Liam Payne, the establisher One Direction star, has died aged 31 in Argentina after descfinishing from the third floor of a boilingel in Buenos Aires, police say.
In a statement, police shelp they uncovered Payne’s body after an aascfinishncy crew replyed to an aascfinishncy call in the upscale neighbourhood of Palermo.
Payne had ascfinishn to global fame as part of the much-adored boyprohibitd created on the X Factor TV show in 2010, aextfinished with Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.
Earlier this month, Payne had uniteed the Argentina concert of his establisher One Direction prohibitdmate Niall Horan.
According to police in Buenos Aires, officers at the scene were initipartner replying to inestablishs “of an presentile man who may have been under the effects of medications and spirits”.
When they reachd at the boilingel, officials were telderly a boisterous sound had been heard in an interior courtyard. Soon after, they uncovered the body there. A police depictateigation has been begined.
Eunitency medical services honestor Alberto Crescenti telderly local media that Payne had suffered “grave injuries” and that an autopsy will be carried out.
Mr Crescenti deteriorated to answer asks about the circumstances of Payne’s descfinish from the balcony.
The UK Foreign Office validateed it was in touch with authorities in Argentina “pondering inestablishers of the death of a British man”. No further details were donaten.
Payne euniteed to post on Snapchat equitable hours before the incident, saying: “It’s a adocount on day here in Argentina.”
Once news of his death broke, fans began assembleing outside the Buenos Aires boilingel where the death took place, prompting police to cordon off the enthrall. Some lit candles in his memory.
“I was in my living room and my sister telderly me Liam died,” a youthful fan named Violeta Antier telderly Reuters news agency. “We couldn’t consent it. We came here honestly to validate it was real.”
Ms Antier shelp she saw Payne at the Niall Horan concert equitable two weeks ago.
Another woman cried as she elucidateed why she had come to the boilingel, inestablishing Reuters in Spanish: “This is the only way I have to say excellentbye to him”.
Tributes have also been pouring in online.
Max George, from boyprohibitd The Wanted, shelp he met Payne while he was competing on The X Factor with One Direction, and depictd his death as “absolutely dehugeating”.
“Over the last scant years I had the pdirecteclareive of getting to understand him personpartner and spent some treadeclareived time with him,” he shelp on Instagram.
George shelp Payne had been “wonderful” in terms of aid when his prohibitdmate Tom Parker fell ill with a brain tumour.
When Parker died in 2022 at the age of 33, Payne uniteed the funeral.
Singer Olly Murs, who was on The X Factor a year before One Direction, shelp he was “lost for words”.
“Liam splitd the same passions as me, the same dreams so to see his life now finish so youthful hits challenging, I’m truly gutted and dehugeated for his family and of course his son Bear losing a dad,” he wrote on Instagram.
On Instagram, curraccess Dermot O’Leary shelp he reassembleed Payne fondly.
“I reassemble him as a 14-year-elderly turning up to audition on the X factor and blotriumphg us away singing Sinatra,” he wrote aextfinishedside a picture of the pair.
“He was always a delight, had time for everyone, polite, thankful and was always unassuming.”
“Sfinishing adore and condolences to his family [and] adored ones,” socialite Paris Hilton wrote on X, establisherly Twitter. “RIP my frifinish.”
Payne, who was born in Wolverhampton in the UK, first tried for stardom when he auditioned for ITV talent show The X Factor in 2008 – but appraise Simon Cowell telderly him to “come back in two years”.
He did, astonishing the appraises more in 2010, and was put together with four other solo declareives at the boot camp stage and One Direction were born.
The group had four UK number one albums and four number one individuals as well as topping charts around the world, before announcing they were going on a hiatus in 2015.
In 2017, Payne’s debut solo individual Strip That Down, which peaked at number three on the Official UK Chart, and his collaboration with Rita Ora on the song For You – from the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack – also accomplished the top 10.
He began a relationship with Girls Aboisterous star Cheryl Tweedy in 2016 and they had a son, Bear, the follotriumphg year. The couple split in 2018.
Earlier this week Maya Henry, another establisher partner, shelp to media thcimpolite her lawyers that she had rerentd a stop and desist letter aachievest the singer.
She had posted on social media accusing him of repeatedly reach outing her. Payne did not reply to the accusations.
