As Rebecca Dana writes in today’s excellent NY Observer piece on the If I Did It backstory, and was first mentioned late last week by NYDN reporter Michelle Caruso, Pablo Fenjves (right) is the guy who wrote If I Did It, which is ironic given that he testified against O.J. Simpson at his murder trial, because he heard what may have Nicole Brown Simpson’s dog barking at her killer and keening over her corpse. Dana identifies Fenjves as a colleague of Judith Regan going back to her National Enquirer days, but that’s not the half of it, as Fenjves has been a go-to scribe for Regan’s un-writerly authors for some time now.
Why, just this year, Fenjves helped Regan piggyback onto the James Frey controversy with the quickie satire A Million Little Lies, promotional materials for which describe him as a “ghostwriter, screenwriter and studmuffin.” Then, in April, he pumped up Karim Rashid’s Design Your Self and did gruntwork on How I Broke into Hollywood, a collection of celebrity anecdotes looking back on their salad days. Including one from Bernie Mac, whose memoirs Fenjves penned back in 2003.