Liam Payne, 31, was reportedly “overwhelmed with drugs and alcohol” prior to his death Liam Payne, a former member of the boy band One Direction, was found dead on Wednesday after falling from a hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires, according to local police. The 31-year-old British pop star fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighborhood of Argentina’s capital where he was vacationing, resulting in “extremely serious injuries,” police said in a statement,