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Liam Payne’s Friend Roger Nores Sues Singer’s Dad for Defamation

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

In a new federal lawsuit filed in Florida Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, Nores alleges that Geoff made false and defamatory statements about him in sworn declarations to an Argentina prosecutor investigating Liam’s death, causing him damages over $10 million. The filing dissects Geoff’s declarations to an Argentine prosecutor in the days following the singer’s death, pulling out the numerous insistences where the pop star’s father claims that Liam was in Nores’ care. In a response dated Jan. 10, included in the lawsuit, Liam’s estate declined to retract the declarations and accused Nores of “seeking to interfere with a police investigation by pressuring [Geoff] to change his evidence,” adding that they would “bring his actions to the attention of the Argentinian authorities.”

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