Death of Liam Payne: TMZ’s response, at the heart of a huge scandal after the publication of photos of the body

Death of Liam Payne: TMZ’s response, at the heart of a huge scandal after the publication of photos of the body
Death of Liam Payne: TMZ’s response, at the heart of a huge scandal after the publication of photos of the body

Liam Payne died this Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at the age of 31 after jumping from the third floor of his hotel room following an impressive seizure while he had been staying in Buenos Aires for a few days. The singer, who did not survive the ten meter fall, left behind a completely ransacked room where drugs were found on the floor.

Causes of singer’s death revealed

Since then, we have learned that the interpreter of For You died of “multiple serious injuries”, including one “cranial fracture“and”internal and external bleeding. Further details, such as the results of the toxicology report, will be determined and communicated later. Shortly after his tragic death, the American tabloid TMZ announced the terrible news on its website. The article was accompanied by several photos: that of the red tent which concealed the body of Liam Payne, with a blurred area so as not to see the remains of the British artist, as well as photos of Liam’s hotel room Payne showing drug residue and damage such as the television whose screen had been destroyed. But that’s not all: close-ups of Liam Payne’s tattoos (a clock and a scorpion, editor’s note), who was inanimate on the cafeteria terrace, were also published in the article, before being quickly removed.

Liam Payne : TMZ assumes the publication of the photos and explains

TMZ then found himself at the heart of a huge controversy on social networks and in the media. Faced with this scandal, the executive producer of the television channel TMZMichael Babcock, explained that these photos were published temporarily to prove that it was indeed the ex-One Direction member: “This is obviously a conversation that newsrooms around the world are having: you want to be sensitive around family and friends, and also when you’re working on a story. When the information came out, the police had not yet confirmed that it was Liam, so what was made on the website of TMZis that there was an image – which didn’t show the full image, which didn’t show his face – but which showed his arm and his abdomen, where he had very recognizable tattoos, so it’s a means of confirming (…) one’s identity. And once the police officially confirmed it, the photo was removed“. An argument which is not likely to convince many people, since the photos could have been described within the article without necessarily being shown. Liam Payne had a son, Bear, born in March 2017 from his relationship with the singer Cheryl Cole.

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