Pablo Fenjves

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Pablo F. Fenjves (born 16 August 1953) is a screenwriter and ghostwriter based in Los Angeles, California best known for ghostwriting O.J. Simpson's account of the O.J. Simpson murder case.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela to Hungarian survivors of the Holocaust, Fenjves went to college in Illinois. His first journalism job was in Canada. He joined the National Enquirer in Florida in the late 1970s, where he befriended Judith Regan. [1][2]

Hired by Regan, Fenjves has ghostwritten a dozen books, including two number one New York Times best-sellers. Fenjves also wrote the autobiography of Bernie Mac, Maybe You Never Cry Again, and the memoirs of Janice Dickinson. Under the name James Pinocchio, he wrote a parody of A Million Little Pieces called A Million Little Lies.[2] He also continues to write screenplays, and has more than ten television movies to his credit including Bloodhounds, Twilight Man and Bloodhounds II. Upcoming books include one for José Canseco called Vindicated about steroid use in Major League Baseball and one with television psychic Lisa Williams.[2]

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[edit] O.J. Simpson Trial Involvement

Fenjves was Nicole Brown Simpson's neighbor at the time of the murders and testified in the 1995 criminal trial about hearing a dog bark at the time of the murders: "a plaintive wail—sounded like a, you know, a very unhappy animal."[3]

He was the ghostwriter of the O.J. Simpson book If I Did It.[1] Simpson denied that his ghostwriter was involved in the trial[4], but Fenjves revealed himself in interviews.[5][2]

[edit] Bibliography

  • How I Broke into Hollywood: Success Stories from the Trenches
  • A Million Little Lies

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Toobin, Jeffrey. "The Ghost Writer", The New Yorker, 2006-12-04. 
  2. ^ a b c d Murr, Andrew. "A Friendly Ghost", Newsweek, 2008-03-03. 
  3. ^ Caruso, Michelle. "Ghost writer 'barked' at trial", New York Daily News, 2006-11-18. 
  4. ^ "O.J. says ghostwriter wrote account of killings", Associated Press, MSNBC, 2007-01-22. 
  5. ^ ""If I Did It" Ghost Writer: O.J.'s Guilty", CBS News, 2007-09-18. 

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