LOS ANGELES, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Billy Crystal lost the Pacific Palisades house where he had lived since 1979. Paris Hilton watched her Malibu beach mansion burn down on live TV.
The list of celebrities who lost their homes and neighbourhoods in the worst fire in Los Angeles history reads like a Hollywood who’s who.
Jamie Lee Curtis, James Woods, Mandy Moore, Mark Hamill and Maria Shriver were among those who publicly described being forced to evacuate as out of control fires swept across some of the most lavish real estate in the world.
Đám cháy lớn nhất đã thiêu rụi gần 12.000 mẫu Anh (5.000 ha) ở Pacific Palisades, nơi sinh sống của nhiều ngôi sao điện ảnh, truyền hình và ca nhạc, nơi giá trị ngôi nhà trung bình là 4,5 triệu đô la.
Some had yet to comment publicly even as pictures of burning homes said to be theirs were shared by media outlets. Among them were “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester and her husband Adam Brody of “The O.C.”, two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins, “Roseanne” star John Goodman, “Top Gun: Maverick” actor Miles Teller and “Scary Movie” star Anna Faris.
Longtime Oscars host Crystal and his wife Janice said they were heartbroken to lose their Pacific Palisades home, where they raised their children and grandchildren, “but with the love of our children and friends, we will get through it.” get over this”.
Media personality Hilton said she was “heartbroken beyond words” to lose her beachfront mansion.
“Sitting with my family, watching the news, and watching our house in Malibu burn down on live TV is something no one should have to experience,” she wrote on X.
Woods, a two-time Oscar nominee and three-time Emmy winner, recounted how he fled his home in Pacific Palisades as the fire raged “like hell.”
“One day, you’re swimming in the pool, and the next day, it’s all gone,” he said. He shed tears during a TV interview as he described a niece “bringing her little Yeti piggy bank so we could rebuild the house”.
Reality TV star Spencer Pratt posted on X: “The only positive sign I saw when our house burned was that our son’s bed burned into the shape of a heart. A sign for Seeing this house filled with love, so grateful for all the years and memories spent there with our family.”
Jennifer Grey’s daughter Stella Gregg said the “Dirty Dancing” star’s house had “burnt to the ground” but Grey and her dog had escaped.
Shriver, a journalist and former first lady of California when she was married to then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, said the destruction in the upscale enclave was devastating.
“Everything is gone. Our neighborhood, our restaurants,” she wrote on X on Wednesday. “The firefighters have and are doing their best, but this fire is massive and out of control.”
Oscar winner Curtis said “my community and possibly my home is on fire.”
