Klitschko Seeks Control of Hayden Panettiere's Estate
The actress's former fiance is asking a Los Angeles court to manage the estate of their 11-year-old daughter, the sole heir. He claims jewelry is missing and emails were destroyed.
Vladimir Klitschko, the former fiance of actress Hayden Panettiere, has asked a Los Angeles court to appoint him temporary administrator of the estate of their 11-year-old daughter. The request was filed on September 24, and the public learned of it on Monday, September 28, when TMZ published it.
The girl is the sole heir of her mother, who died on August 16, 2026, at the age of 36. Panettiere left no will, so according to the filing everything the actress owned goes to her daughter, including an apartment in West Hollywood.
What exactly does Klitschko want from the court?
He is not seeking custody of the child. Panettiere handed him full custody back in 2018, while she was being treated for postpartum depression and addiction, and the girl has lived mostly with her father in Europe since then. Now he wants authority to act on her behalf in managing the estate while probate is under way.
His reasons: the daughter is a minor who does not live in California, and nobody is overseeing the property because no personal representative has been appointed. The appointment is, he writes in the filing, “urgent and necessary”.
What happened to the actress’s property?
In the filing, Klitschko claims that federal agents, as part of an ongoing investigation, entered the actress’s home and took some of her belongings. He wants authority to seek their return as soon as investigators no longer need them.
He also states:
- that some jewelry and other personal items are missing or their whereabouts are unknown, while certain items are in police hands
- that people who are not family members gained access to the actress’s emails and destroyed some of them
- that the locks on the house were changed after her death
According to the filing, a security service was hired before her death. TMZ reports that the actress hired it herself, while Hola says she and Klitschko did it together. The reason, as the filing puts it, was “documented concern that one person had gained unauthorized access” to her property. Klitschko does not name that person. He adds that storage units holding designer clothing and accessories she wore at public appearances were moved “as a precaution”.
Klitschko said in the filing that he expects the attempts to take the property to continue:
“That person is expected to continue attempting to take property belonging to Hayden’s estate. Given the high level of media attention surrounding her estate, a personal representative must be appointed immediately to protect and preserve her home and everything in it.”
A dispute between her parents over earrings
The filing comes after a clash between the actress’s parents, Lesli Fogel and Skip Panettiere. According to a Greenville County coroner’s report obtained by Page Six, they disagreed about where to send the earrings she was wearing. One parent wanted them to go to North Carolina, the other to California. In the meantime, the earrings were kept in a locker.
What did Panettiere say about her daughter?
The couple had their daughter in December 2014. In May 2026, on the podcast “On Purpose” hosted by Jay Shetty, the actress spoke about her 2018 decision and about the criticism that she had “given away” her child.
“The idea that anyone would think I’d just give my child away and be okay with it breaks my heart,” Panettiere said on the podcast.
In the same conversation she explained why she left the girl with her father and how she felt once she recovered:
“When I finally got better, I felt it would be unfair and selfish of me to pull her out of the life she had created. She had an incredible life. She is an incredible little girl.”
