Simpson has been cremated; no public memorial planned
Former football star and celebrity criminal defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer handling his estate said following his death last week at home in Las Vegas at age 76.
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne told The Associated Press he was present, along with unspecified other people, for the morning event at Palm Mortuary in downtown Las Vegas.
“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.” 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.
Simpson died April 10 after he was diagnosed last year with prostate cancer.
LaVergne said in a Tuesday interview 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.” QB DISMISSED >> The lawsuit accusing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott of sexual assault was dismissed Friday at the plaintiff's request.
The lawsuit was filed in a Dallas County court last month by a woman who said Prescott sexually assaulted her in the parking lot of Dallas strip club XTC Cabaret in February 2017.
The judge presiding over the case dismissed the “non-suit without prejudice,” meaning the woman voluntarily ended the case but could refile it later on.
The lawsuit will be refiled in Collin County, an attorney for the woman, Bethel Zehaie, told The Dallas Morning News in an emailed statement. She said it was so all the lawsuits can be heard together.
Days before the woman filed her initial suit in Dallas County, Prescott filed his own lawsuit against the woman and her attorneys in Collin County. That lawsuit is still pending.
Prescott has denied the claims.
His attorney, Levi G. McCathern, called the allegations “ridiculous,” “completely false” and “criminal,” in a written statement to The News.
“In Texas, it's against the law to shake down someone for any amount of money and this is just that a shake down,” the statement said. “It's also sad for the legitimate survivors of sexual assault when people use our system to try and enrich themselves at the expense of others.”