These were the most desirable neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Real cocoons for stars eager for multi-million homes and especially for themselves. Today, Pacific Palisades and Malibu are ravaged by the violent fires that have been raging for several days in Southern California. And their famous residents are forced to evacuate to escape the flames, leaving their luxurious properties behind.
The list of stars who have lost their homes is endless. The Anglo-Saxon media thus broadcast images of the houses of Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, Anthony Hopkins, Anna Faris and even John Goodman, all reduced to ashes. Some actors had lived there for more than forty years, like Billy Crystal, unforgettable hero of “When Harry Met Sally.”
Paris Hilton even filmed images of her destroyed Malibu home on television. Laetitia Hallyday also saw her Pacific Palisades residence go up in smoke. “We lost everything… there’s nothing left. (…) It wasn’t just a house… It was our refuge, our rebirth after the chaos of mourning,” she wrote on Instagram, in the caption of a video where the we see the house in flames.
Others evacuated without knowing what happened to their home, but mourn their beloved neighborhood, like Mandy Moore, who lived in Altadena, a town located in Los Angeles County. “My children’s school is no more. Our favorite restaurants have been leveled,” the actress and singer wrote on Instagram. Pacific Palisades resident Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that her own home was spared for now, but her “beloved neighborhood is gone.”
According to the “Daily Mail”, as the fire approached, Ben Affleck rushed to his ex-wife Jennifer Garner’s house, abandoning the $20 million mansion he bought just five years ago. months, after his separation from Jennifer Lopez. We do not know if the building is still standing, specifies the British daily.
But not everyone fled from the flames, which are now only a few hundred meters from the Hollywood district and its famous Chinese Theater and Walk of Fame. Thus, actor Steven Guttenberg, hero of the “Police Academy” saga, stayed to lend a hand to the emergency services. Images of the interview he gave on Tuesday to a KTLA5 journalist who did not recognize him went viral.
