One year after Liam Payne’s death: what is known so far

Payne was born on August 29, 1993 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, and his first time on the massive stage was in The X Factor 2008, when I was just 14 years old.

Without much success at the time, he returned two years later and that’s where it all began: he joined Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik and, under the guidance of judge Simon Cowell, One Direction was born.

Recently, it was learned that the platform Netflix will add to its catalog a project that promises to move millions of fans around the world: a new documentary series about One Directionstarring Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson. Almost a decade after the band’s separation, both musicians decided to meet to review the history of the group and remember Payne.

One year after Liam Payne’s death: what is known

Payne’s life ended unexpectedly with an accidental fall from the third floor of the hotel. CasaSur, Palermo. Immediately, the media, close friends and hotel staff, among others, mobilized. Outside the facilities, fans moved by the loss, raised an altar in his honor asking for justice.

A subsequent autopsy confirmed that the performer died from severe multiple trauma after a fall of more than 12 meterswhich caused internal and external bleeding, as well as injuries incompatible with life. However, it was labeled as “doubtful death.”

It had been said that he was initially destroying his room when he fell from the balcony, but the situation was not clarified, at least not publicly.

Judicially, seven months ago it was decided to appeal the dismissal of three defendants. On the one hand, the Argentine-American businessman Rogelio Noresconsidered by the Public Prosecutor’s Office as the “manager” or “representative” of the victim, for the crime of “facilitation and supply of narcotics.”

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“I never thought this would happen, that everything would end this way,” Payne’s girlfriend said.

In addition, the case has two other defendants: a Casa Sur employee identified by his initials EDP and a waiter whom the musician met in the Puerto Madero neighborhood, BNP, with confirmed prosecution and preventive detention, for the crime of “supply of narcotics”, contemplated in article 5, paragraph “e” of Law No. 23,737 on Narcotic Drugs and which provides for a sentence of 4 to 15 years in prison.

According to the investigation, each of them provided cocaine to Liam on two occasions during his stay at the hotel.and the only money that the musician could get for it was that provided by the alleged manager.

His girlfriend’s first words after her death and the amount she left as an inheritance

A few months after his shocking deaththe artist’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidygave an interview for the first time since the fatal accident. “I think about Liam every second of every day,” she said through tears. “It still doesn’t feel completely real that I’m not here. I’m trying to be the best I can be, but I feel like my life has changed so much.”

“Originally, we thought we were going to be in Argentina for just a week…” he said of his stay in Buenos Aires. “I never thought this would happen, I never thought it would all end this way“, the young woman began the story in dialogue with the British media The Sun.

Cassidy, who had been in a relationship with exOne Direction from 2022, he maintained that He had to return to Miami before Payne because he had to take care of his pet, Nala.

Among the details of the millionaire inheritance that he left him Payne to his family, the British media The Sun and MailOnline confirmed a sum of £28.5 million, which was reduced to 24.2 million after paying off its debts and expenses (approximately US$30 million).