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Lawyer: Simpson cremated; no public memorial

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Last updated: 2024/04/18 at 3:16 PM
BigP Published April 18, 2024
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Apr 17, 2024, 04:17 PM ET

LAS VEGAS — Former football star and celebrity criminal defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer handling his estate said Wednesday.

Simpson died April 10 at his Las Vegas home at age 76. He had been diagnosed last year with prostate cancer.

Attorney Malcolm LaVergne told The Associated Press that he was present, along with unspecified other people, for the event at Palm Mortuary in downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday morning.

“I am able to verify that O.J. Simpson was cremated today,” LaVergne said shortly afterward. “Others were present, but I’m not disclosing who.”

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He declined to provide details of the process.

A telephone message for Palm Mortuary was not immediately returned.

LaVergne is handling Simpson’s trust and estate in Nevada state court. He said 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, the attorney said.

“You have to remember that they’ve shared O.J. with the world their entire lives,” LaVergne said Tuesday of Simpson’s surviving adult children of his first marriage, Arnelle Simpson, now 55, and Jason Simpson, 53, and the children Simpson had with ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson before she was killed in 1994, Sydney Simpson, 38, and Justin Simpson, 35.

“They have the added burden that he is one of the most famous people on the planet, and who is polarizing and who is surrounded by controversy.”

Simpson’s children are the only beneficiaries of his estate, LaVergne said, adding he is now working to determine the value of Simpson’s assets. He said Tuesday that Simpson did not own a home in states where he had lived — including Nevada, California and Florida.

Simpson was a record-setting football star during 11 years as a running back in the NFL and became a movie actor, sportscaster and television advertising pitchman before he was famously acquitted of criminal charges alleging he stabbed his ex-wife and her friend, Ronald Goldman, to death in 1994 in Los Angeles. The proceedings in California in 1996 became known as the “Trial of the Century.”

Simpson was found liable for the deaths in 1997 by a separate California civil court jury and was ordered to pay the families of Simpson’s slain ex-wife and Goldman $33.5 million in compensation. LaVergne acknowledged Simpson died without paying the bulk of that judgment.

In Las Vegas, Simpson went to prison in 2008 for nine years after being found guilty of armed robbery in a 2007 encounter at a casino-hotel with two collectibles dealers.

He was released from prison in October 2017 and lived a golf and country club lifestyle in Las Vegas.

Attorney David Cook, representing the Goldman family, said Tuesday he thought the civil judgment owed today, including unpaid interest, is more than $114 million. LaVergne he believed the amount was more than $200 million, and that Simpson’s assets won’t amount to that.

LaVergne said he intends to invite representatives of the Goldman and Brown families to “view my homework” with the Simpson estate, “with the caveat that if they believe something else is out there … They’re going to have to use their own attorneys, their own resources, to try and chase down that pot of gold.”

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