Did OJ Simpson Get $3.5 Million for Book?

It is being reported that OJ Simpson has been paid 3.5 million dollars for detailing the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The book is claimed to be titled “If I Did It” and includes a half hearted statement that the details of the stabbings are hypothetical. 

The breaking source of this story is “The National Enquirer” leaving most to wonder if this is once again just some kind of sensational hype. If this story is accurate then the concept of OJ detailing the brutal murder of two people whom he claims he did not kill is as gruesome as a secret source claims the account of the actual act that OJ Simpson has created in this book.
As the question remains “is there really a book or not?” 

The bigger question for many is bound to be why would OJ Simpson whom has vowed many times that there would be no way he would pay off his civil suit to the families of former wife Nicole or Ronald Goldman make a deal in which the majority of his earning would be taken to help pay off these suits? Maybe this is simply his way of thumbing his nose at the Brown and Goldman families whom OJ Simpson has clearly shown his distain for many times over the years. If it is a way of thumbing his nose; it is truly as brutal to those families as the murders of their loved ones were. 

In 1998 Celia Farber of “Esquire” wrote and article after following Simpson for months. While he never granted her an official interview he did speak with her and when all was said and done she was left wondering if he even knew for sure anymore if he had committed the crime or not. In one statement made to Farber Simpson states "Let's say I committed this crime ... Even if I did do this, it would have been because I loved her very much, right?" 

Was that the confession of a guilty man or was it an innocent man tired of dealing with the press and the questions about his former wife’s murder in which he had been acquitted? Was that his way of explaining his actions? This is a rather odd statement for an innocent man. Only OJ Simpson knows the truth and America still wonders exactly what that might be.