Retired NFL star John Elway will not face charges for the death of his long-time friend and business partner, Jeff Sperbeck, after Sperbeck’s fatal fall from a golf cart Elway was driving, police told 9News on Friday and confirmed in a press release Monday. Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco told the outlet that since Sperbeck’s death on April 30, the police found “nothing new” and that “there was nothing criminal, it was what we’ve been saying all along that this was a tragic accident.” Elway, Sperbeck, and their partners were returning from a party at the Madison Club in La Quinta, California, when Sperbeck, who was standing at the back of the golf cart, fell onto the asphalt and sustained a traumatic head injury. Sperbeck died four days later. He was 62. According to the police report, there was no swerving or horseplay, and Elway was not driving drunk. “There’s no explanation as to why [Sperbeck] fell off; he just fell off,” Bianco said. Sperbeck had been a marketing representative for Elway since the 1990s, when Elway was the star quarterback for the Denver Broncos. The two became close in the decades following and became partners in several businesses and co-founded 7Cellars Wine.
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