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(Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage)A hotel worker Brian Nahuel Paiz arrested in Argentina in connection with the singer Photo by Liam Payne death.
The 24-year-old waiter was charged last month with allegedly giving the late One Direction star drugs before his collapse.
Paiz was arrested at his home outside Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday, January 3 and could face between four and 15 years in prison. People again TMZ. Per TMZPaiz was under house arrest when local authorities raided his home.
People reported on Friday, January 3 that both Paiz and his lawyer Fernando Madeo Facente they maintain that the hotel worker is innocent.
One of the three suspects being investigated for their alleged involvement in the death of Liam Payne is speaking out just weeks after the singer’s fall. During an interview with Telefe Noticias from Argentina that aired on Saturday, November 9, Brian Nahuel Paiz, who is accused of giving Payne drugs, denied selling drugs to the late singer. Paiz, 24 years old […]
Payne, who rose to fame as one of the five members of the boy band One Direction, died on October 16, 2024 after falling from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires. He was 31 years old.
A preliminary autopsy identified “multiple trauma” as the cause of Payne’s death, including bleeding to the chest, skull and abdomen. A partial autopsy revealed multiple drugs were reportedly found in his system at the time of his death, including traces of “pink cocaine” – a mixture of methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA – cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack.
Paiz was one of five people indicted on Monday, December 30 by Argentina’s National Office of Criminal Prosecution and Corrections in connection with Payne’s death.
In addition to Paiz, a CasaSur employee Ezequiel Pereyra He was also charged with supplying drugs to Payne before his death.
Meanwhile, Payne’s friend Roger Nores he is among those facing murder charges, as well Esteban Grassithe receptionist at the CasaSur Palermo hotel, and the hotel’s head of security Gilda Martin.
During the interview with the Argentines Telefe Noticias which aired in November 2024, Paiz denied that he sold drugs to the late singer. Paiz said he first met Payne when he ate at a restaurant where Paiz worked in Puerto Madero in the weeks before his death.
According to Paiz, Payne was “already high on drugs and not eating anything” at the restaurant.
He continued, “We exchanged information and saw each other that night. Everything was normal.”
Samir Hussein/Getty Images for Atlantis The Royal An investigation into Liam Payne’s death could soon lead to the arrest of two men who allegedly supplied the singer with drugs. Police may arrest Brian Nahuel Paiz and Ezequiel Pereyra during the holidays, a court reporter told Us Weekly on Wednesday, December 11. […]
Paiz insisted, “I never gave Liam drugs,” adding that the couple planned to meet at the “Hyatt in Palermo” on October 2. They met again at the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires on October 13.
“We used drugs together, but I never took drugs from him or accepted money,” he said, adding that he and Payne still have text messages to arrange their second meeting.
Payne’s funeral was held in Amersham, England, on Wednesday, November 20. Payne’s former One Direction bandmate — Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik again Niall Horan – were among those present.