OJ Simpson allegedly had secret offshore accounts to avoid paying Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown’s families

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: According to reports, OJ Simpson might have died with millions stashed away in secret bank accounts to avoid paying the $100 million he owed to his alleged victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown's families.

Simpson's longtime friend Bruce Froming is heard admitting in a leaked audio recording obtained by The US Sun that he assisted the former NFL star in creating "offshore accounts".

The claim regarding the offshore accounts surfaced at the time when the Goldman family, having prevailed in a civil battle over the murder of their son Ron, was frantically searching for Simpson's earnings.

Bruce Froming helped OJ Simpson create 'offshore accounts'

OJ Simpson's friend Bruce Froming claimed he assisted the NFL star to "set up offshore accounts" in an attempt to avoid paying back the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown.

The audio features Froming—a collector of memorabilia whom Simpson robbed at gunpoint at the Las Vegas Palace Station in 2007—saying, "Nobody puts a gun in my f**king face."

"I stood up for the motherf***er while he was in jail, I stood up for him in the press, I stood up for him on the stand. I helped him set up his f**king offshore accounts. Don’t f**k with me. It’s not over. It’s not f**king over," Froming added.

Froming provided testimony against Simpson at the 2008 armed robbery trial. Later on, he declared that he had forgiven Simpson, and in a 2017 parole release hearing, he asserted that Simpson was a "good man".

Simpson—who died on Wednesday, April 10, from cancer—was obliged to pay the Goldman and Brown families $33.5 million in damages after they defeated him in a 1997 wrongful death civil suit. The amount increased to over $100 million with interest.

Simpson never gave the Goldmans or Browns any money personally, even though they benefited financially from his controversial book 'If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.'

The 76-year-old carried his debt to Goldman's family and his own children to his grave unpaid, so they will have to hire attorneys again to attempt to get money from his estate, assuming there is any.

OJ Simpson allegedly said he won't give a nickel to Ron Goldman's family

The audio recording now casts doubt on whether the former NFL player—nicknamed The Juice—ever told the truth about his financial circumstances while he was alive.

David Cook, the collection attorney for the Goldmans, revealed that he had heard several stories over the years about Simpson concealing his wealth.

"OJ Simpson has said, 'I will not give a godd**n nickel to Fred Goldman never, ever, ever', so if he's going to die of cancer - most people who die of cancer don't die tomorrow it takes a fair amount of time - so it would be my guess that he hid it very well so that when he dies, the Goldmans get nothing," Cook revealed.

"I'm not saying I know that, but dealing with OJ Simpson and hearing him saying 'I will not pay this guy a godd**n dime' when he was alive, I think he'd do the same thing when he's dead."

Despite the Goldmans hiring attorneys to pursue Simpson for years, he hardly made any progress toward paying off the debt. Since joining the Goldman family in 2008, attorney Cook has claimed he has never been able to locate any money.

"I've heard a lot of stories that OJ has money hidden away - I've been hearing that since back in 2008 and 2009 and lawyers have been looking for his money even before that," Cook said.

He continued: "Over the years I've had people calling me telling me they have stuff belonging to him in a storage facility or hidden here or there - we hear it all the time."

"There is still a judgment out of Los Angeles against him, this judgment is now worth $114 million. The only way we got any money from the judgement was through the 'If I did It' book."

Tom Riccio—Simpson's co-worker who created the covert tape revealing the offshore accounts—concurred that OJ "probably" did conceal his wealth from the bereaved relatives.

Riccio recorded the dramatic audio moments after Froming was held at gunpoint by Simpson and his armed friends when he attempted to retrieve sporting mementos he thought had been stolen.