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In an interview with the New York Post, Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s longtime attorney and estate executor, said that following the infamous running back’s death from cancer last week, he’s fielded requests to study his brain for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), the type of cranial injury suffered by athletes that can lead to violent behavioral changes.
According to the attorney, Simpson’s four children — the youngest two of whom, Sydney and Justin, were born from Nicole Brown Simpson, the notorious athlete’s late wife whom he was acquitted of killing alongside her friend Ron Goldman in 1994 — gave a “hard no” to the thought of postmortem brain testing, which is the only way to diagnose CTE definitively.
“I’ve been getting calls from medical centers that are doing CTE testing asking me for OJ’s brain,” LaVergne told the NY Post. “That is not happening.”
Instead of donating any portion of it to science, Simpson’s family plans to have his entire body cremated, although LaVergne noted that all four of his kids had not yet signed off.