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OJ Simpson's final days were spent drinking beer on his couch in his gated Las Vegas community before he took a sudden turn for the worst after Easter, leaving him only able to ask for water and watch his beloved golf on TV.
Simpson died last Thursday at the age of 76 following a battle with prostate cancer. His remains were cremated Tuesday in a private ceremony.
It was earlier reported that the prime suspect in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman made friends and family sign non-disclosure agreements before visiting him at home over the past few weeks.
'He was awake, alert and chilling,' attorney Malcom LaVergne recalled Tuesday.
'He's on the couch ... drinking a beer and watching TV. And so that was the last time we had effective back-and-forth conversations. He's usually the one who keeps me up on the news ... so we were just catching up on the news then.'
OJ Simpson pictured with his ex-wife Nicole and their blended family at the premiere of Naked Gun 33 1/3 in 1994, just three months before her murder
Attorney Malcom LaVergne pictured during Simpson's parole hearing in Nevada in July 2017
About a week later, on April 5, a doctor said Simpson was 'transitioning,' as LaVergne described it.
The last time LaVergne visited, last week, Simpson only had strength to ask for water and to choose to watch a TV golf tournament instead of a tennis match.
'Of course he chose golf,' LaVergne told The Associated Press in an interview. 'He was an absolute golf fanatic.'
A source close to the family told DailyMail.com this week that Simpson’s decline was rapid: although hale and hearty a year ago, he declined precipitously in recent weeks and had been open about having cancer with pals.
The insider said: ‘I last saw him two weeks ago and he was gray. He looked really bad. He couldn’t walk across the restaurant without help and you could see he was really ill.’
They added: ‘It’s like night and day since this time last year. He looked fine then and you would never know something was wrong with him.’
Despite a post on Simpson's X page saying that he died surrounded by family, only one unnamed relative was present, his lawyer said this week.
'You have to remember that they've shared O.J. with the world their entire lives,' the attorney said of Simpson's surviving adult children
