Overview

• Payne completed two full albums during a rare sober period in early 2024, recording one in Camden with producer Jamie Scott and the other in Palm Beach and Sweden
• Insiders report that discussions are under way to release selected tracks alongside Building The Band episodes but any launch would need family approval
• Netflix began streaming Payne’s Building The Band episodes in early July with additional installments set to debut next week
• Two Argentine nationals, Braian Paiz and Ezequiel Pereyra, remain in pre‐trial detention accused of supplying cocaine to Payne and they deny any transactional drug involvement
• With no will in place, Payne’s £24.3 million estate is being administered for his eight-year-old son, Bear, under executors led by Cheryl Tweedy