A federal judge on Wednesday refused to hear a lawsuit brought by the father of Ronald Goldman over the money paid to O.J. Simpson for his unpublished book, "If I Did It."

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real said the case is out of his jurisdiction and should be filed in Florida state court.

Plaintiff Fred Goldman, father of one of the people for whose deaths Simpson was found liable, lives in Arizona, and Simpson lives in Florida. Real’s jurisdiction is the federal Central District of California.

"They got kicked out to the curb," Simpson attorney Yale Galanter said after the hearing.

Jonathan Polak, an attorney for the Goldman family, said the family had not decided whether to appeal Real’s decision or take the lawsuit to Florida.

Fred Goldman alleged in the lawsuit that Simpson used a shell company to conceal an advance he received for a book-and-TV deal to avoid paying a wrongful death judgment.

Goldman had sought a court order freezing the money or turning it over to the family. The book, which was spiked in November by the publisher, contains a chapter in which Simpson gives a hypothetical account of how he would have killed ex-wife Nicole Simpson Brown and Goldman.

Ronald Goldman’s sister, Kim Goldman, 35, of Los Angeles, said she would not abandon fighting Simpson in court.

"We’ve been encouraged to let it go, and to let our anger subside. I find that ridiculous and offensive," she said. "I’m gonna squeeze him until he explodes."

Simpson received $895,000 in the deal but spent it on items such as tax payments, his mortgage and tuition for his children’s schooling, said one of his attorneys, Ron Slates.

"It’s gone," he said.

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murder in the June 12, 1994, slayings of Goldman and Simpson’s ex-wife in Los Angeles.

Two years later, a state jury ruled in a lawsuit that Simpson was liable for their deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million, which with interest has grown to about $40 million.

The former football star’s Heisman Trophy was sold to pay a portion of the judgment, but the plaintiffs have been unable to recover any substantial cash.

A Los Angeles judge clamped down on O.J. Simpson’s spending on Friday, some two weeks after another judge froze money the ex-football star earned from his aborted book and TV deal about the murders of his ex-wife and her friend.

Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg issued a limited restraining order prohibiting Simpson from spending royalties or otherwise maneuvering funds from any past deals, including media, books and magazines, until a hearing on February 20.

The order does not apply to the advance Simpson received for his quasi-confessional book "If I Did It."

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real temporarily froze that money following a separate lawsuit filed in December by the father of murder victim Ron Goldman.

The amount of the advance was never disclosed, but attorneys for Goldman’s father, Fred, have put it at around $1 million.

Simpson, who parlayed his fame as an athlete into a career as an actor and television pitchman, was acquitted of the June 12, 1994, murders of Goldman and his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.

A civil court jury found him liable for the deaths and in 1997 ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the murder victims’ families. But little of that judgment has been collected, and Simpson has vowed never to voluntarily pay the award.

"(Simpson) just refuses to come to grips with his financial responsibility," said attorney David Cook, who represents Fred Goldman. "It reaches the level of defiance."

Goldman’s attorneys say Simpson was paid the $1 million for "If I Did It" through a shell corporation, Lorraine Brooke Associates, which they say was created to avoid paying the judgment.

Simpson has said that he was paid much less than $1 million for the book and that he already used his earnings to pay bills. Rosenberg’s order, which stems from the original judgment, allows Simpson to continue paying necessary living expenses.

Controversy over the book, billed as Simpson’s hypothetical account of how he would have committed the murders, prompted News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch to scrap "If I Did It" and an accompanying Fox television special in November.

The Simpson book deal and television interview were brokered by maverick publisher Judith Regan, who was fired from her HarperCollins imprint, ReganBooks, about a month later amid accusations of anti-Semitism.

Lawyers for Goldman added publisher HarperCollins, a division of News Corp., to the federal lawsuit against Simpson on Tuesday.

O.J. Simpson is willing to give Fred Goldman "a percentage" of his future earnings if the victim’s dad will stop battling him in court over every cent he makes, Simpson’s lawyer said yesterday.

"Fred Goldman needs to get rid of the anger and deal with this as a business deal. Let’s talk hard dollars and percentages," said attorney Ronald Slates, who is defending Simpson against the Goldman family’s bid to seize his recent book-deal pay and future earnings.

"We are prepared to negotiate," said Slates, hinting that Simpson is weary of spending tens of thousands on legal fees to fend off the Goldmans’ claims.

But Fred Goldman won’t bargain.

"I should get over the anger? And forget his murdering client took the life of my son? He must be out of his damn mind," the father said.

"No way in hell I’d enter into a business arrangement that benefits him [Simpson]. He belongs on a gurney with a needle in his arm to end his life," Goldman said.

In Santa Monica Superior Court yesterday, Judge Gerald Rosenberg temporarily barred Simpson from hiding, transferring or liquidating any income he receives from past deals or contracts, pending the Feb. 20 hearing.

Pictured above, O.J. Simpson book publisher Judith Regan is photographed in the studio of her ’Judith Regan Show’ on Sirius satellite radio, in New York in this Thursday night Nov. 16, 2006 file photo. Regan, was fired Friday, Dec. 15, 2006, her sensational, scandalous tenure at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. ending with the tersest of announcements.

"Judith Regan’s employment with HarperCollins has been terminated effective immediately," HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman said in a statement late Friday. "The REGAN publishing program and staff will continue as part of the HarperCollins General Books Group."

Friedman offered no reason for the decision or details of any kind. But her statement comes just weeks after Murdoch’s cancellation of Simpson’s hypothetical murder confession, "If I Did It," a planned book and Fox television interview that Regan vehemently defended but was greeted with instant and near-universal disgust.

"She’s a tremendously inventive publisher, but I guess she just pushed the envelope too far," said Jonathan Karp, publisher of the Warner Twelve imprint at the Hachette Book Group.

The 53-year-old Regan, a former National Enquirer reporter, has been turning out hits since the 1980s, including books by Howard Stern, Drew Barrymore, and Rush Limbaugh. But her image is as harsh as some of her writers. An industry outsider, and proud of it, Regan has been labeled a "foul-mouthed tyrant" and the "enfant terrible of American publishing."

She is also widely envied, if not admired, for attracting headlines about her books, and herself. Reminds me a lot of Perez Hilton, only he’s just hateful and hated. You can fire Perez, just don’t go to his web site, and encourage others not to go there.

In the video, Chris Rock tours the "Trevor Berbick Studio" during the first episode of his old HBO show, creatively titled The Chris Rock Show. He goes on about how many historic events the studio has seen during the airing of his show, which, of course, was all pretend. He jokes about him firing his white writing staff because they wanted "to get to know the black experience," and about a Wayans family gathering (a picture of a huge rally in Washington) was funny.

The best part was when he talked about O.J. Simpson coming in to promote his new video. The title? I Didn’t Kill My Wife! (But If I DID, Here’s How I’d Do It). Wow. Remember, this was in 1997, nine years before OJ, and Judith Regan got the bright idea to do an eventually-kiboshed book and TV special called If I Did It, Here’s How it Happened.

“It’s blood money, but it’s no different than any of the other writers who did books on this case.”

- OJ Simpson