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Liam Payne bombarded his ex-girlfriend and her family with X-rated photos and videos of himself, including pics of his genitals and clips of the singer “performing disturbing sexual acts” on his own body, according to court documents obtained by The Post.

The allegations — detailed in a cease and desist letter filed by an attorney for Maya Henry, the troubled One Direction star’s ex — included a charge that the singer tried to enlist others to distribute intimate pictures of her, according to the docs.

Payne, 31, died Oct. 16 after plunging from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, with witnesses saying he was on a drug-fueled bender at the time.


  According to court documents, Liam Payne sent his ex-girlfriend Maya Henry and her family X-rated photos of himself. Getty Images for BFI According to court documents, Liam Payne sent his ex-girlfriend Maya Henry and her family X-rated photos of himself. Getty Images for BFI

Lawyers for Henry — who dated Payne from 2018 to 2022 — sent the letter Oct. 9, just three days after an unidentified woman sent their client an Instagram message saying the crooner had been “blowing up my phone very recently on an iCloud email, and when I asked who it was, he started asking me if I wanted nudes of you/ his current gf.”

The woman — who claimed to have known Payne for years — added that she’d said “absolutely not” to his eyebrow-raising offer, but wanted to give Henry a heads-up nonetheless.

In another bizarre message, Payne said, “Send me f–king and sucking vids. Did I ever send you ones of Maya? ?? or any of my exes?”

The woman also said that Payne kept trying to get in touch with her even after she’d cut him off.

“I stopped answering him for a while and he messaged me on an iCloud account, a few different phone numbers as well as a Snapchat [account],” the woman said in another direct message to Henry.

The messages were shocking enough that Henry enlisted legal help — which promptly took the troubled singer to task.


  Henry accused Payne of threatening her with revenge porn, according to the documents. Instagram / @maya_henry Henry accused Payne of threatening her with revenge porn, according to the documents. Instagram / @maya_henry

“This letter will serve as formal notice to you … that Maya Henry, through her retained counsel, will file legal action against you should you violate any of the above statutes or defame, threaten, harass or intimidate our client or family in any form or fashion,” the attorney, Marco A. Crawford, wrote in the missive.

“We urge your serious attention to this matter,” it continued. “This is your only warning before legal action is taken against you and all related parties.”

Crawford noted that Payne had 10 business days to respond — in writing — before they moved forward with a barrage of litigation.


  Payne was sent a cease and desist letter weeks before his death. Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion Payne was sent a cease and desist letter weeks before his death. Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion

It’s not clear if he ever responded.

Seven days later, Payne was dead — with a litany of drugs in his system.

Henry has recently gone public with allegations of abuse, saying Payne was still harassing her way after they’d split.

“Ever since we broke up, he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone number, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,” she claimed on a TikTok video at the time.

“He’ll create new iCloud accounts to iMessage me — it’s always a damn new iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, ‘Here we f–king go again.’”

She also said he’d use his struggles with addiction to manipulate her.

Payne’s death is still under investigation.

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