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

Judith Regan of Regan Books - the company that intended to publish Simpson's book - defended her decision last week. She said in a statement, "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…To publish does not mean 'to endorse'; it means 'to make public…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."