31-year-old British singer and ex-One Direction member Liam Payne was found dead in a Buenos Aires hotel. The musician died after falling from the third floor in the Palermo area. La Nación writes that police arrived at the hotel after the manager reported an “aggressive man” who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The head of the ambulance service, Alberto Cressent, clarified that on October 16 at 17:04 (23:04 Moscow time) through the 911 service, doctors were notified of a person in the hotel courtyard. “At 17:11 (23:11 Moscow time) the nearest ambulance team arrived , which confirmed the man’s death. Then we found out that he was the singer of one of the musical groups. Unfortunately, his injuries were incompatible with life, and we were forced to pronounce him dead. There was no way to resuscitate him,” Crescenti explained. An autopsy had yet to be performed, he said, but “according to what the emergency team saw, he had a basal skull fracture, a very serious wound.” Shortly before his death, Payne published in Snapchat video with your girlfriend. He arrived in Argentina for the concert of his former One Direction colleague Niall Horan, which took place on October 2 in Buenos Aires. In an interview in 2021, Payne shared that at the peak of success, One Direction struggled with depression, as well as drug and alcohol addictions . In the summer of 2023, he said that he had not used illegal substances for about six months. Liam James Payne was born on August 29, 1993 in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK. He became famous for his participation in the group One Direction, where he joined after performing on the show The X-Factor. In 2016, the group broke up and Payne began performing solo. According to the musician, the end of One Direction’s performances was “very scary” for him at first, but later he realized that it was good for him. During his solo career, Payne was able to record two albums. In August 2023, Payne was supposed to go on his first solo tour, but canceled it due to hospitalization with a kidney infection. The ex-One Direction singer has a seven-year-old son from his marriage to singer and TV presenter Cheryl Cole. The couple divorced in 2018.
