OJ Simpson's body will be cremated next week in Las Vegas and his brain will not be donated to science for research, according to a report.
Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson's longtime lawyer and executor, told the New York Post that his family responded with a "hard no" to requests from scientists that the former NFL star be studied to determine whether he suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that afflicts many retired football players.
"With OJ everything's wild, but I've been getting calls from medical centers that are doing CTE testing asking me for OJ's brain . . . that is not happening," LaVergne told the publication.
"It's just not going to happen. OJ wants all of his body cremated," he added.
LaVergne noted, however, that Simpson's four children have not yet signed off on the cremation paperwork.
"Tuesday is the predicted . . . day that he will actually be cremated," LaVergne said. "That's what OJ wanted. Those are OJ's wishes, and that's what the kids are telling me."
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, who both died in a vicious stabbing attack.
Simpson died Wednesday after a battle with cancer at the age of 76.
