Aldana Serrano and Lucila Goitea identified as the two women last seen with Liam Payne before his death. The two women had been hired as escorts and had been fighting with the former One Direction star about money according to CasaSur hotel witnesses.
Two women who were allegedly seen visiting Liam Payne‘s hotel room hours before he died have been identified by Argentinian media.
The two women – named as Aldana Serrano, 31, and Lucila Goitea, 27, gave sworn statements to the state prosecutor investigating the singer’s death at a boutique hotel in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
The two women believed to have been hired as escorts by the former One Direction star have been described as being ‘co-operative witnesses’ by sources close to the investigation.
Liam Payne had toxic drug cocktail in system including crack & pink cocaine
The pair gave statements just hours of Payne’s body was discovered after he plunged from the balcony of his three-storey suite at the CasaSur hotel on Wednesday afternoon.
The women said they arrived at the hotel at 11.30 am and left at 4pm, although they had expected to leave earlier.
The multi-millionaire was seen arguing with one woman in the street about money on the day he died, according to a guest at the CasaSur hotel who told how the singer appeared ‘a little wild’ as he argued with a woman about money.
Just over an hour after the woman had left, Payne would be dead after plummeting 45ft into the hotel’s inner courtyard.
Michael Fleischmann, from the USA, claimed the former boy band star kept repeating to the woman: ‘I’ll give you $20,000 dollars just because I can.
‘I have $55 million, and I like to help people.,’ the pop star is alleged to have said according to the The Sun.
One American tourist told the outlet that she saw Liam in the hotel’s lobby shouting ‘F**k this s**t mate’ at around 4.30pm.
His mum Toni said: ‘It just looked like she was extremely uncomfortable with him, and a little apprehensive.’
‘The lobby was almost empty at that point. It was just my son, me, Liam Payne, the woman and the staff.
‘The manager was trying to politely intervene or calm him down. There was a feeling of anxiety in the area.’
During the ‘very tense situation’ the woman is said to have spoken in Spanish with the hotel manager translating the conversation to Payne at around 2pm local time.
He added that the singer had ‘seemed very upset, agitated, a little wild, walking around and pacing’ and ‘seemed very energized’.
He is said to have smashed his laptop on the floor – leaving guests and staff stunned.
The tourists’ account follows Argentine detectives having quizzed three hotel staff and two female escorts.
News of the pop star’s death led to the insiders claiming Serrano and Goitea were ‘devastated’.
Payne fell 45ft from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel on Wednesday at 5pm local time (9pm UK time), before medics confirmed his death.
The prosecutors, in their initial official statement, confirmed that they had interrogated five witnesses, two of whom were women and three were hotel employees.
They also confirmed that Liam had 25 separate injuries. In their detailed statement, they also confirmed the removal of ‘several substances’ from Liam’s room, which they believe would indicate drug consumption prior to his fatal fall from a third-floor hotel balcony.
Prosecutors say Liam appeared to have taken excessive amounts of booze and drugs – and they have linked his death to a probable psychotic episode according to the dailymail.
The singer died of multiple traumas and ‘internal and external haemorrhage’, a post-mortem examination report said.
Meanwhile, staff have revealed they were concerned about the star’s access to a balcony prior to his fall.
Employees reportedly feared that the 5ft 10in star was so inebriated he could easily fall over the glass railing of the balcony which is said to stand at a height of around 4ft and was ‘easy to fall over.’
Argentinian police are now theorizing that he was ‘going through some type of outbreak as a result of substance abuse‘ prior to his death.
Shocking pictures show his suite’s TV smashed as well as white powder, foil and a lighter strewn across the room.
In the lead up to his death, a panicked hotel worker made two calls, saying in the first: ‘We have a guest who’s off his head on drugs and is destroying everything in his room. We need someone to come.’
He then phoned back after the line went dead, saying: ‘I don’t know if the guest’s life is in danger. The room has a balcony and we are afraid he might do something.’
Payne was said to have been ‘acting erratically in the hotel lobby and smashed his laptop’ before he ‘had to be carried back to his room’, according to local media.