O.J. Simpson’s cause of death revealed two weeks after passing

The NFL player and Heisman Trophy recipient had been battling with disease since May 2023.

According to his longtime lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, the former Hall of Fame football player and acquitted murderer, died from metastatic prostate cancer, as confirmed to People magazine on April 26.

Simpson's family announced his death on X (formerly Twitter) on April 11, one day after he passed away at the age of 76.

Simpson had been battling cancer since announcing in May 2023 that he had the disease.

"I was pretty certain it was prostate cancer; ultimately, that was the cause," LaVergne said.

"He thought he had beaten it," LaVergne added. "I thought this was done, but you know how cancers go. They come back, and they come back with a vengeance."

Simpson was a Heisman Trophy recipient and the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season in 1973.

Simpson, a Heisman Trophy recipient and the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single season in 1973, was known for his outstanding achievements on the field. However, he became more infamous for his controversial double-murder trial, known as the “Trial of the Century.”

In 1995, Simpson was acquitted of the brutal 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman at her Los Angeles, California, home, after an 11-month trial filled with courtroom drama and bombshell revelations.

Simpson was cremated on April 17 at Palm Mortuary in downtown Las Vegas, as previously confirmed by LaVergne to The Associated Press.