Overview

• Cassidy posted AI-generated images to her Instagram Stories and thanked the fan who created them, describing the technology as both comforting and troubling.
• The pictures show imagined embraces with Payne and were shared nearly a year after his fatal fall in Buenos Aires.
• She has continued public tributes, recently filming a memory box of letters and photos and baking a cake on what would have been his 32nd birthday.
• Officials recorded polytrauma as the medical cause of death, and toxicology found alcohol and cocaine in Payne’s system.
• Argentine prosecutors have charged five people in connection with the death, and in the UK the inquest is scheduled for a pre-inquest review on November 6.