Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, dies after falling out of a hotel in Buenos Aires | People

<a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/former-hairstylist-one-direction-slaps-out-of-school-entertainment/" title="Former hairstylist One Direction slaps out of school | Entertainment”>Liam Payne, a 31-year-old British singer, died this Wednesday after falling out of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The reasons why Payne, who was a member of the famous band One Direction, fell from the third floor of the hotel, called CasaSur and located in the Palermo neighborhood, are unknown, according to official sources told EL PAÍS. The director of the city’s emergency service, Alberto Crescenti, confirmed the death, explaining that Payne suffered serious head trauma after the fall into the hotel’s backyard.

According to the Ministry of Security of the city of Buenos Aires, the personnel of police station 14B went to the accommodation due to a call to 911. As they explain, the personnel of the police station “were directed to the hotel by a call to 911 where they were informed about an aggressive man who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.” When the officers arrived at the establishment, located at number 6032 Costa Rica Street, the manager explained to them that he “felt a loud noise” in the internal rear area of ​​the establishment, and when they went to the place, they found the death of the man. , who had fallen from the balcony of his room on the third floor. Under the presence of the Criminalistics Unit, the prosecutor’s office will take charge of the investigation into the artist’s death.

More informationPolice cordon off the entrance to the CasaSur hotel, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne at the establishment, on October 16, 2024.Mar Centenera

The CasaSur is a relatively new four-star hotel in the area, it opened in 2015. After learning of Payne’s death, it has been invaded by police, but also by crowds of curious onlookers, more than 200. The entire central street of Costa Rica remains cut off to traffic by the police. Numerous media and citizens have approached the doors of the hotel, as well as followers of Payne and One Direction, which was active between 2010 and 2015. “It hit us hard, One Direction was part of our adolescence. I camped out for two nights to see them years ago, it’s like someone dying,” says Martina di Lalla, a fan of the band who perfectly remembers the night in May 2015 when she went to see the band, almost a month ago. decade. “Half an hour ago I had uploaded a story [en Instagram]. Until it is clarified, we are not going to stay calm as fans.”

Members of the press gather in front of the CasaSur hotel, in the Palermo neighborhood, Buenos Aires (Argentina), where Liam Payne, member of One Direction, died on October 16, 2024.Mar Centenera

Payne had been in the country for several days, as fans and local media had made known. On October 2, he had gone to see his former partner Niall Horan at the concert of his tour The Show: Live on Tour held at the Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires. The singer had traveled to Argentina accompanied by his girlfriend, the American influencer Kate Cassidy, with whom he had been dating for at least two years and with whom, after many years of hiding his relationships, he could comfortably be seen in public. “I’m at a point in my life where I realize that it’s not worth sacrificing my happiness just because someone can see something,” he told MTV News.

Before dating Cassidy, he had known romances, including a relationship with fellow singer Cheryl Cole, who was a member of the girl band Girls Aloud. The couple met in 2008, when she was 25 years old and he was 15, and when she was a judge on the television contest X Factor, to which he appeared. He didn’t succeed, but he returned in 2010 and that was the seed of One Direction and a friendship that, in 2015, became a relationship. In March 2017, Cole and Payne had a son named Bear. The couple separated a few months later.

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