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OJ Simpson quietly cremated with no public service planned

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Published date18 April 2024
Publication titleWalesOnline (Wales)
Lawyer Malcolm LaVergne told The Associated Press he was present, along with unspecified other people, for the morning event at Palm Mortuary in central Las Vegas. “I am able to verify that OJ Simpson was cremated today,” Mr LaVergne said shortly afterwards

“Others were present, but I’m not disclosing who.”

He declined to provide details of the process. Mr 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 lawyer said.

Simpson died on April 10 after he was diagnosed last year with prostate cancer. Mr LaVergne said in a Tuesday interview that he visited Simpson just before Easter at the country club home Simpson leased south west 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 Mr LaVergne that Simpson was “transitioning”, as the lawyer described it, and by last week Simpson only had strength to ask for water and to choose to watch a TV golf tournament instead of a tennis match. A post on April 11 from Simpson’s family on X, formerly Twitter, said Simpson “succumbed to his battle with cancer”.

It asked on their behalf for “privacy and grace”. “You have to remember that they’ve shared OJ with the world their entire lives,” Mr LaVergne said on 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.

“And they have the added burden that he is one of the most famous people on the planet, and who is polarising and who is surrounded by controversy.” Simpson’s children are the only beneficiaries of his estate, Mr LaVergne said, adding he is now working to determine the value of Simpson’s assets.

He said on Tuesday that Simpson did not own a home in...

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