After nearly three months, Liam Painey’s friend decides to drop the lawsuit against his father

Roger Nores, a friend of Liam Payne, is stopping his legal dispute with the late singer’s father.

A few months after his passing, the late musician’s friend declared his plan to drop his defamation case against Liam’s father, Geoff Payne.

On October 16, 2024, Liam Payne tragically died after unintentionally falling from a third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Three of the five people who were charged in relation to his death after the incident have since been found not guilty.

The friend of Liam Payne wants to put an end to all of the arguments and concentrate on being productive.

Liam’s friend has made the decision to withdraw his defamation case against Geoff, Liam’s father. Roger stated his desire to move on and concentrate on more fruitful endeavors when he submitted legal filings to dismiss the lawsuit on Wednesday. 

He has stated that he has no intention of taking further action, even though he dismissed the claim without prejudice, meaning that it may be refiled in the future.

After Liam died tragically in October after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Roger first sued Geoff in January, alleging that the elder Payne was making defamatory remarks in the press.

Geoff’s claim that Roger was in charge of taking care of Liam at the time was a major source of controversy, as Roger adamantly rejected this. 

He had originally intended to give Liam’s son Bear any possible litigation winnings, but TMZ revealed that he now just wants to put this chapter behind him and move on.

Roger Nores was exonerated of any involvement in the unexpected death of the former member of One Direction.

According to The Blast, a court decision in February exonerated Roger and two hotel staff members of manslaughter allegations pertaining to Liam’s untimely death. 

When the musician fell from his balcony after a night of drug usage, an autopsy had already determined that he had a deadly combination of drugs in his system. 

Roger and hotel employees, including Gilda Martin, the security chief, and Esteban Grassi, the receptionist, who were charged with the crime alongside Liam’s close friend, won the case. 

Following the verdict, Roger told Rolling Stone that he was relieved to have closure at last and that he could now visit the UK to bid the artist farewell.

Rafael Cuneo Libarona, Roger’s lawyer, concurred with the court’s ruling and reiterated that his client was not at fault for Liam’s passing. The lawyer stressed that he had no legal duty to protect the singer and was only a friend.

According to the singer’s friend, the authorities targeted him because of his death.

A court had earlier decided that there was no proof of hotel employees’ carelessness or negligence in relation to the incidents that resulted in Liam’s death. 

Along with repeatedly denying any culpability for the disaster, Roger, who had been close friends with the late singer for some time, said that Argentine authorities wrongly singled him out as a “scapegoat.” 

He underlined that he had been to the hotel three times on the day of the incident and had only left forty minutes prior, with more than fifteen people in the lobby conversing and making jokes with Liam as he left. 

“I could have never imagined something like this would happen,” stated Roger. He insisted that he was the singer’s close friend rather than her manager.

The ‘Night Changes’ singer’s toxicology findings are revealed.

A study from the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 14 disclosed alarming information about the untimely death of One Direction star Liam, as reported by The Blast. With a blood alcohol content of 2.7 grams per liter, or 0.27%, it was determined that he had drunk a substantial amount of alcohol.

This amount is alarmingly high, according to Alcohol.org, and frequently results in serious symptoms including dizziness and confusion. Alcohol poisoning may have occurred if his blood alcohol content had increased to 0.3% or higher, as amounts as high as 0.4% are known to be potentially lethal.

Liam was found to have a number of narcotics in his system in addition to alcohol, including crack, ketamine, cocaine and its metabolites, and the medicine sertraline. This concoction suggests that the problematic cocktail might have played a role in his premature death.