Falling during the night of Friday to Saturday, the official press release from Malcolm LaVergne, the longtime lawyer ofOJ Simpson and executor of his estate, puts an end to all the questions that had persisted since the death of his client on April 10: the former American football star died of prostate cancer, as Vanity Fair already announced several days ago. In May 2023, the former American football star revealed that he had cancer, without specifying its nature, while suggesting that he had entered into remission and that the disease was now behind him. . But, contradicting these latest declarations, his public appearances are becoming more and more rare, and when he is seen on January 22 in the streets of Los Angeles, he is very weakened, tired, and using a handbag. cane for walking. A few days before his death, OJ Simpson was released from the hospital where he was being treated and was able to return home… to end his days surrounded by his family and loved ones.
“Even at the time, I was pretty sure it was prostate cancer,” Malcolm LaVergne admits today in People. OJ thought he had conquered the disease, and I, too, ended up believing it with him. But with cancer, you never really know…” According to a global WHO study dating from February 2024, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in menafter lung cancer.
Accused in 1994 of the double murder of his partner Nicole Brown Simpson and his friend Ronald Goldman, Orenthal James Simpson was ultimately acquitted a year later in what the media called “the trial of the century”. But “The juice”, as US journalists have long nicknamed it because of its initials corresponding to “Orange Juice”, is not finished with his troubles with the law. Arrested in Las Vegas (Nevada) in 2007 for organized gang robbery and armed robbery in a casino, he was sentenced to 33 years in prison, and is serving an irreducible prison sentence of 9 years in a Nevada prison. Released since 2017, the former NFL idol with the devastating smile and smooth voice had finished by keeping away from the media noise by leaving the news columns, while continuing to post on social networks some relevant analyzes and comments on the evolution of American football in his country. The real cause of his death puts an end to it to a romantic life in the form of a roller coaster, where OJ Simpson was initially adored for his sporting exploits on the field, then hated by a large part of America, despite everything holding him responsible and guilty for the double murder of June 12, 1994.
