Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry is ‘in shock’ over his death according to a source close to the influencer.
The One Direction star, 31, fell from a third floor of a hotel in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires.
Now a source close to Henry has told DailyMail.com: ‘Right now she is obviously in shock.’
The model only found out when a member of her team was contacted by a reporter.
Emergency services have erected a red tent outside the hotel.
Several witnesses said Payne had fallen from his room at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel shortly after 5pm on Wednesday.
Reps for Liam Payne’s ex-fiancée Maya Henry told DailyMail.com: ‘Right now she is obviously in shock.’ (pictured: Payne and Henry in 2019 at Paris Fashion Week)
The One Direction star, 31, fell to his death from a third floor of a hotel in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires, on Wednesday
Investigations into the 31-year-old’s death are ongoing.
City ambulance service provider spokesman Alberto Crescenti said he had fallen around 40 meters and suffered ‘severe injuries which were incompatible with life.’
He said: ‘The alarm was raised at 5.04pm local time saying a person was lying in an internal patio at Casa Sur.
‘At 5.11pm an ambulance arrived and the man was certified dead.
‘Afterwards we found out he had been a famous singer. Unfortunately the injuries he had suffered as a result of the fall proved to be fatal. There was no possibility of resuscitating him.’
Just days ago the Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to issue a cease and desist letter to the pop star after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her
She has also accused the Payne of contacting her friends and playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media
Just days ago the Texan model, 23, instructed lawyers to issue a cease and desist letter to the pop star after accusing him of repeatedly contacting her.
The brunette beauty also accused the singer of obsessively contacting her friends and family including her mother Azteca Henry.
Lawyers for the star told MailOnline: ‘Maya Henry issued a cease and desist last week to Payne following the emergence of new and concerning information.
‘She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to represent her. At this time, that is her only comment on the matter.’
Sharing a brutal assessment of Payne with TikTok followers last week, Henry – the daughter of multi-millionaire personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry – claimed he has gone to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to contact her.
‘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 said.
‘He’ll create new iCloud accounts to message me – it’s always a new damn iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, “here we f***ing go again.”
‘Also, he will email me… not only me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone. Is this normal behavior to you?’
Last week the model also accused Payne of playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media to pillory her.
Payne made his first public appearance with Henry in 2019 before their stop-start three-year relationship came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement.
The Strip That Down For Me singer has since moved on with new girlfriend Kate Cassidy, while Maya continues to promote her debut novel, Looking Forward – an art-imitating-life romance about a girl who falls in love with a pop star.
She recently opened up about the ‘fictional elements’ to her book, which she claimed is a fiction novel based on true events from her own life.
On a new podcast, The Internet is Dead, Maya addressed how much of the book is fiction and claimed that fans didn’t think it was about her ex-boyfriend.
