O.J. Simpson's Brain Won't Be Donated To CTE Research
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Many people throughout the years speculated Simpson might have the brain disorder.
O.J. Simpson will be cremated and his brain won’t be donated to CTE research.
“His entire body, his brain, everything, his fake hips, his fake knees, everything,” Malcolm LaVergne, the executor to Simpson’s estate, told People. “That all goes into the crematorium.”
Simpson, who was famously acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife in 1994, died Wednesday from prostate cancer. He played professional football for 11 years.
LaVergne said Simpson’s family gave a “hard no” to clinics asking that Simpson’s brain be donated to test whether Simpson had CTE. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a brain disorder caused by multiple head injuries, resulting in the death of nerve cells and degeneration. The disease is thought to affect many football players, but it can only be confirmed once the person is dead and their brain is studied during an autopsy.
“With O.J. everything’s wild, but I’ve been getting calls from medical centers that are doing CTE testing asking me for O.J.’s brain ... that is not happening,” LaVergne told the New York Post. LaVergne did not immediately return a request for comment.
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