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Apr 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) After years of battling back and forth between the father of the victim in the OJ Simpson case, Fred Goldman, and Simpson’s former manager, Mike Gilbert, who also is the author of the book, “How I Helped O.J. Simpson Get Away With Murder” it seems it has finally been decided what will come of the tan Armani suit, white shirt and gold tie which OJ was wearing during his acquittal. It has been acquired by the Newseum in Washington, DC to be displayed in the “Trial of the Century” exhibit.

“For us, it’s a piece of news history that we will include in our collection of objects relating to the trial,” said Carrie Christofferson, the curator who was involved in negotiations to obtain the suit. The suit is presently in the possession of Mike Gilbert, who says he obtianed the suit when he saw it laying in a closet floor after a party, and OJ told him that he could have it. Gilbert says he will personally fly the suit to Washington and hand deliver it to the museum. “I hope it will be displayed in a way that will help people ponder the legal system and celebrity,” said Gilbert. “I’m happy that it will go somewhere where people can see it and remember where they were that day in history.”

This must be one very important suit, since it is estimated to be worth at least $50,000. It has been in a 13 year long legal battle between the former manager and the victim’s family, and OJ Simpson has even went to jail for it. Although he was acquitted of murder, the 62 year old man is now serving a minimum nine year prison sentence for robbery and kidnapping in Los Vegas in October of 2008. He was attempting to retrieve his memorabilia, which he said was stolen by dealers. He was said to have believed that the suit was among the items which were being offered for sale in a hotel room, but it was not.

When he was asked why Fred Goldman would agree to the suit, worn by the man believed to have killed his child, being enshrined in a museum, David Cook (Goldman’s attorney) responded, “People will ask me what Fred Goldman gets from this. It’s not money, it’s not vengeance. It’s the enshrinement of the painfully inexplicable. It does further Fred Goldman’s goals because it keeps the story in front of America and, to that degree, it’s a success, as much as one can find any success in this terrible story”