The Kardashians documented Kim Kardashian tricking O.J. Simpson‘s estate into letting her buy her late father’s bible.
During the Thursday, November 20, episode of The Kardashians, Kim, 45, revealed that Robert Kardashian’s bible was now in her possession.
“If anyone was wondering if this is the bible that O.J. Simpson’s estate auctioned, you best believe it was me [who bought it],” she explained. “My dad’s bible that he had given to O.J. was up for auction and I contacted the attorney for O.J.’s estate to offer to buy it without having to go through the auction.”
Kim didn’t let some roadblocks stop her from acquiring the item.
“It was obviously to drive up more sales for the auction, I get the game but I definitely don’t want to be used in that situation,” she said. “We used an alias to bid on the bible so that my name wouldn’t be traced back to it.”
In a previous episode, Kim got a call about her offer for the bible, which she wanted to acquire for Khloé Kardashian.
“There is the bible that my dad gave O.J. after the murders happened — but before he went into prison — and he brought it to prison with him,” Kim recalled about O.J.’s legal troubles. “It’s just really special. Khloé saw it on the Internet and then sent it to me and was, like, ‘Oh my God, this bible is going for auction. We have to get it.’”
Kim wanted to surprise Khloé with the sentimental gift. When Kim offered O.J. ‘s estate $15,000 as the initial offer, the news was leaked.
“It’s just so nuts. It really sucks and I would have negotiated. We were going to go [up to] $30,000. I guess I had a little too much faith in humanity for a minute there,” she noted. “We have to win this. This is really important to me. We have to bid.”
Despite Kim’s dedication, a message on the screen read, “The executor to O.J. Simpson’s estate told TMZ he could not sell the bible to Kim because he already contractually agreed to auction it, under court order.”
The late athlete was arrested and subsequently charged in 1994 with the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. In one of the most talked-about verdicts of all time, O.J. was famously acquitted of the murders in 1995, and was found liable for Ron and Nicole’s deaths in a civil trial three years later.
Robert Kardashian was O.J.’s friend and on his legal team. He also reportedly wrote a handwritten message in the bible, which was dated June 18, 1994.
Mourning the family patriarch. The Kardashian family has opened up over the years about the painful loss of Robert Kardashian. The late attorney, who shared Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob with ex-wife Kris Jenner, died of esophageal cancer in 2003 — a devastating loss for all four of his children and his ex-wife. (Robert and […]
“O.J., this book will help,” reports claimed earlier this year about the bible’s contents. “God loves and he will speak to you with his words. Read this book everyday. God has a definite plan for your life. You are his child and he will use you again. I love you and God loves you.”
Robert died in September 2003 following a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 59. Simpson, meanwhile, died at the age of 76 from prostate cancer in April 2024. A source later exclusively told Us Weekly that the Kardashians kept their distance from O.J. before his passing.
“[It seemed like] they were all terrified of Simpson and were united in keeping track of him for their own safety,” an insider said in April 2024, adding that it was clear that many “still considered O.J. a definite, unpredictable threat to the safety of them and their families.”
None of the Kardashians spoke out after O.J.’s death.
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