A new 3D reconstruction of Liam Payne’s hotel room shows the disorder surrounding the former One Direction star during the final hours before his death in Buenos Aires.
The digital model recreates the third-floor suite at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, where Payne fell from a balcony on October 16, 2024. It depicts a smashed television, bottles, scattered belongings and apparent drug-related items across the room.
Among the details shown are burnt sections of Coca-Cola cans, foil, a lighter, a candle and tablets arranged on a sofa. The reconstruction also highlights damage to furniture and objects in the suite, although the presence and identity of individual substances cannot be established from the images alone.
The reconstruction of Liam Payne’s hotel room
Photographs taken after the 31-year-old singer’s death showed the room in severe disarray, with the television screen broken and items strewn across the floor. The 3D model brings the separate images together to illustrate the layout of the suite and the position of the damaged objects.
Argentine prosecutors previously said police found substances, alcohol and destroyed property in the room. Hotel staff had also contacted emergency services shortly before Payne’s death, reporting concerns about a guest who was behaving erratically and damaging items inside his room.
Payne had been staying at the hotel in the Palermo district of the Argentine capital when he fell from the balcony. Emergency responders found him in the hotel’s internal courtyard, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A forensic examination concluded that he died from multiple injuries caused by the fall. Toxicology tests found alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant in his system in the period before his death.
The circumstances surrounding Payne’s final hours led to a criminal investigation into the supply of drugs and the actions of people around him. Argentine prosecutors later pursued charges against two men accused of supplying cocaine to the singer, with the case moving towards an oral trial.
The reconstruction does not establish what happened immediately before Payne went over the balcony. It provides a visual account of the room described by investigators as being in a state of extreme disorder as they examined the events leading up to his death.
