Liam Payne and Niall Horan crossed paths just before the “Strip That Down” singer’s death on October 16, 2024 — proving that their friendship was strong even after One Direction split.

Local police said Payne was declared dead on the spot after falling from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires.

Following the 31-year-old’s death on Wednesday, his friends and former collaborators have shared their shock and grief.

Liam Payne's preliminary cause of death has been revealed after the singer died at 31 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.

One Direction was one of the last boy bands from the age of mass-audience linear television and one of the first of the social media era

Former One Direction member Liam Payne's fans gathered outside a Buenos Aires hotel Oct. 16, where the singer was found dead after falling from the third floor.

For Gen Z and millennials who grew up alongside the British boyband One Direction, the death of singer Liam Payne is especially devastating. Even for those who were not "Directioners," Payne's death comes as an overwhelming shock,

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne died outside a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, local newspaper La Nacion reported on Wednesday. The 31-year-old British musician was found dead after falling from the hotel's third floor,

Fans, music-industry figures and fellow musicians are paying tribute to former One Direction member Liam Payne