Dorothy’s slippers. Yes. Julia Child’s kitchen. Yes.
O.J. Simpson’s suit. No way.
That could be the shopping list at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
The keeper of the "Wizard of Oz" slippers and the Julia Child’s TV kitchen has flatly rejected the suit O.J. Simpson wore the day he was acquitted of charges in the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
After the criminal trial, Goldman's father successfully sued Simpson and won a civil award of $33.5 million in 1997. Since then, he has been trying to collect by seizing O.J. Simpson’s assets.
The suit has been in the hands of Simpson’s former agent, Mike Gilbert. Amidst arguments about the rights to the suit, Gilbert suggested donating it to the museum, and both sides agreed to the plan.
On Monday a judge ordered the donation.
Except the Smithsonian doesn’t want the suit.
“The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will not be collecting O.J. Simpson's suit," the museum said in a statement Tuesday. "The decision was made by the museum's curators together with the director.”
A museum spokeswoman declined to offer further explanation.
