The paper The Tits alternative for $\operatorname{Out}(F_n)$ I by Bestvina, Feighn and Handel and the paper Automorphisms of free groups and Outer space by Vogtmann both state that $\operatorname{Aut}(F_n)$ and $\operatorname{Out}(F_n)$ are not linear groups for $n \geq 3$ respectively $n \geq 4$. They both cite The automorphism group of a free group is not linear by Formanek and Procesi. This text proves the claim about the automorphism group of a free group, but does not mention the claim about the outer automorphism group.
I was wondering if some properties about linear groups imply this result, but I couldn't figure out what property would. Any help would be appreciated.
Once again, not really sure if this is the right place to post this question. If not, I'll take it down (or if someone knows how to relocate it to mathstack, that would be great too)