Hayden Panettiere's ex Wladimir Klitschko gets legal status to protect their daughter's inheritance
Wladimir Klitschko, former boxer and brother of Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko, attends an event in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Hayden Panettiere's ex-fiancée, former boxer Wladimir Klitschko, was granted legal authority by a California court Thursday to protect Panettiere's property for their 11-year-old daughter after the television star's accidental overdose death left the girl as her sole heir.
Klitschko had filed the urgent petition last week, saying that pieces of Panettiere's property were being taken by federal law enforcement agents investigating her death and by an unnamed nonfamily member looking to sell them, with no one in a position to try to recover them for her daughter.
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