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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 said 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.
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.'
O.J. Simpson sits at his arraignment in Superior Court in Los Angeles on July 22, 1994
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.'
On April 5, a doctor told LaVergne that Simpson was 'transitioning,' as the attorney 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 O.J. with the world their entire lives,' LaVergne said Tuesday of Simpson's surviving adult children of his first marriage - Arnelle Simpson, now 55, and Jason
