Overview
- Newly published sworn statements from two sex workers describe a payment dispute, erratic behaviour and property damage in Liam Payne’s hotel room on October 16, 2024, hours before he fell from a third‑floor balcony and died.
- Toxicology reports confirmed cocaine, alcohol and the sedative Klonopin in Payne’s system at the time of the fall, a finding now cited alongside the witnesses’ accounts.
- The witnesses said Payne offered then smashed a gold Rolex and punched the room television, and that he at times pleaded with them, sang and sought cocaine during the encounter.
- Argentine prosecutors have charged two local men with supplying the narcotics found in Payne’s system; both defendants deny the charges, were held then bailed, and face trial.
- The UK coroner has adjourned the full inquest while awaiting further documents and translations from Argentina, and the newly released statements are likely to shape what evidence is sought next.