Liam Payne is dead after a fall from the balcony of his hotel in Argentina… TMZ has learned.
The former One Direction singer died on Wednesday night. Several witnesses from the hotel where he was staying in Buenos Aires say that Liam fell from his room on the 3rd floor of the Hotel CasaSur Palermo. We don’t know if it was intentional or accidental.
TMZ obtained a photo showing Liam’s body on a wooden deck at the hotel with tables and chairs nearby. We’re not showing his entire body, but you can clearly see his tattoos – a clock on his left forearm and a scorpion on his abdomen.
Witnesses say it happened just after 5pm in Buenos Aires… and that Liam was acting erratically in the hotel lobby earlier – he broke his laptop and had to be carried back to his room.
Police and other first responders are around the hotel now… and authorities have set up a red tent over the body as they begin their investigation into Liam’s death.
02/10/24
He was in Argentina recently for a Niall Horan show earlier this month, and 1D’s bandmates reunited at the show.
Liam was just 16 when he joined One Direction… and the group became the biggest boyband in the world after their 2010 debut on “The X Factor.” The band finally broke up in 2015, and he was considered one of its main songwriters.
As we reported… Liam revealed in June 2021 that he battled addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs at one point when One Direction was on tour and things got so bad he had “severe” suicidal thoughts.
Earlier this week, there was reports about Liam’s ex-fiancee Maia Henrique claiming he left her after asking her to have an abortion. Her lawyers were trying to send her a cease and desist letter to stop contacting her.
02/20/20
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It is unclear at this time whether this triggered his erratic behavior at the hotel.
Liam was just 31 years old.
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