One Direction Member Liam Payne Dies In Fall At 31

TMZ reports:

Liam Payne is dead after a fall from his hotel balcony in Argentina, TMZ has learned. The former One Direction singer died Wednesday evening. Several witnesses at the hotel where he was staying in Buenos Aires tell us Liam fell from his room on the 3rd floor of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel.

We do not know if it was intentional or accidental. Witnesses say this happened shortly after 5 PM in Buenos Aires and that Liam had been acting erratic in the hotel lobby earlier — he smashed his laptop, and had to be carried back to his room.

ABC News reports:

Payne joined One Direction at the group’s inception in 2010 after appearing on the show “X Factor,” going on to become the biggest boy band in the world. The group also included Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson.

Since the band broke up in 2015, Payne began a solo career, releasing the song “Strip That Down” in 2017 and the album “LP1” in 2019.The group became the biggest boy band in the world after their 2010 launch on “The X Factor.”

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