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From: Jasper
Date: 7/26/03
Time: 9:31:46 AM
Remote Name: 68.73.204.12
Jean,
Nicole did not object to Gigi so much that she didn’t try to use her. Just four days before Nicole was murdered O.J. wrote this letter to her (American Tragedy, page 206):
June 8, 1994
Dear Nicole,
To set the record straight, when Arnelle, Jason or myself are at home to watch the kids, especially around the pool, they are welcome here at any time. I would love to have them 24 hours a day, as it is their home too.
However, Gigi is not an emergency cook, baby-sitter or errand runner for you! She is an employee of mine and I expect you to respect that – now, and in the future.
O.J. Simpson
VIA MESSENGER
I find several curious things about this letter. In the first place, it could only have been written to establish a legal record of some kind. There is nothing in the letter that O.J. couldn’t have told Nicole face to face or on the telephone. Secondly, what’s with this “VIA MESSENGER” note at the bottom of the letter? What difference did it make to O.J. how the letter was delivered or who knew how it was delivered? Then there’s the signature line, “O.J. Simpson.” Why not simply O.J.? And finally, there’s the fact that Mark Fuhrman found the letter during the June 13 search.
Unfortunately, Schiller doesn’t say whether Fuhrman found it in Nicole’s house or O.J.’s and the reproduction of the letter in his book doesn’t show O.J.’s signature. Therefore, we don’t know if it was the original letter that Nicole got or a copy that O.J. kept for his records. This looks like another “lawyer’s letter” prepared to show a pattern of Nicole’s unreasonable demands and expectations in preparation for an upcoming legal battle just as the letter and press clippings in Nicole’s safe deposit box look like preparation for the same thing.
From Fuhrman’s point of view the only value of O.J.’s letter seems to be to show a pattern of O.J.’s loyalty to his maids with the implication that the loyalty was mutual. In other words, it looks like Fuhrman was thinking ahead to O.J.’s murder trial and trying to use anything he could think of to discredit Gigi as a witness. If that is true, the question is, why? What did Fuhrman know that made it important to him to discredit Gigi as a witness? –Jasper