The terrible fires have already caused the death of at least 10 people and displaced nearly 200,000 residents. Occurring in the most exclusive neighborhoods of Los Angeles, the tragedy destroyed thousands of buildings… including hundreds of stars’ homes.
On Wednesday and Thursday, many personalities had already had to leave their threatened homes, or discovered that they had burned down: Laeticia Hallyday, Paris Hilton, Jamie Lee Curtis and Mark Hamill were concerned.
This Friday, a new outbreak broke out in the Calabasas area, which directly threatens Hidden Hills, where Kim Kardashian notably lives.
Patrick Bruel’s house “gone up in smoke”
As for Patrick Bruel, the French singer, who has owned a house in Los Angeles since 2016, he confirmed what his ex-wife Amanda Sthers feared on Thursday: she “went up in smoke”, according to his publication on Instagram.
« She was so important to us for 8 years…Oscar was 13 Leon 11 when we arrived,” wrote the singer. “ It was a nice anchor, another refuge. This evening I am necessarily thinking of the victims, of my friends, of my neighbors, and of all those who lost everything in this disaster as in so many others in recent years,” he added, before concluding with a message for the “firefighters, everywhere and always.”
Photo albums and cuddly toys burned
Thursday, Amanda Sthers, mother of the singer’s two boys, spoke in Télématin of the uncertainty that reigned over the couple’s former family home, now owned by Patrick Bruel. “It probably went up in smoke,” she conceded, while one of her sons flew over the area when leaving Los Angeles on Thursday morning. The residence housed “many of our children’s photo albums. When they were little, we took paper photos. Their cuddly toys too…” confided the writer, very moved, to Parisian.
-The home of Gossip Girl star Leigthon Meester and her husband Adam Brody, as well as that of the iconic Dirty Dancing Jennifer Gray are also destroyed.
Another star evacuated Thursday: Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson had to leave their $27 million home. The couple shared their anguish on social media: “We took what we could and left. This fire is out of control. »
The famous director Steven Spielberg and the actress Reese Whiterspoon also evacuated their homes, without knowing yet what happened to them.
Others, on the other hand, are fixed: nothing remains of their home. This was already the case of Paris Hilton, who saw, in tears, her home burning live on television, or even of James Woods or Anthony Hopkins.
Actor Billy Crystal also lost his home, where he had lived with his wife Janice since 1979. “Every inch of our house was filled with love. Beautiful memories that cannot be taken away from us. We are heartbroken, of course, but with the love of our children and friends, we will get through this,” they wrote in a statement.
