An alleged video of Liam Payne jumping from his Argentina hotel room has gone viral
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 16, at the age of 31, singer Liam Payne, who gained notoriety as a member of the band One Direction, passed away.
Liam Payne had battled addiction before his passing, revealing that he spent 100 days in treatment in 2023.
Is the video of Liam Payne jumping to his death from his Buenos Aires, Argentina third floor hotel room real or fake
About five o’clock in the evening local time, Payne perished after falling from his Buenos Aires, Argentina hotel’s third story. Authorities discovered what looked to be alcohol and narcotic chemicals in his hotel room, according to a news release from the Argentina National Prosecutor’s Office on his postmortem results.
A video purportedly featuring Liam Payne shows a guy falling from a building. Many people believed it was a video of Liam’s last moments because he died after falling from his hotel balcony. That’s what the caption that went with it said.
“Entonces te das cuenta que One Direction no acabรณ un ” 25 de marzo del 2015, ,, realmente acabรณ un 16 de octubre del 2024 #RIPLiamPayne #Liam_Payne ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ pic.twitter.com/EHC5xYhPHq
โ Rajendra Prasad Yadav (@Rajendr15725722) October 17, 2024
But, fact-checkers on the internet quickly pointed out that the footage was from 2023 and that the man in the video was definitely not Liam Payne.
According to a statement, the hotel management reported hearing a loud boom at the back of the establishment. When police came, they discovered that a man had fallen from his room over the balcony. The British singer was believed to have been discovered in the hotel’s internal patio. Emergency personnel verified him dead.
Payne “had jumped from the balcony of his room,” according to the Buenos Aires Security Ministry, which spoke with the Associated Press. Upon arriving at the scene, medical personnel pronounced Payne deceased, citing “extremely serious injuries.”
The Argentina National Prosecutor’s Office released a news release stating that Payne’s cause of death was “polytrauma and internal and external bleeding.”
Graphical Warning : Liam Payne has died at the age of 31 after reportedly falling from a balcony in Argentina. RIP๐ pic.twitter.com/rYBVhd2Gpq
โ Winnie Schola (@WinnieSchola) October 16, 2024
Responses to the passing of Liam Payne
On social media, the British music awards, streaming service Spotify, and US music channel MTV all shared their condolences for the deceased and offered their support to his family and loved ones. In 2017, Payne and British TV personality and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl welcomed a son, Bear.
An employee at the hotel had called the police, demanding immediate assistance with an inebriated visitor before Liam died.