Panettiere's Dad Arrested Over 'Wife Beating' Claims

By WENN, August 11 2008

HEROES star HAYDEN PANETTIERE's father ALAN has reportedly been arrested over claims he assaulted his wife.

Fire department lieutenant Panettiere was arrested on a felony count of domestic violence in the early hours of Monday morning (11Aug08).

He is accused of striking the actress' mother, former U.S. soap star Lesley, according to TMZ.com.

The incident reportedly occurred following a row at a Los Angeles restaurant earlier in the evening.

The website also reports that Panettiere is currently being held on $50,000 (GBP25,000) bail.

Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <p>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Read our privacy policy.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.

Recent comments