After singer Liam Payne fell to his death last year without a will, his ex-girlfriend Cheryl Cole was appointed to manage his estate.

In court documents, Liam Payne’s assets in the UK after deducting debts and expenses are $32.2 million (nearly VND78 billion). Cheryl Cole, the singer who has an 8-year-old son Bear with Liam Payne, was appointed by the court as the administrator of Liam’s estate along with lawyer Richard Mark Bray. The two will make decisions related to Payne’s money, assets and personal belongings.

However, according to People , Cheryl and attorney Richard only have “limited authority and cannot distribute this money.”

In the UK, when someone dies without a will, their children usually inherit their estate if they are unmarried. So Liam Payne’s only son, Bear, is likely to be the main heir. Liam’s girlfriend, model Kate Cassidy, will get nothing, although she has revealed that they were planning to marry.

Liam Payne and Cheryl Cole dated from 2016 to 2018. The two first met on The X Factor in 2010, when Cole was a judge. The show catapulted Liam to fame, helping him become one of the five members of the boy band One Direction.

Years later, Cole and Payne began dating and welcomed their son Bear in 2017, before splitting a year later. Liam Payne died on October 16, 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the age of 31. The singer had traveled to the South American country with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy to attend a concert by his friend Niall Horan of One Direction, then stayed on vacation. He died after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel around 5 p.m. under the influence of drugs . Kate Cassidy – who began dating Liam in 2022 – had left Argentina for the United States two days before the tragedy .

Liam Payne was born on August 29, 1993 in Wolverhampton, England, a suburb of Birmingham. He began his career when he participated in The X Factor in 2008 but was eliminated early. Two years later, Liam returned to this music program, impressing with the song Cry Me a River. He was chosen with four other contestants, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson to form the band One Direction. The band quickly became famous worldwide with hits such as What Makes You Beautiful , Story of My Life and Drag Me Down… In 5 years of operation, One Direction became one of the most successful boy bands in the world in the 2010s.