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(UPDATE...as reported on the FOXNEWS.com website)

NEW YORK — News Corp., the parent company of book publisher HarperCollins and the FOX network, has canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book and television special "If I Did It."

"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."

A dozen FOX affiliates had already said they would not air the two-part sweeps month special, planned for next week before the book's publication.

Last week, Judith Regan, would-be publisher of Simpson's book, said she did not pay Simpson for the rights to publish his book, in which the one-time football superstar tells how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend if, in fact, he had done it.

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Outrage Over New O.J. TV, Book Deal Furhman: O.J. Is Out of His Mind "What I do know is I didn't pay him," Regan said in an eight-page statement titled "Why I Did It" and released on Thursday. "I contracted through a third party who owns the rights, and I was told the money would go to his children. That much I could live with."

• Raw Data: Judith Regan Statement: 'Why I Did It'

Regan also said in the statement that she wanted Simpson's "confession" because she hersel

whippie....... way to go fox.

It just reaffirms "Stand up and be heard" and "Every vote does matter"

If you look at the number of votes at vote.com today that were sent to the publisher it was on overwelming cry to stop the project.

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"What I do know is I didn't pay him," Regan said in an eight-page statement titled "Why I Did It" and released on Thursday. "I contracted through a third party who owns the rights, and I was told the money would go to his children. That much I could live with."

• Raw Data: Judith Regan Statement: 'Why I Did It'

Regan also said in the statement that she wanted Simpson's "confession" because she herself was once a victim of abuse.

"I made the decision to publish this book, and to sit face to face with the killer, because I wanted him, and the men who broke my heart and your hearts, to tell the truth, to confess their sins, to do penance and to amend their lives."

Although Regan has acknowledged that Simpson does not directly say that he killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, she said she considers the book to be his confession.

Regan said Simpson approached her with the idea for the book, which reportedly was sold for $3.5 million.

After word of the book emerged, Regan said she's watched as the media "have all but called for my death for publishing his book and for interviewing him."

"To publish does not mean 'to endorse'; it means 'to make public,"' she said.

"If you doubt that, ask the mainstream publishers who keep Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' in print to this day. ... There is historical value in such work ... for anyone who wants to gain insight into the mind of a sociopath."

"If I Did It," which was to be published by ReganBooks — an imprint to HarperCollins, was scheduled for release

Thank you Fox for your decorum.

Yes - I am sure that the votes at vote.com had a LOT to do with the book being pulled! Last I looked it was almost 40,000 votes in just 5 days to boycott the book! Imagine what it would have been in a week or two!

I applaud Fox for putting their programming veiwers BEFORE their programming advertisers/income producers.

Bravo!!

I am just SO glad to see the book deal self-destruct as well.

We spoke/voted and Fox listened. Way to go!

Great!!!

Thanks Fox for for recondering the interview. I would still be a Fox viewer, but that night I would deffently found another chanell to watch. I thank that OJ might have something to say, but I'm shure it would all be a BIG line of bull!!! Thanks agin, a loyal viewer.

Personally, I could care less what goes on in his mind. I don't think anyone's life will be "saved" by watching "O.J".
What makes you think he is truthful? If he was a truthful man, he'd be in jail. America spoke, Fox listened. Bravo!