PUBLISHED: 13:07 EST, 12 February 2014 | UPDATED: 13:07 EST, 12 February 2014
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- Sources: OJ is so depressed ‘he wants to sit down in a corner and die’
- He ‘wants to kill himself so that his children can get his money’
- The 66-year-old, who is serving kidnapping, assault and robbery sentence in Nevada, is eligible for parole in three years
OJ Simpson has gone on hunger strike in prison, saying, ‘I used to live my way, and now I’m going to die my way,’ sources have claimed.
The jailed former football star, who is serving out a kidnapping, assault and robbery sentence in a Nevada prison, is reportedly so depressed that he wants to ‘just sit down in a corner and die’.
Sources spoke to the National Enquirer about Simpson’s hunger strike and worsening health. His attorneys have yet to respond to a request for comment.
The source claimed that Simpson, 66, who is eligible for parole in 2017 after having an appeal for a new trial turned down last year, wanted to die so that his children would be able to get his millions.
He wants his fortune, which is largely stored in his pension account, to go to daughters Sydney, 28, and Arnelle, 45, and sons Justin, 25, and Jason, 43 – and he’s worried they won’t get it.
Although Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994, Goldman’s family were awarded $33 million in a wrongful death civil suit.
‘He can’t give the kids his money while he’s alive without the Goldman family laying claim to it,’ the source told the Enquirer. ‘The only way OJ figures he can leave his kids the millions is to kill himself.’
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