Hayden Panettiere's Father Arrested for Spousal Abuse

Us Magazine - August 11, 2008 1:55 PM PDT
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Hayden Panettiere's father was arrested Monday morning on allegations of spousal abuse, TMZ.com reports.

Alan Panettiere will face a felony count of domestic violence for allegedly hitting wife Lesley in the cheek, leaving a visible mark.

Police were summoned to their West Hollywood home at 3:00 a.m. after the incident, which occurred after the Heroes star, 18, and her parents went to Eva Longoria's restaurant, Beso, for a party.

Lesley reportedly refused to go to the hospital, against advice of paramedics, but cops took pictures of the bruise.

The argument broke out after Alan accused Lesley of "hanging" with someone and "disrespecting" him, TMZ claims.

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Hayden who's dating co-star Milo Ventimiglia has a warrant out for her arrest in Japan for obstruction of commerce after she attempted to block a pod of dolphins from being led into a nearby cove for massacre by fishermen.

Hayden also has a 13-year-old brother, Jensen.

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  • Minkie007
    i think it was very wrong to try to arrest her for her beliefs she was protecting a defenceless mammal i hope she would do it again iam very proud of her u go girl that was very noble of her
    report abuseposted August 17, 2008 12:13 AM PDT
  • Anna_is_Rockin04
    Wow how aweful!!
    report abuseposted August 15, 2008 10:59 PM PDT
  • Larry B
    KICK HIS ASS...
    report abuseposted August 15, 2008 12:15 PM PDT
  • lealea
    HOW SAD!!!!!
    report abuseposted August 12, 2008 5:56 PM PDT
  • Lisa
    A WOMAN BEATER...IS THERE ANYTHING WORST????
    report abuseposted August 12, 2008 9:43 AM PDT
  • S
    Innocent until proven guilty. For all we know the person that was "hit" was a bipolar who slammed herself into a wall, then called the police. Being arrested is one thing, convicted another. And even if convicted a jury is often swayed by emotions, not just facts. Easy for a man to get arrested on a false accusation now days. Now if he did do it, he should suffer the consequences
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 9:02 PM PDT
  • S
    Hayden is a great actress with seemingly as good values. She had to learn it somewhere. Also her father hasn't been reported to have had any history of this. Innocent until proven guilty. For all we know the person that was "hit" was a bipolar who slammed herself into a wall, then called the police. Being arrested is one thing, convicted another. And even if convicted a j
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 8:59 PM PDT
  • S
    Innocent until proven guilty. For all we know the person that was "hit" was a bipolar who slammed herself into a wall, then called the police. Being arrested is one thing, convicted another. And even if convicted a jury is often swayed by emotions, not just facts. Easy for a man to get arrested on a false accusation now days. Now if he did do it, he should suffer the consequences
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 8:58 PM PDT
  • KimberlyS
    As for the Japan arrest warrent it was wrong of her to do what she did .there were other ways to get involved rather than break the law again in our society we are picking which laws are okay to break and put down others if they break a law what she did is still illegal to saw because it wasn't a DUI or car accident she comes out a better than someone else is false she too is wrong
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 2:55 PM PDT
  • KimberlyS
    she trys to be the little perfect girl but she too has problems i don't think parents just start to fight like that it must have gone on for sometime and kept hidden coupd be why Hayden dates men much older than she is and trys to be composed as an older one due to her role in the family obviously the parents have not acted their age therefore the children must make up for that
    report abuseposted August 11, 2008 2:52 PM PDT
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