Best of Beth Ashley: Is it real or is it consumer insanity?

Editor’s note: The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2007.

Several weeks ago I read a story about O.J. Simpson that has lingered in my mind.

A judge in Los Angeles had ordered Simpson to give up his Rolex wristwatch, valued at up to $22,000, in partial payment for the wrongful deaths of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.

Simpson gave up the watch — but it proved to be a fake, worth at most about $125.

My mind was totally boggled.

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