Poor Judith Regan

Judith Regan, the publisher behind the controversial OJ Simpson book who was fired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, is the subject of a "smear campaign", says her Lawyer

News Corp said earlier that Ms Regan made anti-Semitic remarks to a lawyer at its HarperCollins publishing division, and that these comments resulted in her dismissal last Friday.

According to News Corp, she told the lawyer, among other things, that a number of HarperCollins executives "constitute a Jewish cabal against her".

Bert Fields, Ms Regan's lawyer, referring to the News Corp allegations, said: "When you don't have a defence sometimes you come up with something like [claims of] anti-Semitism and racism. That will all be dispelled at court." He added that Ms Regan had started legal action. "She is owed a very substantial amount."

Ms Regan's dismissal came less than a month after Mr Murdoch's cancellation of Mr Simpson's If I Did It, a book and television interview that was greeted with near-universal outrage when announced.

The book hypothetically detailed the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. Many felt this amounted to a confession.

Meanwhile, Ronald Goldman’s father has filed a federal suit on Tuesday, claiming that O.J. “profited from the death of my son�.

The fresh lawsuit alleges that Simpson set up a shell corporation, Lorraine Brooke Associates (name taken from the middle names of two of his children), where profits from the morbid “If I Did It� would flow. Apparently he was paid $1 million for his book.

Fred Goldman is asking for whatever payment O.J. has received for his book. He has said he hoped the lawsuit would help expose everyone who “worked with the killer to profit from the death of my son. We will not stop until we are able to shine the light of truth on those that acted in concert with him.�