Businessman claims Geoff Payne made false statements to Argentine authorities and promises to donate profits from the trial to the artist’s son
Article published on January 16, 2025 on Rolling Stone. To read the original in English, .
The friend of Liam Payne, Roger Noresis suing the late singer’s father, Geoff Paynefor defamation.
In a new federal lawsuit filed in the United States on Wednesday (Jan. 15) and obtained by Rolling Stonethe businessman says so Geoff made false and defamatory statements about himself to the Argentine prosecutor investigating the death of Liamcausing more than $10 million in damage.
As noted on the first page of the trial, Nore promises that any financial proceeds obtained in the legal dispute will be donated to the artist’s son.
All profits will be donated to my friend’s son. Geoff you have to go back on your affidavit, as you know very well that I was not a nurse or a carer. Liam.
Liamwho I miss every day, was a dear friend of mine and a free, independent, brilliant and respectful man who did what he wanted, when he wanted,” the friend said Rolling Stone Thursday.
In the 263-page document, it claims that the star’s father One direction made “false and misleading” statements and omitted information in providing his account to Argentine authorities describing the involvement of Nore in the life of Liam Payne.
The businessman claims that the statements Geoff it impacted him and his reputation in “mega proportions with extensive damage”.
Legal dispute
The process analyzes the statements of Geoff to an Argentine prosecutor in the days following the singer’s death, when the pop star’s father claimed that Liam was under the care of Nore.
The original lines of Geoff Payne played an important role in the accusation of “abandonment followed by death” brought by the Prosecutor’s Office against Argentina Norewith a possible sentence of 15 years in prison.
The charge was reviewed by the judge overseeing the case and was ultimately upgraded to “manslaughter,” or manslaughter, due to “recklessness and negligence,” in late December.
Nore claims to have sent a retraction letter for defamation to the lawyers of the Geoff on January 8. In the response sent two days later, the father’s defense accused the businessman of “attempting to interfere in the police investigations by exerting pressure Geoff to change their evidence,” adding that they would “bring their actions to the attention of the Argentine authorities.”
The estate of Liam he also criticized the lawsuit’s intention to donate the profits to the artist’s son, an initiative defined as “useless”. Furthermore, lawyers argue that the trial causes even more irreparable damage Payne Bearson of Liam with the singer Cheryl Cole.
Geoff’s attorneys did not immediately respond to the company’s request for comment. Rolling Stone.
Responsibility
The basics of the defamation case Nore arises from the declarations of Geoff done on 22 and 26 October to an Argentine prosecutor.
In them, the father of Liam describes the singer’s relationship with Roger Nores and his alleged responsibilities towards the artist’s health.
Geoff Payne claims that he was only able to communicate with his son through Nore AND Kate Cassidy — girlfriend of Liam – and that Nore “had full responsibility” for the singer’s care, among other allegations.
In response, Nore insists on the process that the family of Geoff communicated with Liam via the singer’s laptop.
For almost all charges, Roger Nore he responds by writing that “he never agreed to be its custodian Liam…he had no legal obligation to do so Liam“, and that the two were simply “dear friends”.
It also references an email from August, two months before the pop icon’s death. In the email sent by Nore THE Geoffbusinessman refuses to be responsible for taking care of Liam. He also claims to have requested it in September Geoff accompanied the singer, but his father refused.
Accusations
Part of Geoff’s statement to the Argentine prosecutor includes this Nore, Kate and the bodyguard of Liam they were part of a “care group” responsible for the singer and which the group’s goal was to “maintain Liam occupied”, since “he could not be left alone in the vulnerable situation in which he found himself”.
He continued to support him Nore “manipulated” Liam fire his bodyguard from his psychiatrist Liam he resigned in September and that Nore helped hire a new psychiatrist for the singer.
Liam went to another psychiatrist with Roger Nores and they both hid their alcohol and drug problems from him. Liam I had to prescribe psychotropic drugs and avoid giving the therapeutic recommendations that a previous doctor had given”, Geoff he reportedly told the prosecutor.
“Due to this situation, the bodyguard of Liam he decided to consult the new psychiatrist alone and exposed the real problems that Liam I had. In consideration of this fact, Roger Nores talked to Liam and manipulated him into getting fired.”
Along with the typical responses of never being the caregiver of Liam, Nore he said he and the singer never visited another psychologist, claiming the claim was “100% fiction” and had no “independent corroborating basis”.
The businessman claims that after the bodyguard was fired, Geoff became the “self-declared caregiver of Liam” and that the singer’s father “never provided a temporary or new bodyguard.”
The legal team of Nore also sent a letter to the lawyers of Geoff asking them to provide “independent documents or evidence demonstrating the content” of the friend’s lawsuit is inaccurate.
Liam was an independent person, an adult who had control over all his personal, financial and professional decisions and made these decisions independently. How far? Nore knows and on the basis of information and beliefs, Liam was not subject to any legally mandated and monitored assistance, guardianship, or conservatorship program or anything similar,” the lawsuit states.
As evidence, Nores includes another email from August 2024, with which he supposedly communicates Liam, Geoff and the businessman of Liamstating that he would “stay completely out of the picture” and that he “never had access” to his finances. Liam.
“I am really concerned about his well-being while he is out there and hope you can bring in medical professionals to regularly check his health as soon as possible, as I did while he was in the United States,” he wrote. Nore. “I will be completely out of the picture and disconnected from now on and wish you all the best in your health and career. Liam.”
The new trial was dismissed weeks after the judge investigated the death of Liam they accused Nore and two hotel employees for manslaughter and two others accused of selling drugs to the singer were sentenced to prison. (The two alleged traffickers were arrested.)
In the decision, the authorities state this Nore had assumed the “position of guarantor” for the family of Liam and was the musician’s main point of contact in the hotel. They also say so Liam Payne he died after trying to jump from a balcony while under the influence of drugs.
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Source: Terra
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