
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne has died after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires. Pablo Polisicchio, communications director for the Buenos Aires Security Ministry, said the late 31-year-old singer “jumped from the balcony of his room” on the third floor of the Casasur Palermo hotel.
Now authorities report that the late 31-year-old singer spent the last 2 hours leading up to his death with two women he allegedly met through an “escort” website. The women, both 25, told local authorities that they had been drinking with Payne in a Casasur hotel room before an argument over payment began. As La Nación reported, they had left the room about an hour before Payne’s fatal fall.
“They left Payne’s room just before 4 p.m. [and] “The actual hotel left around that time because there was a problem, because Payne didn’t want to pay them,” said an unnamed official involved in the investigation. la nación newsThe women also said that the singer seemed “normal” before his departure.
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Both prostitutes were very cooperative with the authorities
The women (names have not been disclosed) were cooperating in the investigation and had also handed over their cell phones to law enforcement. “The witnesses were cooperative. Not only with his announcements, but he also gave us access to his cell phone,” a source shared with the outlet.
The escort connection was revealed in an autopsy report released Thursday, although initially, the women were not identified as sex workers. Specifically, the singer was traveling in Argentina with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
Just before his fatal fall around 5 p.m., Payne was seen in the hotel lobby around 2 p.m. having a heated argument with a woman believed to be one of the escorts. Michael Fleischmann, an American tourist who witnessed the scene, told the Buenos Aires Herald, “‘I’ll give you $20,000 because I can. I have $55 million and I love helping people'”, the singer allegedly kept repeating during the confrontation.
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“He seemed very upset, agitated, a little wild, pacing and pacing around,” Fleishman said. “He seemed very energetic.”
After Payne’s fatal fall from the balcony, authorities described his hotel room as trash and filled with champagne glasses and drug paraphernalia.