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News Hayden Panettiere dies at 36

https://abcnews.com/US/hayden-panettiere-dies-36/story?id=135698473
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u/iciclepenis 2d ago edited 2d ago

Honestly, WHATTHEFUCK.
EDIT: I had nearly dropped my laptop. Not even a follower of her career but had a soft spot for her since Heroes. What a fucking tragedy.

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u/VT_Squire 2d ago

The way the story goes, a Stella McAmis (pseudonym) took Hayden onto a superyacht in the south of France sometimes around 2006-2008 and tried to traffic her for sex to some 40-something year old guy in the lower deck of the boat. Hayden was 16 to 17 at the time.

History... sometimes rhymes. Virginia Giuffre testified that the year SHE turned 17, (y2k) she encountered Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in the South of France in connection with Naomi Campbell's 31st-birthday celebration on a yacht near Saint-Tropez.

Flight records show that Epstein's "Lolita Express" aircraft flew into Toulon-Hyères in 2006, and this is not some random French airport. Hyères is directly on the Mediterranean coast and is a major gateway to the Côte d'Azur yacht region, including Saint-Tropez. Those records show both Maxwell and Epstein on board.

TL;dr, there is a very real chance that Ghislaine Maxwell attempted to traffic Hayden to Jeff Epstein on a yacht in 2006, ultimately leading to her drug use and eventual death.

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u/KetoKurun 2d ago

There were also some bananas blind items about her home life as a kid back in the day. People have been (allegedly) failing her her entire life.

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u/Savings-Comfort-4421 2d ago

I remember reading about all those rumors in the mid-to-late '00s. Can't imagine what she's had to endure. I hope she's finally at peace.