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Posted: 2024-04-15T19:04:32Z | Updated: 2024-04-15T19:04:32Z O.J. Simpson's Brain Won't Be Donated To CTE Research | HuffPost

O.J. Simpson's Brain Won't Be Donated To CTE Research

Many people throughout the years speculated Simpson might have the brain disorder.
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O.J. Simpson looks on during his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada on July 20, 2017. The disgraced former football star died last week at 76.
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O.J. Simpson will be cremated and his brain wont be donated to CTE research.

His entire body, his brain, everything, his fake hips, his fake knees, everything, Malcolm LaVergne, the executor to Simpsons 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 Simpsons family gave a hard no to clinics asking that Simpsons 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. everythings wild, but Ive 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.

Because of Simpsons known violent outbursts he was convicted of spousal abuse in 1989 several people theorized that Simpson might have the brain disorder.

His longtime friend Michael R. Militello told The Buffalo News  that Simpson said he suffered many concussions throughout his football career. 

Jeffrey Felix, a retired prison guard who worked at Lovelock Correctional Facility during Simpsons nine-year stay there for armed robbery and kidnapping, told the New York Post that Simpson would often wake up confused about where he was.

Memory loss is also a symptom of CTE, according to the Mayo Clinic

Dr. Bennet Omalu, who researched CTE in football players, told ABC News in 2016 that Simpson was more likely than not suffering from CTE and that he would bet his medical license on it. 

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