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NEW: One Direction Singer’s Cause Of Death Revealed
Medical examiners of the recently deceased One Direction singer Liam Payne announced on Friday that an autopsy has revealed a dangerously illicit drug in his system that may have been a contributing factor in his death.
The entertainment world was shocked when Payne earlier this week was found dead after falling to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he had planned to meet up with another member of his longtime band in order to “square things up,” the New York Post previously reported. Singer Niall Horan was in Buenos Aires for his own show that night when Payne released one of his final Instagram videos saying he had arrived in town to see his old mate. But the night turned deadly for Payne after he ingested what authorities claim was “pink cocaine,” a recreational drug that combines a cocktail of uppers and downers including MDMA, methamphetamine, and ketamine, the latter which killed “Friends” star Matthew Perry in December of 2023.
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Local broadcaster Todo Noticias and TMZ first obtained the preliminary report indicating the One Direction singer had traces of all the drugs in his system as well as benzodiazepines and crack cocaine. NBC News, which reported on the discovery, was unable to independently verify the reports though spoke with street drug experts who said, despite the drug’s name, it rarely contains cocaine. Bridget Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor for New York City, described pink cocaine as “typical with a lot of the drugs out on the streets.” The mixture has also been tied to Sean “Diddy” Combs following his arrest on sex trafficking charges and allegations of notoriously raunchy, drug-fueled parties stretching late into the night at his Florida mansion.
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Payne’s death came shortly after what authorities described as a frantic 911 call from someone claiming a guest inside the hotel was “breaking the whole room.” In the audio of the call obtained by Telemundo, a voice can be heard saying in Spanish, “The guest is in a room that has a balcony, and, well, we are a little afraid that he might do something life-threatening.” Sistema de Atencion Medica de Emergencia, the country’s emergency health service agency, confirmed that Payne fell from his third-story hotel room to the street below. An autopsy by the Argentinia National Prosecutor’s Office revealed that Payne sustained injuries “compatible with those produced by a fall from height” and that his cause of death was “polytraumatism, internal and external hemorrhage,” NBC News added.
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