Paris Hilton, Adam Brody and Leighton Meester, Mel Gibsonand Billy Crystal are among the celebrities who lost their homes in the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles.
Thousands of firefighters were trying to contain the original Los Angeles fire in the Palisades. which has burned almost 16,000 acres – and seven other fires that ravage the south California threatening to destroy more homes and lives as strong winds spread embers.
The wildfires have forced the city to declare a state of emergency, and at least 70,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes as the metropolitan area was covered in a thick cloud of smoke and ash.
The last update saw a new fire in the Hollywood Hills. threatening a host of tourist sites, including the Walk of Fame.
US socialite Hilton said she was “heartbroken beyond words” to see her Malibu home “burn to the ground on live television”. while watching the news with his family – including her son Phoenix and daughter London, whom she shares with husband Carter Reum.
“This house was where we made so many precious memories. It’s where Phoenix took her first steps and where we dreamed of making a lifetime of memories with London,” she said in a post on Instagram.
“While the loss is overwhelming, I hold on to gratitude that my family and pets are safe,” Hilton added.
It comes months after a trailer fire on the set of her Bad Bitch Academy music video, in which “a lot of my favorite things were destroyed,” Hilton said at the time.
Meanwhile, actor Crystal and his wife Janice have confirmed that their home of 46 years was destroyed by the fire.
“There are no words to describe the enormity of the devastation we are witnessing and experiencing,” the couple said in a joint statement given to the PA news agency.
“Janice and I have lived in our home since 1979. We raised our children and grandchildren here. Every inch of our home was filled with love. Beautiful memories that cannot be taken away.
“We are heartbroken, of course, but with the love of our children and friends we will get through this.”
TMZ has reported that the house of Nobody wants this Gossip Girl star Adam Brody and his wife, Leighton Meester, were also victims of the fire.
Gibson, 69, revealed that his Malibu home was destroyed by fire while he was in Austin to record a podcast interview with Joe Rogan.
“Obviously, it’s devastating. “It’s emotional,” the Mad Max actor said. NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas reports for losing the house he had lived in for 15 years.
“You’ve lived there for a long time and you had all your stuff. “I had my things there and it is as if they had freed me from the burden of my things, because they are all in ashes.”
Oscar winner Songwriter Diane Warren confirmed she had lost her beach house of 30 years. in it forest fireadding that his animals had survived the ordeal.
acclaimed actor Antonio Hopkins, The 87-year-old lost his $6 million four-bedroom home in the Pacific Palisades area.
Star Wars actor Hamill said his family was “fleeing for our lives” as they evacuated their home, while Once Upon A Time In America star Woods said: “It tests your soul, losing everything at once”.
The stars of the hills Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag They also confirmed that they had lost their house in the fire.
The couple, who married for the second time in 2009, documented the escalation of the fire on their Snapchat stories with Pratt saying: “I’m watching our house burn on security cameras.”
This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia, 47, and his heavily pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano. They evacuated their home in Malibu on Tuesday and also watched as his home was destroyed through his security cameras.
“You start thinking about all the memories in different parts of the house and everything, and then you see your neighbors’ houses and everything around you and your heart breaks,” Ventimiglia told CBS.
“I think there’s kind of a shock moment where you’re like, ‘Oh, this is real.’ This is happening.’ And then at a certain point we just turned it off. What’s the point of continuing to watch? You know, we kind of accept the loss.”
The former Gilmore Girls star was filmed walking through the rubble of her home after the fire trying to save whatever she could. The crib that he and his wife, who is due to give birth at any moment, had prepared for their son, was destroyed by the fire.
Top Gun: star Miles Teller and his wife Keleigh Sperry’s $7.5 million home was also destroyed.
The couple had purchased the five-bedroom property with a cinema room and gym, described as their “secondary residence”, in April 2023.
Sperry shared a dramatic photo of the fire on Instagram on Wednesday with a crying emoji and urged evacuees to leave bowls of water on the street for animals that had escaped.
Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, lost her beachfront bungalow in Malibu to wildfires just days after celebrating her 71st birthday there.
“It was my favorite place, my sanctuary, my sacred Happy Place. Now it’s gone!! he wrote on Instagram while sharing a video of dolphins surfacing in the water in front of his house.
Jeff Bridges’ family home in Malibu burned in the Pacific Palisades fire.
The four-bedroom apartment had been in the 75-year-old actor’s family for generations and was inherited by Bridges, his brother and sister. TMZ reported.
Actor John Goodman’s $4.6 million Pacific Palisades home was also devastated by the wildfires.
Photos obtained by dailymail.com showed that the 72-year-old actor’s mansion had been burned down, leaving only the blackened pool in the backyard.
Actors Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg also lost their home in the wildfires, and Greenberg, 46, wrote on Instagram on Wednesday: “The family is safe and that’s all that matters. Everything else is just stuff. Thank you for signing up.”
She also posted devastating images of what appeared to be her home and wrote: “It was all a dream. Thank you to all the firefighters who risk their lives. Stay safe out there.”
Scary Movie star Anna Faris’ $5 million eco-friendly home was also decimated by the fires, with aerial photos showing the home burned to the ground.
Actress Mandy Moore’s Altadena home, which she shares with her husband Taylor Goldsmith, was partially burned in the Eaton fire.
The 40-year-old actress and singer shared photos of the rubble and revealed that there were still remains of her house.
“We were able to park and walk down our street to witness all the loss. Miraculously, the main part of our house is still standing. For now. It is not habitable but it is practically intact,” Moore wrote on Instagram.
“We lost Taylor and Griffin’s studio with all the instruments and equipment they once had. “We lost our garage and our back house.”
Moore added that she had survivor’s guilt because all the other houses on her street were gone, including her in-laws’ house, which burned down just six weeks after they welcomed their first child.
Schitt’s Creek star Eugene Levy’s $3.9 million Pacific Palisades home fell victim to the brutal wildfires.
The 78-year-old actor and comedian had previously spoken of being stuck in gridlocked traffic while trying to evacuate among thousands of other residents, saying: “The smoke looked pretty black and intense over Temescal Canyon. “I couldn’t see any flames but the smoke was very dark.”
The Altadena home of Step Brothers star John C. Reilly was also reduced to rubble. He had shared the house, located in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, with his wife Alison Dickey and their two children.
Bella Hadid’s childhood home in Malibu also caught fire, and the model shared a heartbreaking photo of the flames engulfing the house and wrote: “Childhood bedroom.”
Her mother, Yolanda Hadid, 60, once owned the mansion, known as Carbon Canyon Estate, which appeared in many lavish scenes on Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills.
How I Met Your Mother actress Cobie Smulders’ home was destroyed by the fire, despite firefighters’ efforts to control the flames.
Smulders, 42, and her husband, Taran Killam, bought the five-bedroom property for $5.6 million in 2017 and spent a year renovating it.
Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ex-wife and former First Lady of California, shared a heartbreaking video of the charred remains of her neighborhood after the fires.
“Heartbreaking, devastating, incredible. Everything is gone. Our neighborhood, our restaurants. All our friends have lost everything. We have evacuated, but we are safe. But people have lost everything,” he wrote.
Bozoma Saint John, the latest cast member of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills, revealed that she lost the Malibu home she shared with her daughter Lael.
Posting photos of the debris, he wrote: “They are gone. This is an unimaginable loss. “I cry with the rest of Los Angeles as it burns… and although I have even found words to write here, there is nothing I can say right now to describe this feeling.”
Saint John added: “This is the house I wanted. The house I prayed for. The house I worked for with blood, sweat and tears. The house where I put a keypad instead of a keyhole on the front door because I wanted all my family and friends to have a code and use the house whenever they wanted.”