{"id":378674,"date":"2026-09-22T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378674"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:39:09","slug":"hayden-panettiere-death-reports-corrected-the-story-is-about-jansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hayden-panettiere-death-reports-corrected-the-story-is-about-jansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere death reports corrected: the story is about Jansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent coverage has cleared up the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/hayden-panettiere-dies-at-36-official-cause-of-death-remains-under-investigation\" rel=\"noopener\">false reports claiming Hayden Panettiere had died<\/a>. She&#8217;s alive. The person at the center of the story is her brother, Jansen Panettiere, who died in <strong>2023<\/strong> at 28.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confusion seems to come from newly circulated details in recent reporting about Jansen&#8217;s death. He died on <strong>February 19, 2023<\/strong>, in Nyack, New York, and had built a career as both an actor and a visual artist. His credits include <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>, <em>The Perfect Game<\/em>, and <em>Ice Age: The Meltdown<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recent coverage says coroner findings list Jansen&#8217;s cause of death as the <strong>toxic effects of fentanyl<\/strong>, 4-ANPP, alprazolam, methocarbamol, and quetiapine. Earlier, his family had said he died from cardiomegaly, or an enlarged heart, along with aortic valve complications. Cardiomegaly can be associated with high blood pressure, valve disease, or congenital heart problems, and it can raise the risk of heart failure, blood clots, or sudden cardiac death.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For people following the story, the later remarks from Hayden bring the focus back to her brother. She described Jansen as her best friend, said grief reshaped her life, and said his legacy lives on through the Jansen Rane Panettiere Art Foundation, which supports emerging artists and <strong>healing through art<\/strong>. The latest reporting and public statements can be found online.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent coverage has cleared up the false reports claiming Hayden Panettiere had died. She&#8217;s alive. The person at the center of the story is her brother, Jansen Panettiere, who died in 2023 at 28. The confusion seems to come from newly circulated details in recent reporting about Jansen&#8217;s death. He died on February 19, 2023, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/hayden-panettiere-death-reports-corrected-the-story-is-about-jansen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hayden Panettiere death reports corrected: the story is about Jansen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":378673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-378674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378675,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378674\/revisions\/378675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378674"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378674"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378674"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}