{"id":817087,"date":"2026-10-29T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T01:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:44:11","slug":"death-of-us-actress-hayden-panettiere-ruled-accidental-ending-local-police-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817087\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of US actress Hayden Panettiere ruled accidental, ending local police probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The death of US actress Hayden Panettiere has been ruled accidental, ending a local probe into her death, police in South Carolina have said.<\/p>\n

The Heroes and Nashville star died in August<\/a> from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs in her system, at the age of 36.<\/p>\n

Citing the medical examiner’s report last month that found Panettiere died from a drug overdose, the Greenville Police Department said it had “concluded its investigation” into her death.<\/p>\n

The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reportedly joined a local police probe. It is unclear if that investigation has also concluded. The BBC has contacted the DEA for comment.<\/p>\n

“Based on the Medical Examiner’s determination and the findings of the investigation, Hayden Panettiere’s death has been ruled accidental,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Authorities, including the DEA, were reportedly investigating the circumstances of Panettiere’s death, according to the BBC’s US media partner CBS News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of US actress Hayden Panettiere has been ruled accidental, ending a local probe into her death,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}