OJ Simpson has been cremated, property legal professional in Las Vegas says. No public memorial is deliberate
LAS VEGAS — Former star and celeb legal defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer dealing with his property mentioned following his demise final week at house in Las Vegas at age 76.
Lawyer Malcolm LaVergne informed The Related Press he was current, together with unspecified different individuals, for the morning occasion at Palm Mortuary in downtown Las Vegas.
“I’m able to confirm that O.J. Simpson was cremated at this time,” LaVergne mentioned shortly afterward. “Others have been current, however I am not disclosing who.” He declined to offer particulars of the method.
A phone message for Palm Mortuary was not instantly returned.
LaVergne is dealing with Simpson’s belief and property in Nevada state court docket. He mentioned Simpson’s cremains can be given to Simpson’s kids “to do with as they please, in keeping with the desires of their father.”
No public memorial was deliberate, the legal professional mentioned.
Simpson died April 10 after he was recognized final 12 months with prostate most cancers.
LaVergne mentioned in a Tuesday interview that he visited Simpson simply earlier than Easter on the nation membership house the place Simpson leased southwest of the Las Vegas Strip, and described Simpson as “awake, alert and chilling” sitting on a sofa, consuming a beer and ”simply catching up on the information.”
On April 5, a physician informed LaVergne that Simpson was “transitioning,” because the legal professional described it, and by final week Simpson solely had energy to ask for water and to decide on to observe a TV golf event as an alternative of a tennis match.
A publish on April 11 from Simpson’s household on X, previously Twitter, mentioned Simpson “succumbed to his battle with most cancers.” It requested on their behalf for “privateness and beauty.”
“It’s important to keep in mind that they’ve shared O.J. with the world their complete lives,” LaVergne mentioned Tuesday of Simpson’s surviving grownup kids of his first marriage — Arnelle Simpson, now 55, and Jason Simpson, 53 — and the kids Simpson had with ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson earlier than she was killed in 1994: Sydney Simpson, 38, and Justin Simpson, 35. “And so they have the added burden that he is likely one of the most well-known individuals on the planet, and who’s polarizing and who’s surrounded by controversy.”
Simpson’s kids are the one beneficiaries of his property, LaVergne mentioned, including he’s now working to find out the worth of Simpson’s property. He mentioned Tuesday that Simpson didn’t personal a house in states the place he had lived — together with Nevada, California and Florida.
Simpson was a record-setting star throughout 11 years as a operating again within the NFL and have become a film actor, sportscaster and tv promoting pitchman earlier than he was famously acquitted of legal costs alleging he stabbed his ex-wife and her pal, Ronald Goldman, to demise in 1994 in Los Angeles. The proceedings in California in 1996 turned often called the “trial of the century.”
Simpson was discovered answerable for the deaths in 1997 by a separate California civil court docket jury and was ordered to pay the households of Simpson’s slain ex-wife and Goldman $33.5 million in compensation. LaVergne acknowledged Simpson died with out paying the majority of that judgment.
In Las Vegas, Simpson went to jail in 2008 for 9 years after being discovered responsible of armed theft in a 2007 encounter at a casino-hotel with two collectibles sellers.
He was launched from jail in October 2017 and lived a golf-and-country membership life-style in Las Vegas — generally providing social media posts about sports activities and golf. His final message was on Feb. 11, when the NFL championship Tremendous Bowl was performed in Las Vegas. He didn’t attend the sport.
Lawyer David Cook dinner, representing the Goldman household, mentioned Tuesday he thought the civil judgment owed at this time, together with unpaid curiosity, is greater than $114 million. LaVergne he believed the quantity was greater than $200 million, and that Simpson’s property received’t quantity to that.
LaVergne mentioned he intends invite representatives of the Goldman and Brown households to “view my homework” with the Simpson property, ”with the caveat that in the event that they imagine one thing else is on the market … they’re going to have to make use of their very own attorneys, their very own sources, to attempt to chase down that pot of gold.”
