simpson had rationalized:〔 "'Hey, they offered me $600,000 not to dispute that I () the book.' He said, 'That's cash.' I said, 'They're going to think you wrote it.' He said, 'So? Everybody thinks I'm a murderer anyway. They're not going to change their mind just because of a book.'" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「If I Did It」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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