{"id":668687,"date":"2026-10-29T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668687\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:58:11","slug":"south-carolina-police-close-hayden-panettiere-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668687\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Police Close Hayden Panettiere Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPolice in South Carolina have closed their investigation into the overdose death<\/a> of actor Hayden Panettiere<\/a> following a coroner\u2019s finding that it was accidental.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe decision was based on the medical examiner\u2019s determination as well as the findings of the investigation, Greenville police said Wednesday in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanettiere, who starred in the TV series Heroes and Nashville, was pronounced dead in an apartment in Greenville on Aug. 16 at age 36 after paramedics found her unresponsive.<\/p>\n

\n\tA coroner\u2019s report obtained by the Associated Press last month said her death<\/a> was from an accidental overdose of several drugs, including fentanyl, and she had been in rehab<\/a> just weeks before. Her on-and-off boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, and his brother Zach Hickerson were at the home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt remains unclear whether federal authorities may still be examining the case separately. In a petition to a California court last month, Panettiere\u2019s ex-fiance, former boxer Wladimir Klitschko<\/a>, said some of her property had been taken by federal law enforcement agents investigating her death and by an unnamed nonrelative looking to sell it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment Wednesday, and Greenville police Sgt. Diana Munoz said she could not comment on whether any other agencies were investigating.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe California court granted Klitschko legal status<\/a> this month to protect Panettiere\u2019s property for their 11-year-old daughter, who is her sole heir.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn This Is Me: A Reckoning, a memoir that was published in May, Panettiere acknowledged being addicted to alcohol<\/a> and having postpartum depression after her daughter\u2019s birth in 2014. The girl went to live with Klitschko full-time<\/a> when she was two.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanettiere\u2019s father told investigators that at the time of her death, she had plans to visit her daughter in Ukraine days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in South Carolina have closed their investigation into the overdose death of actor Hayden Panettiere following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,20592,61,60],"class_list":["post-668687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hayden-panettiere","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}