{"id":4332,"date":"2025-04-10T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=4332"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:28:36","slug":"roger-nores-shares-touching-promise-to-liam-paynes-dad-and-drops-8000000-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/roger-nores-shares-touching-promise-to-liam-paynes-dad-and-drops-8000000-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Nores shares touching promise to Liam Payne\u2019s dad and drops \u00a38,000,000 lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Nores has dropped his lawsuit against Geoff Payne (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Liam Payne<\/a>’s friend Roger Nores has reportedly dropped his defamation lawsuit against Liam’s father Geoff Payne.<\/p>\n

The former One Direction<\/a> star died in October 2024 at the age of 31<\/a> after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the tragic death, Roger \u2013 who was with him in the Argentinian city \u2013 decided to take his late friend\u2019s dad to court.<\/p>\n

He claimed that Geoff\u2019s \u2018false and defamatory\u2019 statements about him to a prosecutor led to his arrest and manslaughter charges being placed upon him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The singer\u2019s father had claimed in \u2018sworn declarations\u2019 to police that Roger was part of a \u2018care group\u2019 dedicated to his son because he \u2018could not be left alone in the vulnerable situation in which he was.’<\/p>\n

The former manager previously said that the declarations made by Geoff were \u2018false, contained material omissions, and many parts were not based on personal knowledge.’<\/p>\n

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Geoff Payne previously claimed Roger was part of a ‘care group’ for Liam (Picture: Luciano Gonzalez\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roger has now asked the court to voluntarily dismiss the defamation lawsuit against Liam’s dad Geoff and said he ‘does not need to apologise’, according to reports by Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roger was cleared of all wrongdoing on February 19 and initially refused to drop the lawsuit until he received an apology from Geoff.<\/p>\n

In the email obtained by Rolling Stone, he also revealed the final promise he made to Liam’s dad prior to his death. <\/p>\n

He wrote: ‘I\u2019ll 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. I kept that promise right until the end, and it was pretty hard.’<\/p>\n

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Roger’s lawsuit claimed that Geoff\u2019s statements impacted his reputation in \u2018mega proportions with extensive damages.’ (Credits: REUTERS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He continued: ‘In spite of how everything turned out and Geoff saying in his statement to the police [that] “this is all Roger\u2019s responsibility,” I would have done this 100 times over because I loved Liam with all my heart and I miss him everyday.’<\/p>\n

After Liam’s death, Geoff claimed that Roger had ‘full responsibility for Liam’s care during this last period when I was not there.’<\/p>\n

According to Roger’s lawsuit \u2013 which was filed in Florida<\/a> \u2013 Roger was seeking damages of $10million, while he insisted he and the Strip That Down hitmaker were \u2018mutual dear friends\u2019 and nothing more.<\/p>\n

Roger claimed that Geoff\u2019s statements impacted his reputation in \u2018mega proportions with extensive damages.’<\/p>\n

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The former\u00a0One Direction\u00a0star\u00a0died in October 2024 at the age of 31\u00a0after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires (Picture: Marc Piasecki\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But, according to Roger, the \u2018net financial proceeds of the judicial proceedings\u2019 would be \u2018for the benefit of Liam Payne\u2019s son\u2019 Bear, who he had with Girls Aloud singer Cheryl.<\/p>\n

He told Rolling Stone: \u2018All the proceeds will be donated to my friend\u2019s son.<\/p>\n

\u2018Geoff needs to backtrack on his [sworn] statement as he very well knows I wasn\u2019t Liam\u2019s nurse or caretaker.<\/p>\n

\u2018Liam, who I miss every day, was my dear friend and an independent, brilliant, respectful free man who did whatever he wanted whenever he wanted.\u2019<\/p>\n

In November, Roger told how he saw Payne less than an hour before his fatal fall<\/a>, as he dismissed claims police had raided his home in connection to the tragedy.<\/p>\n

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Roger said he ‘never abandoned Liam’ (Picture: REUTERS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After reviewing the case, judges determined that Roger did not play any role in Liam ‘obtaining and consuming alcohol’ and further ruled that he had no legal obligation to ensure Liam’s safety, despite Geoff’s implications. <\/p>\n

He told MailOnline: \u2018I never abandoned Liam, I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened.<\/p>\n

\u2018There were over 15 people at the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him when I left. I could have never imagined something like this would happen.<\/p>\n

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Liam first rose to fame as a part of boyband One Direction (Picture: Hugh Thompson\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve given my statement to the prosecutor on October 17 as a witness and I haven\u2019t spoken to any police officer or prosecutor ever since.\u2019<\/p>\n

At the time, he said he \u2018wasn\u2019t Liam\u2019s manager\u2019, referring to the pop star as a \u2018very dear friend\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018I wasn\u2019t Liam\u2019s manager, he was just my very dear friend and please refer to the email I sent to Liam and his team on August 23.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m really heart-broken with this tragedy, and I\u2019ve been missing my friend every day.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Roger Nores has dropped his lawsuit against Geoff Payne (Picture: Getty Images) Liam Payne’s friend Roger Nores has reportedly dropped his defamation lawsuit against Liam’s father Geoff Payne. The former One Direction star died in October 2024 at the age of 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Shortly after the tragic death, Roger \u2013 who was with him in the Argentinian city \u2013 decided to take his late friend\u2019s dad to court. He claimed that Geoff\u2019s \u2018false and defamatory\u2019 statements … Continue reading “Roger Nores shares touching promise to Liam Payne\u2019s dad and drops \u00a38,000,000 lawsuit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}