It has been noted that former NFL running back O.J. Simpson has been cremated in Las Vegas after his death last week at the age of 76 as per the executor of his estate via Fox News.
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne has told Reuters that he, relatives and friends were in attendance Wednesday for the private gathering at the Palm Downtown Mortuary & Cemetery.
Simpson was infamously was acquitted in the double murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman and he died from prostate cancer on April 10.
LaVergne told The Associated Press that Simpson’s cremains will be given to Simpson’s children “to do with as they please, according to the wishes of their father.” No public memorial was planned, he added.
LaVergne stated on Tuesday that he visited Simpson just before Easter at the country club home where Simpson leased southwest of the Las Vegas Strip, and described Simpson as “awake, alert and chilling” sitting on a couch, drinking a beer and “just catching up on the news.”
On April 5, a doctor told LaVergne that Simpson was “transitioning,” as the attorney described it, and by last week Simpson only had the strength to ask for water and to choose to watch a TV golf tournament instead of a tennis match.
“On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer,” his family then announced on X on April 11. “He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren.”
LaVergne said to the New York Post over the weekend that there were no plans to donate Simpson’s brain to the research of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), with the family giving a “hard no” to multiple calls to do so.
