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But officials ruled out third party involvement in the star’s fall from a balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires last month.

The former One Direction star, who died falling from a third-floor balcony last week, first met Scherzinger on ITV show The X Factor.

Malik left One Direction in 2015 before the group went on indefinite hiatus in 2016.

She described the singer as her ‘best friend’ and ‘the love of my life’.

A post-mortem examination report said Payne died of multiple traumas after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Argentina

Simon Cowell's brother Tony Cowell believes late singer Liam Payne "never stopped loving" ex-partner Cheryl Tweedy and his seven-year-old son Bear, and he has remembered the star as a "kind and considerate" man and a "wonderful father".

Liam Payne’s death is the latest casualty of an industry that treats underage stars as commodities

Liam Payne sought "advice and direction" from his former mentor Simon Cowell in the months before he died.