Hayden Panettiere’s ex Wladimir Klitschko gets legal status to protect their daughter’s inheritance

LOS ANGELES — Actor Hayden Panettiere’s ex-fiancé, 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.

Klitschko, a Ukrainian former world champion boxer, has had full custody of the girl, Kaya, for most of her life, and she has lived with him in Ukraine. The father and daughter appeared in Los Angeles County court remotely via videoconference. They spoke only to introduce themselves at the brief hearing with only Kaya visible on camera, sitting at a table in front of curtains.

Judge Stephanie Santoro granted Klitschko the status of temporary guardian of Kaya’s estate until a long-term administrator can be appointed.

Santoro asked Klitschko’s lawyer, Diane Park, why the matter was urgent. Park said they believed a person described only as a nonrelative had taken…

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