14 DAY TRIAL // Though he's currently staying at the Nevada Lovelock Correctional Center as part of his jail time, OJ Simpson isn't getting any good news from outside. The former athlete has just found out that he's lost his South Florida mansion because of unpaid taxes.
The worst part is that OJ is supposed to get out of jail sometime after 2015, as he serves what remained of his punishment in jail. Up until today, he had something to look forward to when the day of his release came, but now he'd better make plans for a hotel room, because his home went on the auction block.
Radar reports that his 4-bedroom Miami home has been auctioned before in 2013 when the ex-football player owed close to a million in unpaid property taxes. By a miraculous twist of fate, the home remained unsold because the original buyer failed to come up with the money which was a little over half a million dollars.
Under these circumstances, the home went on the auction block again, hoping to find a new owner. The court documents indicate that J.P. Morgan Chase Bank signed over possession of the home in Florida to a limited liability company under the name of Global Rental E&P in mid-May.
Now, all that Simpson can do is take his mind off the mansion he called home for almost a decade before being sentenced to prison in Nevada in 2008.
Not that reports from inside are any better. Previous news spoke that the disgraced athlete found out he was diagnosed with brain cancer and that he also went on a hunger strike to get an early release. There was also some indication that he later turned desperate and lost his will to live when an appeal to free him went unanswered.
Simpson remains behind bars for the failed armed robbery and kidnapping of a couple of sports memorabilia collectors he met up in a Las Vegas hotel room. At the time, Simpson was trying to take back some of his most valuable sports memorabilia but ended up being arrested, tried and jailed.
And although he was found not guilty of murder charges in 1997 for the presumed murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown and friend Ronald Goldman, he was ordered by a judge to pay several tens of millions of dollars to the victim's families.
The reason he purchased his home in Florida was that the state has a law that protects a primary residence from being seized to pay off a civil judgment. Sadly, he neglected the property taxes and now he's lost the home too.