Pablo Fenjves

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.cite news |title=A Friendly Ghost |first=Andrew |last=Murr |work=Newsweek |date=2008-03-03 |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/114710 ]

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". 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.

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."cite news |last=Caruso |first=Michelle |date=2006-11-18 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/11-18-2006/news/story/472510p-397608c.html |title=Ghost writer 'barked' at trial |work=New York Daily News ]

He was the ghostwriter of the O.J. Simpson book "If I Did It".cite news |first=Jeffrey |last=Toobin |authorlink=Jeffrey Toobin |date=2006-12-04 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061204ta_talk_toobin |title=The Ghost Writer |work=The New Yorker ] Simpson denied that his ghostwriter was involved in the trial [cite news |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16626387/ |title=O.J. says ghostwriter wrote account of killings |work=Associated Press |date=2007-01-22 |publisher=MSNBC ] , but Fenjves revealed himself in interviews. [cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/18/earlyshow/leisure/books/main3271298.shtml |title="If I Did It" Ghost Writer: O.J.'s Guilty |work=CBS News |date=2007-09-18 ]

Bibliography

*How I Broke into Hollywood: Success Stories from the Trenches

*A Million Little Lies

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