A lawyer for late National Football League (NFL) star OJ Simpson has stated that there are no intentions to donate his brain to science and that he will be cremated in the following days. Since Simpson’s death, media claims have circulated alleging that his brain would be used to investigate chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain illness often identified in past and present NFL players and combat sportsmen.
“OJ Simpson’s entire body, including his brain, will be cremated”
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne told NBC News that donating Simpson’s brain to research was not an option. “His entire body, including his brain, will be cremated,” LaVergne added.
OJ Simpson, regarded as one of the best running backs of all time, died on April 10th, aged 76, after a battle with cancer. Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles.
He was found not guilty in the 1994 stabbing killings of Nicole and Goldman, but he was found responsible for his former wife’s death in a civil lawsuit.
On Sunday, LaVergne addressed comments he made to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in which he stated that he did not want Goldman’s family to be able to receive any money from Simpson’s estate and that it was “my hope that the Goldmans get zero, nothing.”
According to NBC News, LaVergne was referring to a debt collection lawyer working with the Goldman family who, within an hour of Simpson’s death, was “bashing Simpson and all this stuff, ‘We’re going to do this and that.'”