Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'

Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died at the age of 31 after a hotel balcony fall – with images emerging of the hotel room where he was staying showing a shattered television and a room littered in white powder.

Payne was found dead after he fell from the third floor of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Witnesses said the fall happened around 5 pm local time, shortly after he was spotted "acting erratic" in the hotel lobby — smashing his laptop and getting carried back to his room.

Photos obtained by TMZ showed the singer's body on a wooden deck at the hotel, surrounded by tables and chairs.

Other images have spread online showing Payne's suite strewn with white powder and what appeared to be drugs paraphernalia including foil.

Officials and first responders are at the scene, where a red tent has been placed over Payne's body.

Payne had seemingly posted to Snapchat just an hour before the fall as a clip showed the music star chatting with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy while in Argentina.

However, sources told the outlet Payne and his girlfriend arrived in Argentina on September 30. While, she left on October 14th, he stayed behind and checked into the hotel.

La Nacion reported police were recently called to the hotel because of "an aggressive man who could be under the effects of drugs and alcohol."

As of this moment none of the members of One Direction have commented on Payne's death.

The singer had been in Argentina recently for a Niall Horan concert earlier in the month, reuniting with his fellow One Direction bandmates at the show.

Payne, along with Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, and Louis Tomlinson became megastars after joining forces in 2010 following their appearance on The X Factor.

The band released numerous hits to plenty of fanfare before announcing they were taking a hiatus in 2015. Payne would go on to release his debut solo album in 2019.

RadarOnline.com previously revealed Payne had temporarily ditched his plan to create an exposé-style documentary about One Direction due to a series of health issues and a renewed focus on his music career.

A source said: "This time last year, Liam was all fired up about his comeback and teasing new music, but then his health deteriorated.

"He has hours and hours of footage, and there was interest from various production companies, but in the end, he decided not to take things further."

The singer's death comes after his ex, Maya Henry, "issued a cease and desist last week to Liam Payne" and "retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her" after accusing him of repeatedly attempting to contact her from multiple phone numbers.

In a TikTok video posted earlier this month, she said: "Ever since we broke up, he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it's always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it's gonna come from."

She also accused him of "weaponizing" and "preying" on his most "loyal" One Direction fans.

The ex claimed: "Everything gets swept under the rug, everything gets hidden for him. I don't know who the h---'s behind all of this, but nothing ever comes out about him. It's hard when you have these people jumping down your throat for speaking the truth on things that have happened."

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