Liam Payne's missing £30,000 Rolex reportedly vanished after an escort he had been with prior to his death returned to his hotel room.
The respected Argentinian news outlet Infobae reported that the woman claimed she had forgotten her makeup and was permitted back into the third-floor suite at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires to collect it.According to sources close to the ongoing criminal probe, Infobae revealed: "There Payne's Rolex watch disappeared." It is alleged that the woman, along with another female escort who attended the hotel, were promised £5,000 by Liam, but they did not receive the full amount, the Mirror reports.Infobae further reported that the two escorts later informed prosecutors that 'gentleman' Liam had knelt before them declaring, "I love you, I love you."He is even said to have 'promised them' his Rolex watch.
However, Liam allegedly did not hand over additional money in the room or afterwards in the lobby. The One Direction star's friend and ex-manager Roger Nores is then reported to have arrived to "resolve the situation".
Tragically, forty minutes later, Liam fell three floors from the balcony of his hotel room to his death. Although Liam was seen wearing the Rolex on the day he died, the watch, valued at about £33,000, was not found on his wrist when he fell and has since gone missing. Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages A detective on the case revealed: "We know, from images that were analysed, that Payne was wearing a Rolex on the day of his death.
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