According to E! Online, Amir Pourtemour's lawsuit claims that Simpson, Goldman and several others lifted his take on the case, which is that Simpson is guilty of the double murder and that it was the Los Angeles Police Department, not the former football star, who was framed. Part of Simpson's defense was attempting to prove that LAPD planted evidence to frame him.       

      Also named in Pourtemour's lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in L.A. were ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, who Simpson says did most of the work; entertainment gossip site TMZ.com, which posted excerpts from the book; and publisher Beaufort Books.

       Goldman, who had nothing to do with the book's inception, won the rights to "If I Did It" as part of his ongoing quest to collect on the $33.5 million wrongful-death judgment his family was awarded in 1997. After ReganBooks dropped the project in the face of public outrage, the Goldmans sued to obtain rights and chose to repackage the book as a confession.

       Pourtemour claims that chapters six and seven of "If I Did It," which describe the murders and feature a transcript of Simpson's interview with police investigators following the white Bronco chase, contain "the same premises and conclusions" as "Perfect Alibi," and that both books contain the exact same transcript with the exact same typographical error. (The error in question is from the transcript that is likely part of public record, and therefore not a copyrighted document.)

       Pourtemour is seeking unspecified damages and attorneys' fees, as well as an injunction preventing further sales of "If I Did It."      

       Simpson, meanwhile, is one of two remaining defendants of the original five charged with armed robbery, burglary, assault, kidnapping and coercion in connection with a sports memorabilia heist. The former NFL star is accused of storming the Las Vegas hotel room of two sports memorabilia agents with guns to retrieve items he believed were stolen from him.