In an online auction earlier this year, Kim Kardashian spent more than $80,000 to retrieve a personal artifact related to her late father and the O.J. Simpson trial.
On the latest episode of “Kardashians,” the reality star revealed that she was an anonymous buyer who obtained a personalized copy of the “Living Bible” once owned by Robert Kardashian.
The book, originally believed to be a gift to Simpson in the early 1990s, turned out to be Robert’s own, with his name and a handwritten message in blue ink engraved inside.
“You’re not going to believe what it is and you’re not going to care, but one day you’re going to understand that this is really special to me,” Kim told her daughter Chicago as she opened the package. “This used to be my dad’s. When someone goes to heaven, their energy is always with us.”
The Bible was part of a March auction of Simpson-related items. Simpson died in April 2024 at the age of 76 after battling prostate cancer. The book received 49 bids and sold for $65,800. Including the 22% buyer’s premium, Kardashian paid a total of $80,276.
“So, if anyone’s wondering who won the O.J. Simpson auction, you better believe it’s me,” she said, smiling as she held the Bible up to the camera.
Initially, King thought it was a Bible her father purchased for Simpson after his 1994 arrest for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. But after turning a few pages, she realized it belonged to Robert himself.
“I thought it was a Bible that my dad bought orange juice and wrote in. (But) it was actually my dad’s Bible with his name on it. I had no idea,” she said.
According to Malcolm LaVergne, the executor of Simpson’s estate, Kardashian had previously bid $15,000 for the Bible before the auction began. The offer was declined because the item was already under a sales contract.
Kim also revealed that she made the bid using a pseudonym in hopes of avoiding inflating the final price.
Robert Kardashian, who died in 2003 at age 59, was a key figure in Simpson’s defense team during the 1995 murder trial that resulted in Simpson’s acquittal.
A civil jury later found Simpson responsible for the deaths in 1997, and earlier this week his estate agreed to pay the Goldman family $58 million.
