By New York Post (World News) | Created at 2024-11-26 18:10:07 | Updated at 2024-11-26 20:32:29
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Liam Payne texted his friend and designated caretaker about using drugs and having sex with prostitutes just hours before he fell to his death — with prosecutors wanting to try the pal for “abandonment” for failing to save him from his spiraling drug abuse.
Argentine businessman Roger Nores, 35, who was one of the three men charged in connection to the One Direction star’s death after he plummeted from a hotel balcony in a drug-induced daze last month, checked in on Payne a total of three times the day he died, Argentinian prosecutors claimed in court documents obtained by TMZ.
Around 7 a.m. on Oct. 16, an already intoxicated Payne texted Nores and said, “Dude I think I’m going to f—k a hooker,” prosecutors said. About two and a half hours later, Payne texted him and asked for “6 grams” — presumably meaning cocaine.
Payne and Nores had breakfast together at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, where Payne was drinking whiskey. Afterwards, Payne went back to his trashed hotel room and frantically searched for a “powder,” according to a maid who was in the room.
A pair of prostitutes showed up to Payne’s room around 11:30 p.m. and had sex with him, they told police. He also asked them for cocaine because he was all out.
He would later ask a hotel employee for “another 7 grams for today” around 2 p.m.
Nores left Payne’s room shortly after 4 p.m., and around the same time hotel staff reported hearing Payne smash things. Someone from the hotel tried calling Nores, but he did not answer.
When the prostitutes asked for payment, Payne freaked out and punched the television. Nores came back to the hotel around 3:45 p.m. to pay the women, by which time staffers noticed the singer appeared “visibly drunk.”
Nores texted Payne, “Are you ok?” at 4:25 p.m. but the star did not respond.
Nores has maintained that Payne appeared fine when he left him at the hotel about an hour before he fell to his death from the balcony, sources close to Nores told TMZ.
Moments before Payne’s fatal plunge, a hotel worker called 911 and said they feared for his safety after they had to drag him through the hotel lobby and lock him in his room. The employee indicated that he could hurt himself using the balcony to escape.
Nores was charged with abandonment for allegedly failing to inform the musician’s family that he had relapsed on drugs. He testified as a witness, which led a judge to decide that he had allegedly breached his duty of care with respect to Payne.
Authorities interviewed Payne’s father, who said that Nores volunteered to takeover as Payne’s caretaker in May and arrange for him to go to rehab, the documents state.
Payne’s dad said it was important that Payne always stayed busy and was never alone in his recovery.
Earlier this month, Nores, said he “never abandoned Liam.”
“I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened,” he said.
“There were over 15 people at the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him when I left.”
The prosecutors who wrote the court document are national prosecutors — however a judge ruled any case involving alleged “abandonment” must be handled by local prosecutors, meaning they have no legal means to pursue the charges, TMZ reported.
To date, no charges have been filed by local prosecutors. The national prosecutors appealed the judge’s ruling, but the appeal was rejected.
