O.J. Simpson was cremated this week at a mortuary in Las Vegas, and his household remains to be finalizing funeral plans, in line with a consultant for the household.
There are at the moment no plans for a public memorial, Malcolm LaVergne, a longtime legal professional for Simpson who was appointed executor of his property, advised the Related Press this week.
He advised the outlet that Simpson’s ashes might be given to Simpson’s youngsters “to do with as they please, in line with the needs of their father.”
Simpson, 76, died of most cancers on April 10. Nearly instantly, LaVergne began the method of checking out his consumer’s property.
Simpson’s will, which was filed in Clark County court docket in Nevada, notes that Simpson’s private property had been positioned right into a revocable dwelling belief created in January. The need, not like the belief — which has not been made public — doesn’t element Simpson’s belongings or his needs for any possessions left behind.
Simply how a lot cash Simpson had on the finish of his life stays a thriller.
Simpson’s loss of life might open a window for the households of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to gather the multimillion-dollar settlement they had been awarded following the pair’s slaying.
Simpson, as soon as a soccer celebrity, was acquitted for the deaths of his ex-wife and her pal in a prison court docket in 1995.
A civil court docket jury later discovered Simpson chargeable for the deaths and ordered him to pay their households greater than $33 million, although their legal professional says they’ve obtained a fraction of the overall.
The quantity owed has ballooned to greater than $100 million with curiosity.
Whereas it’s unclear how a lot the household might obtain, LaVergne advised The Occasions this week {that a} declare filed in opposition to Simpson’s property by Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, is “going to be a sound declare that’s going to be accepted.”
LaVergne advised the Related Press that one of many closing occasions he visited his longtime consumer was simply earlier than Easter.
“He was awake, alert and chilling,” the legal professional advised the outlet. “He’s on the sofa … consuming a beer and watching TV. And in order that was the final time we had efficient back-and-forth conversations. He’s normally the one who retains me up on the information … so we had been simply catching up on the information then.”
