Hayden Panettiere's Death: Gossip Surrounds Her Death, Investigators Search for Answers
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Hayden Panettiere’s team slammed the "gossip and speculation" that erupted after her shocking death and warned that the public still didn’t know the full story as investigators searched for answers.
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NYT ArtsHayden Panettiere’s Final Battles: Mysterious Pain and Trouble With an Ex In the year before the actress’s death, she struggled to walk at times and worked to disentangle herself from an ex-boyfriend who had abused her.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Panettiere's representative for comment. Panettiere died Aug. 16 at a South Carolina apartment. Preliminary autopsy results found no signs of trauma that contributed to Panettiere’s death, the Greenville County Coroner's Office confirmed to Fox News Digital. However, Panettiere's death remains under investigation.
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Washington Times CultureMs. Panettiere, 36, died Aug. 16 of cardiac arrest in Greenville, South Carolina. She had a top role in the feature film “Remember the Titans” at age 10 in 2020 and a star-making turn in the NBC superhero series “Heroes” at age 16 in 2006.
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Panettiere’s on-and-off boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, and his brother, Zach, called 911 after finding the actress unresponsive, according to a police report obtained by Fox News Digital. Hickerson later gave authorities a bag containing medication Panettiere had allegedly been taking.
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01 Fox News Entertainment Her representative condemned the speculation surrounding Panettiere’s final hours and accused outsiders of turning her death into fodder for gossip.
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02 Washington Times Culture The family of Jenny Lupton, a Southwest Airlines flight attendant and mother from Moore, Oklahoma, is pressing authorities for answers after she was found dead during a work layover in Waikiki last week.
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