In step with the report, witnesses say the singer fell from his third-floor balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Lodge in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They add, “It’s unclear if it was intentional or unintended.”

Sources reportedly suggested the outlet he was performing “erratic” throughout the lodge lobby earlier throughout the day, and smashed his laptop computer pc.

He leaves behind a son, 7-year-old Bear, who he shared with singer Cheryl.

Payne, 31, was in Argentina earlier this month at a stay efficiency for his former bandmate, Niall Horan.

He moreover posted about being in Argentina on Snapchat shortly sooner than his dying, sharing motion pictures from his time there with girlfriend Kate Cassidy. His remaining submit confirmed the two posing collectively. In one amongst his posts he wrote, “Utterly glad I acquired some time away”; in a single different, he added, “Lovely day in Argentina.”

Throughout the motion pictures, however, they talk about Cassidy returning residence to Florida — whereas she posted two days about about being “once more throughout the sunshine state” — suggesting they’ve been doable pre-scheduled.

The singer shot to fame at 16 when he, Niall, Harry Sorts, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson have been grouped collectively on The X think about 2010. Whereas they didn’t win the reality rivals sequence, as quickly as the current wrapped, Cowell signed the band to his label Syco Music they normally went on to alter into in all probability the best selling boy groups of all time.

The band misplaced Malik in 2015 when he left to pursue a solo music occupation, they then break up for good a yr later.

Payne launched his debut album, LP1, in December 2019 — with hit singles “Strip That Down,” “Get  Low” and “Mattress room Floor.” In 2018, he moreover appeared on the soundtrack for Fifty Shades Freed, singing “For You” with Rita Ora.

Following his dying, Fifty Shades author E.L. James shared her condolences on social media, writing, “I’m heartbroken to take heed to of the tragic passing of Liam Payne. I can barely think about it. Sincere condolences to his family.”

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