Other Key Figures to Give Depositions

Over the coming weeks, a number of other key figures are expected to be deposed as part of the civil wrongful death suits filed against O.J. Simpson.

Among them are longtime Simpson friends Al Cowlings and Robert Kardashian; Brian “Kato” Kaelin; Cathy Randa, Simpson’s personal assistant, and Simpson’s grown children, Jason and Arnelle.

Also set for depositions are Dr. Robert Huizenga, who examined Simpson shortly after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, and Kansas City Chiefs running back Marcus Allen, who was a close friend of Simpson.

Simpson, who has undergone five days of interrogation by the plaintiffs’ attorneys, is expected to resume his deposition Feb. 19.

The next person to be deposed is Kim Goldman, Ronald Goldman’s sister, who is scheduled to be questioned by Simpson’s lawyers starting Monday.

Defense lawyers also have requested depositions of Sharon Rufo, mother of Ronald Goldman; Los Angeles Police Det. Tom Lange, former Dets. Philip Vannatter and Mark Fuhrman; LAPD nurse Thano Peratis; Fred and Kim Goldman; Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Denise and her father, Louis Brown, as well as Faye Resnick and Cora Fischman, friends of Nicole Simpson.

Michael A. Brewer, one of Rufo’s attorneys, said he thought Fuhrman’s deposition would be very brief. He said he expected the former officer to invoke the 5th Amendment on every question.

Rufo, Fred Goldman and the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson filed the wrongful death suits against Simpson.