Revealed: Liam Payne's eight-year-old son Bear will inherit all of the tragic One Direction star's £21million fortune

Published: 01:24, 21 June 2026 | Updated: 02:00, 21 June 2026 Liam Payne’s eight-year-old son Bear will inherit all of the tragic One Direction star’s £21million fortune, the Daily Mail can reveal. The entire estate left by the star after his death in a fall from a third floor hotel balcony two years ago will pass to his only child, it emerged today. Newly released probate documents lodged with the High Court detail how the troubled pop star’s estate can be used immediately to ‘benefit’ Bear Grey Payne, whose mother is singer Cheryl Tweedy. The new documents also re-value the size of Liam’s estate and discloses that it is worth a net figure of just over £21million, around £2.3million less than its given value on May 1 last year. The decrease could be due to a reduction in the value of the singer’s assets or even a payout to his last girlfriend Kate Cassidy, although sources had previously indicated the US cocktail bar waitress would not be claiming any of his money. Liam, 31, did not leave a will when he fell to his death at the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires on October 16, 2024. As he died intestate and was not married or in a civil partnership his only son was always due to inherit everything when he became 18 under UK probate rules. Cheryl and music industry lawyer Richard Bray were named as administrators of Liam’s estate in a grant of probate issued by the probate registry in Newcastle on May 1, 2025. Liam Payne's (pictured) eight-year-old son Bear will inherit all of the tragic One Direction star’s £21million fortune, the Daily Mail can reveal Probate documents lodged with the High Court detail how the troubled pop star’s estate can be used immediately to ‘benefit’ Bear Grey Payne, whose mother is singer Cheryl Tweedy But the document was limited to being a so-called Ad Colligenda Bona grant which only gave the pair the power to collect and preserve Liam’s assets. Now the High Court has issued a new grant document, known as Letters of Administration, allowing the estate to be used for the ‘benefit’ of Bear before he turns 18. It means that parts of the estate can potentially be spent to help Bear now with the remainder required to be placed in trust for him until he is aged 18. The original Ad Colligenda Bona grant valued his estate at £28,594,888 in the UK, reduced after payment of liabilities and debts to a net total of £24,279,728. The new document values the estate on April 29 this year at £26,471,777, reduced to a net figure of £21,898,779. Under normal probate rules, anyone seeking to make a claim against the estate of someone who dies intestate has six months to do so from the granting of Letters of Administration. Liam had been living in a rented home in Florida with his influencer partner Kate Cassidy at the time of his death. Sources close to her suggested last year that she does not intend to make any claim against his estate, although she might have been legally entitled to do so due to having lived with him. The singer’s UK estate includes his five-bedroom home at Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, which he bought for £3.25million in 2021 to be closer to his son following his split from Girls Aloud star Cheryl. The house, which includes a courtyard with a saltwater pool and waterfalls and amenities including a gym, spa and tennis courts, was up for sale for a year after his death, but was later taken off the market. Liam successfully became sober at a rehab clinic in 2023, but by the night of his death he had relapsed and consumed alcohol and drugs. He was seen hanging around the lobby of the Casur Sur Hotel, smashing up his laptop and introducing himself to fans in the hours before his death. His cause of death was confirmed to be 'polytrauma' after his fall, a term which means a person has multiple traumatic injuries to their body. Liam's friend Rogelio 'Roger' Nores, hotel operator Gilda Martin and receptionist Esteban Grassi faced manslaughter charges after his death, although these were later dropped. Hotel employee Ezequiel Pereyra and waiter Braian Paiz have been charged with supplying cocaine to the singer. Liam originally went to Argentina with Cassidy and US-Argentine businessman Nores to attend the concert of his former One Direction bandmate Niall Horan at the Movistar Arena on October 2. Cassidy returned to their Florida mansion two days before the singer died. Nores had become part of Liam's inner circle after being introduced to him by a Florida-based Argentine investor Gonzalo Avendano who also encouraged him to play polo 'as a form of healing'. Following the dropping of manslaughter charges, Nores started a defamation suit against Liam's father Geoff before dropping it. The singer’s UK estate includes his five-bedroom home at Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, which he bought for £3.25million in 2021 following his split from Girls Aloud star Cheryl The house, which includes a courtyard with amenities such as a gym, spa and tennis courts, was up for sale for a year after his death, but was later taken off the market Geoff had told prosecutors he felt Nores had 'abandoned' his son and should have done more to look after him. Initially a judge agreed, and an initial indictment issued in December 2024 accused Nores of 'failing in his duty of care, assistance and help' towards the singer. Once the charges were thrown out Nores was able to return to the United States after his passport was returned and he picked up his career in the energy sector. The comments below have not been moderated. 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