Liam Payne hotel staff offered him first-floor room - so tragedy could have been avoided

Liam Payne tragically lost his life at 31 years old after he fell to his death after plunging from a hotel in Argentina - but he almost stayed on a lower floor

Liam Payne's close friend, Roger Nores, was shown a first-floor room that he "liked a lot" before the singer ended up checking into a third-floor suite where he tragically fell to his death after a night of heavy drinking and drug use. Despite being fully booked, hotel managers assured they would do their best to accommodate the artist.

A day later, Liam checked into room 310, two floors above the room Roger had initially preferred. The reason for this change in room allocation remains unclear, but it is speculated that the unavailability of the first-floor room may have led to the singer staying in a room 45ft above the restaurant terrace where he died on October 16.

This information was revealed in an internal hotel memo published by Argentinian media today. Interestingly, the unnamed employee at CasaSur Palermo Hotel who wrote the memo referred to Mr Nores as Liam's manager, despite the businessman's denial of such a role.

The memo was sent out at 8.10pm on October 11, a day before Liam checked in, and was titled 'Liam Payne - One Direction. '. Four men, including head of security Gilda Martin, have been charged with manslaughter.

Liam died age 31 (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

An email, written in Spanish and published by the reputable Argentinian news site Infobae, translates to: "Good afternoon. Today one of former One Direction singer Liam Payne’s managers showed up, requesting a suite from Monday October 14 to Friday October 18. We showed him room 110 which the manager liked a lot. We informed him we didn’t have any availability but we also told him we were going to do everything possible to generate the corresponding availability. He left us the following contact details so we could let him know when we did have availability and what the rates were."

The name Roger Nores, labelled as 'Manager', was mentioned towards the end of the email along with assistant manager Lulu Miranda - previously referred to in reports about the Liam Payne investigation as a pop star and friend of Mr Nores.

He fell from the hotel in Argentina(Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Miranda, a Los Angeles-born artist with an Argentinian diplomat father and Brazilian mother, has lived in Buenos Aires since her teenage years. She is not among those charged last month by judge Laura Bruniard and there is no current suggestion she will be accused of any wrongdoing or that she was acting as Liam’s assistant manager in any official or unofficial capacity.

Judge Bruniard, in her indictment ruling, accused Mr Nores, who is currently banned from leaving Argentina due to the charges. The man accused of neglecting his duty of care towards a famous singer, leading to his untimely passing, is facing severe allegations of "abandoning him to his fate, knowing he couldn’t fend for himself, aware he suffered multiple additions to alcohol and cocaine and fully conscious of the state of intoxication, vulnerably and defenceless he was in."

Business tycoon Mr Nores challenged the narrative during a TMZ doc that probed into pop star Liam Payne's life and death, claiming the 'Strip That Down' singer was "in good spirits and perfectly balanced" on his final day, dismissing talk of erratic or drunken behaviour preluding his fatal tumble.

He is sorely missed

Having consistently claimed he had no part as Liam’s unofficial manager—a crucial point for the case against him—Nores defended his actions by stating: "I never abandoned Liam, I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened."

There were over 15 people at the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him when I left. I could have never imagined something like this would happen. I’ve given my statement to the prosecutor on October 17 as a witness and I haven't spoken to any police officer or prosecutor ever since. I wasn't Liam's manager. He was just my very dear friend."

Now it's emerged that Mr Nores gave the courts a written affirmation arguing that he "wasn’t Liam’s doctor, lawyer, representative or therapeutic companion" and that their relationship remained purely personal. .

Many fans paid tribute to Liam(Image: AFP via Getty Images)

An Argentine news outlet has stated that the memo was not written by the businessman himself, but rather by a hotel employee who may have misinterpreted the situation. The employee reportedly included the businessman's name and title in the email.

Meanwhile, Argentine prosecutors have released a statement referring to Liam's friend, Roger Nores, as the "victim's representative", identifying him only by his initials R. L. N.

Judge Laura Bruniard has indicted hotel executives Mr. Grassi and Mr. Martin, citing their decision to move Liam from the lobby to his third-floor room despite his intoxicated state, which she believes "created a legally unacceptable risk to his life" with "foreseeable" consequences.

Roger refutes claims he was his manager(Image: @_derekmilton/tiktok)

The three men face prison sentences ranging from one to five years if convicted, although they may be eligible for suspended sentences. Two other suspects, 24 year old waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz and 21 year old suspended hotel worker Ezequiel David Pereyra, have been charged with selling Liam cocaine and could face prison sentences of four to 15 years if convicted.

Pereyra, who had been evading police, turned himself in yesterday after a failed attempt to locate and arrest him for pre-trial custody. Paiz denies any wrongdoing, claiming he took drugs with Liam but did not sell them to him.

The man, who insists he never sold cocaine, was nicked last Friday and has been remanded in custody. The other three suspects have been allowed to remain free but had to hand over assets to avoid jail time.