Two Argentine escorts who were with Liam Payne in the last hours of his life have told how the star refused to pay them.
In sworn statements before the Buenos Aires prosecutor, the women, both 25 years old and who admit to practicing prostitution, said they were booked for a client at the CasaSur hotel through an online escort service.
They arrived at the hotel at 11:30 a.m. and left at 4 p.m. They expected to leave the hotel earlier, but they stayed there because they claimed they had not been paid, according to sources close to the investigation.
The couple said the singer did not use drugs while he was with them and seemed normal. “We drank alcohol,” the two women said.
They gave their testimony Wednesday night, just hours after Payne’s body was discovered. A source said: “The witnesses were cooperative, not only in their statements but also by offering access to their phones.”
Liam Payne died at the age of 31 after falling from a hotel balcony on Wednesday. The star is pictured drinking mocktails at the same US bar where he met girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
A drone view shows part of the CasaSur hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Liam Payne fans cry outside the Casa Sur Hotel where the British pop singer fell to his death on Wednesday.
The prosecution has also questioned three employees of the Casa Sur hotel to reconstruct the incident, according to the Argentine media. Clarion.
Police in the capital said Payne’s hotel room was “in complete disarray” with “several items broken”, adding that a whiskey bottle, a lighter and a mobile phone had been recovered from the inner courtyard of the hotel where he was staying. found his body.
One Direction fans and celebrities paid tribute to Payne, while others mourned his death at a vigil outside the hotel where they lit candles and laid flowers.
The singer died from multiple traumas and “internal and external hemorrhages,” according to an autopsy report.
Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 16 said it was investigating the incident as an “inconclusive death” following the report.
Meanwhile, staff revealed they were concerned about the star’s access to a balcony before her fall.
Employees reportedly feared the 5ft 10in star was so drunk that she could easily fall over the balcony’s glass railing, which is said to be at a height of around 4ft and was “easy to fall.” “.
People stand next to tributes left outside the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, where Liam was found dead on Thursday.
In today’s photo the judicial morgue in Buenos Aires, where Liam Payne’s body is being held.
Forensic police arrive at the hotel where Liam Payne died in Buenos Aires on Wednesday
Argentine police now hypothesize that he was “going through some type of outbreak as a result of substance abuse” before his death.
The star fell 45 feet from the third floor to the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in Argentina’s capital on Wednesday at 5pm local time (9pm UK time), before doctors confirmed his death.
In the lead-up to his death, a panicked hotel worker made two calls and on the first said: “We have a guest who is crazy on drugs and is destroying everything in his room.” We need someone to come.
He then called again after the line went dead and said, “I don’t know if the guest’s life is in danger.” The room has a balcony and we are afraid that he might do something.’
Payne was said to have been “acting erratically in the hotel lobby and smashed his laptop” before he “had to be taken back to his room”, according to local media.
Police at the reception of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires after the fall of Liam Payne
Fans wait outside the hotel on Wednesday following the star’s shocking death.
Police officers are seen standing outside the Casa Sur hotel on Wednesday shortly after the singer’s death.
Seconds later the employee, who identified himself as Esteban, added: ‘Just send an ambulance, just an ambulance.’ Workers had heard a loud sound in the yard before the singer’s body was discovered shortly after 5pm local time (9pm UK time).
The singer died from 25 injuries sustained in his fall that caused “internal and external hemorrhages,” preliminary autopsy results revealed, and the “head injuries alone are sufficient to cause death.”
Doctors announced that the singer “did not adopt a reflex posture” during his fall, suggesting that he may have been fully or semi-conscious at the time of his death.
Last night, guests staying at the same hotel as Payne shared memories of the moments before his death, including hearing “violent noises” and a “scream.”
One of them, Doug Jones, told the BBC: “I thought they were working on the room.” There was a lot of noise, like heavy lifting, like banging, a lot of loud, violent noises, I thought.
Payne said he was “happy to have some time off” less than an hour before he fell to his death.
Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, posted a photo of the couple on her Instagram last August.
Heartbreaking video shows Liam singing and dancing at Horan’s concert in Argentina just days before he was found dead.
(From left) One Direction band members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne in 2010.
‘And I saw people from the hotel going in and out of that room, so I thought they were working in the room.
“Then around 4:00 pm, 4:30 pm, I started hearing more noise, I was still working and I heard a very loud, violent scream around 4:45 pm, 5:00 pm.”
Hotel staff raised the alarm at 5:04 p.m. after Payne fell. An ambulance arrived at 5:11 p.m. and Payne was later certified dead.
Payne’s One Direction toured the world and had five chart-topping albums, as well as four number one singles in the UK charts with hit songs including Little Things.
Payne, who was born in Wolverhampton, released his debut solo album LP1 in 2019, which included the songs Polaroid and Strip That Down featuring Quavo.