{"id":886643,"date":"2026-06-23T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/886643\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:03:19","slug":"liam-paynes-9-year-old-son-is-the-sole-beneficiary-of-29-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/886643\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Payne’s 9-year-old son is the sole beneficiary of $29 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liam Payne\u2019s<\/a> 9-year-old son has inherited the late singer\u2019s fortune. <\/p>\n

Bear Grey Payne, the only child of Payne and British singer and former \u201cX-Factor\u201d judge Cheryl Cole<\/a>, has been named the sole beneficiary of the former One Direction star\u2019s estate, according to court documents reviewed by People.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Bear now has more than $29 million to his name. According to the filing, a portion of the inheritance can be accessed now, but the majority will be held in a trust for another nine years, until Bear turns 18. <\/p>\n

During a 2019 appearance on \u201cThe Jonathan Ross Show,<\/a>\u201d Payne opened up about fatherhood and spending time with Bear after the singer and Cole had called it quits. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe comes over to my house every so often, and we just hang out and do whatever,\u201d Payne said of his then-2-year-old son. \u201cI think you put pressure on yourself as a dad sometimes. It\u2019s hard to connect with it with a 2-year-old … but they literally will laugh at anything. We put this Batman costume on him in the house, and it was a little bit slidey on the floor, and he kept falling off the sofa. And if I said \u2018Whoopsie-daisy!\u2019 and it was like the best thing ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payne, who was one-fifth of the global boy-band sensation One Direction, died Oct. 16, 2024, after falling from a balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel. Officials determined the 31-year-old singer died from multiple traumas<\/a> caused by the fall. He had traces of alcohol, several narcotics and a prescription antidepressant in his system when died, according to officials.<\/p>\n

The boy-band star turned solo artist had been open about his battle with addiction and mental health and shared updates on his sobriety journey on social media<\/a>. <\/p>\n

After Payne\u2019s death<\/a>, the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor\u2019s Office of Argentina charged five people for alleged involvement in the pop singer\u2019s death, including a representative for Payne and the manager and the head of reception of the Buenos Aires hotel where the British singer fell to his death.<\/p>\n

Another hotel employee and a waiter whom Payne met in a restaurant were charged with supplying the singer with narcotics.<\/p>\n

Times staff writers Alexandra Del Rosario and Karen Garcia contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Payne\u2019s 9-year-old son has inherited the late singer\u2019s fortune. Bear Grey Payne, the only child of Payne…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":886644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[359728,1556,2841,2418,359727,1582,276,359732,4446,2961,40442,224,5337,359730,1812,1408,3546,359729,359733,359731],"class_list":["post-886643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-9-year-old-son","tag-addiction","tag-argentina","tag-bear","tag-british-singer","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-correctional-prosecutor","tag-death","tag-la","tag-liam-payne","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-multimillion-dollar-estate","tag-office","tag-official","tag-people","tag-several-narcotic","tag-sobriety-journey","tag-sole-inheritor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116798148453415875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}