LAS VEGAS -- Former football star and celebrity criminal defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer handling his estate said Wednesday.
Simpson died April 10 at his Las Vegas home at age 76. He had been diagnosed last year with prostate cancer.
Attorney Malcolm LaVergne told The Associated Press that he was present, along with unspecified other people, for the event at Palm Mortuary in downtown Las Vegas on Wednesday morning.
"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.