Panettiere’s final texts with alleged dealer fuel DEA probe into death

Hayden Panettiere reportedly exchanged a slew of messages about black‑market drugs with a long‑time drug dealer in the weeks leading to her suspected overdose, a detail now at the forefront of a DEA investigation. Neighbors say strangers delivered bags to her West Hollywood home for years, with one bag allegedly linked to her on‑again, off‑again boyfriend Brian Hickerson. Panettiere was found dead in an Airbnb after ingesting a pill believed to be oxycodone laced with fentanyl; Narcan was reportedly on site, and coroners have not released an official cause of death. Authorities continue to zero in on a potential dealer as part of the ongoing inquiry into her death, in a broader context of fentanyl‑related overdoses in the U.S.”,