Liam Payne bombarded his ex-girlfriend and her household with X-rated images and movies of himself, together with pics of his genitals and clips of the singer “performing disturbing sexual acts” on his personal physique, based on court docket paperwork obtained by The Publish.
The allegations — detailed in a stop and desist letter filed by an legal professional for Maya Henry, the troubled One Path star’s ex — included a cost that the singer tried to enlist others to distribute intimate footage of her, based on the docs.
Payne, 31, died Oct. 16 after plunging from a lodge balcony in Buenos Aires, with witnesses saying he was on a drug-fueled bender on the time.
Legal professionals for Henry — who dated Payne from 2018 to 2022 — despatched the letter Oct. 9, simply three days after an unidentified lady despatched their shopper an Instagram message saying the crooner had been “blowing up my phone very recently on an iCloud email, and when I asked who it was, he started asking me if I wanted nudes of you/ his current gf.”
The lady — who claimed to have recognized Payne for years — added that she’d stated “absolutely not” to his eyebrow-raising supply, however needed to present Henry a heads-up nonetheless.
In one other weird message, Payne stated, “Send me f–king and sucking vids. Did I ever send you ones of Maya? ?? or any of my exes?”
The lady additionally stated that Payne saved making an attempt to get in contact together with her even after she’d lower him off.
“I stopped answering him for a while and he messaged me on an iCloud account, a few different phone numbers as well as a Snapchat [account],” the lady stated in one other direct message to Henry.
The messages had been stunning sufficient that Henry enlisted authorized assist — which promptly took the troubled singer to job.
“This letter will serve as formal notice to you … that Maya Henry, through her retained counsel, will file legal action against you should you violate any of the above statutes or defame, threaten, harass or intimidate our client or family in any form or fashion,” the legal professional, Marco A. Crawford, wrote within the missive.
“We urge your serious attention to this matter,” it continued. “This is your only warning before legal action is taken against you and all related parties.”
Crawford famous that Payne had 10 enterprise days to reply — in writing — earlier than they moved ahead with a barrage of litigation.
It’s not clear if he ever responded.
Seven days later, Payne was useless — with a litany of medication in his system.
Henry has lately gone public with allegations of abuse, saying Payne was nonetheless harassing her approach after they’d cut up.
“Ever since we broke up, he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone number, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,” she claimed on a TikTok video on the time.
“He’ll create new iCloud accounts to iMessage me — it’s always a damn new iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, ‘Here we f–king go again.’”
She additionally stated he’d use his struggles with habit to control her.
Payne’s demise remains to be underneath investigation.