Two women who were allegedly seen visiting Liam Payne’s hotel room hours before his death have been questioned by police, it can be revealed.
The two women, identified by the Argentine press as Aldana Serrano, 31, and Lucila Goitea, 27, gave sworn statements to the state prosecutor investigating the singer’s death at a boutique hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
Sources close to the investigation have described them as “cooperative witnesses.”
The couple gave statements just hours after Payne’s body was discovered after she fell from the balcony of her three-story suite at the CasaSur hotel on Wednesday afternoon.
The women said they arrived at the hotel at 11:30 a.m. and left at 4:00 p.m., although they had hoped to leave earlier.
Police have questioned two women who were allegedly seen visiting Liam Payne’s hotel room hours before his death.
The two women, identified by the Argentine press as Aldana Serrano (left), 31, and Lucila Goitea (right), 27, have given sworn statements to the state prosecutor investigating the singer’s death.
This is believed to be the last photo of Liam Payne, waiting by the lifts before returning to his hotel room and falling from the balcony.
The billionaire was seen arguing with a woman on the street about money on the day he died, according to a CasaSur hotel guest who recounted how the singer seemed “a little wild” while arguing with a woman about money.
Michael Fleischmann of the United States said the former boy band star kept telling the woman: “I’ll give you $20,000 just because I can.”
“I have $55 million and I like to help people.”
During the “very tense situation,” the woman is said to have spoken in Spanish and the hotel manager translated the conversation for Payne around 2 p.m. local time.
Fleischmann told the Buenos Aires Herald that he only recognized the man “with an English accent who seemed to be causing a disturbance” in the lobby as Payne until news of his death broke.
He added that the singer “seemed very upset, agitated, a little wild, pacing and pacing” and “seemed very full of energy.”
It was previously reported that Argentine detectives had questioned three hotel employees and two female companions.
Liam Payne fans cry outside the Casa Sur Hotel where the British pop singer fell to his death on Wednesday.
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
Payne fell 45 feet from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel on Wednesday at 5pm local time (9pm UK time), before doctors confirmed his death.
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.” “.
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.
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.
(From left) One Direction band members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne in 2010.
Argentine police now hypothesize that he was “going through some type of outbreak as a result of substance abuse” before 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.