Liam Payne's Friend Withdraws Defamation Lawsuit Against His Dad Geoff
Liam Payne‘s friend is no longer suing his father, Geoff Payne.
Roger Nores, who was acquitted of an involuntary manslaughter charge in the investigation of the One Direction star’s passing, asked the court to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit Wednesday (April 8), via Rolling Stone.
In his original filing, he alleged that Geoff made false and defamatory statements about him in sworn declarations to an Argentine prosecutor investigating Liam’s passing, claiming damages of over $10 million.
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He told Rolling Stone at the time that Geoff “need[ed] to backtrack on his statements.”
In an email sent to Richard Bray, Liam’s estate attorney, the friend now writes that Geoff “doesn’t need to apologize.”
“I’ll always remember when [Geoff] came to me the first night at the ranch after I had picked them up at the airport, how he asked me to promise I would never give up on Liam, no matter what,” he wrote, via Rolling Stone. “I kept that promise right until the end, and it was pretty hard.”
“In spite of how everything turned out and Geoff saying in his statement to the police [that] ‘this is all Roger’s responsibility,’ I would have done this 100 times over because I loved Liam with all my heart and I miss him everyday.”
Liam passed away in mid-October 2024 after falling from the balcony of a third floor room the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Argentina.
Kate Cassidy just recently shared a few happy memories with her late boyfriend Liam Payne.