Liam Payne’s dad sued for $10m by friend of late One Direction singer - Roger Nores alleges late star’s father made ‘false and defamatory’ claims to police

Liam Payne 's friend Roger Nores has filed a defamation suit against the singer's father, Geoff Payne. He claimed that his late friend's father smeared him in the media in the weeks after Payne's death, referencing the man's claim of Nores being negligent in taking care of the singer.

Roger Nores alleges Geoff Payne misrepresented his friendship with Liam Payne to a prosecutor, insists he “did not have a legal duty to Liam."

Liam Payne’s tycoon pal Roger Nores slapped the late star’s father with a defamation lawsuit Thursday for suggesting he plied the singer with drugs and had “full responsibility” for him before he plunged to his death from a hotel balcony.

Five people have been charged over Payne’s death after the former One Direction star fell from a third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Two months after Liam Payne died at his Argentina hotel, one of the five people charged in connection with his death has been arrested on suspicion of supplying cocaine to the One Direction alum.

Roger Nores, one of the last people to see Liam Payne alive, is reportedly suing the late singer's father for £8.1 million in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida. The Argentinian businessman claims Geoff Payne made "misleading false and defamatory" statements to police in Buenos Aires investigating the former One Direction star's death.