LAS VEGAS — Former soccer star and celeb prison defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer dealing with his property stated Wednesday.
Simpson died April 10 at his Las Vegas residence at age 76. He had been recognized final 12 months with prostate most cancers.
Legal professional Malcolm LaVergne instructed The Related Press that he was current, together with unspecified different individuals, for the occasion at Palm Mortuary in downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday morning.
“I’m able to confirm that O.J. Simpson was cremated as we speak,” LaVergne stated shortly afterward. “Others had been current, however I am not disclosing who.”
He declined to supply 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 courtroom. He stated Simpson’s cremains might be given to Simpson’s youngsters “to do with as they please, in line with the needs of their father.”
No public memorial was deliberate, the lawyer stated.
“It’s a must to do not forget that they’ve shared O.J. with the world their complete lives,” LaVergne stated Tuesday of Simpson’s surviving grownup youngsters 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.
“They’ve 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 youngsters are the one beneficiaries of his property, LaVergne stated, including he’s now working to find out the worth of Simpson’s property. He stated 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 soccer star throughout 11 years as a working again within the NFL and have become a film actor, sportscaster and tv promoting pitchman earlier than he was famously acquitted of prison costs alleging he stabbed his ex-wife and her buddy, Ronald Goldman, to loss of life in 1994 in Los Angeles. The proceedings in California in 1996 turned often known as the “Trial of the Century.”
Simpson was discovered answerable for the deaths in 1997 by a separate California civil courtroom 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 nation membership way of life in Las Vegas.
Legal professional David Cook dinner, representing the Goldman household, stated Tuesday he thought the civil judgment owed as we speak, together with unpaid curiosity, is greater than $114 million. LaVergne he believed the quantity was greater than $200 million, and that Simpson’s property will not quantity to that.
LaVergne stated he intends to ask representatives of the Goldman and Brown households to “view my homework” with the Simpson property, “with the caveat that in the event that they consider one thing else is on the market … They will have to make use of their very own attorneys, their very own sources, to attempt to chase down that pot of gold.”