December 12, 2025 on the set of 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sylvie Vartan returned with sadness to the fires which have been ravaging entire sections of Los Angeles for a week. The singer has in fact lived there for 40 years.
Fires continue to rage on the American west coast, in several neighborhoods of Los Angeles, where many Hollywood celebrities live. While 25 people died in the flames, the violent fires ravaged tens of thousands of hectares and more than 12,000 homes and buildings. Several personalities, particularly from cinema and music, have spoken in recent days to give news of their personal situation on site – Patrick Bruel lost his house – or to come to the aid of the victims who number in the thousands. Guest on the set of 8:30 p.m. Sunday on December 12, 2025, Sylvie Vartan returned with emotion to this sad news, she who lives in Los Angeles “for 40 years”. “These are images of the apocalypse that disturb me a lot and cause me a lot of pain,” she reacted to Laurent Delahousse.
Sylvie Vartan married her American husband in 1984
The violence of the fires razed entire houses, leaving their occupants on the street, forced to depend on the help and generosity of volunteers and donors. “I have many friends who have lost everything… All these people who are in despair… It’s truly something unthinkable. How, in the space of a few hours, a life is turned upside down until it is destroyed “There are no words, I lack concentration because I am haunted by the images.” said Sylvie Vartan on France 2. The 80-year-old singer, who is currently finishing the very last concerts of her very long career, lived in Los Angeles with her ex-husband Johnny Hallyday, father of her eldest son David Hallyday, and currently lives there with her second husband Tony Scotti, whom she married in 1984.
Sylvie Vartan pays tribute to Los Angeles, a city dear to her heart
Murdered by the fires in Los Angeles, Sylvie Vartan also shared her grief on Instagram, where she is followed by more than 80,000 subscribers. “My prayers and thoughts go out to all the victims and the people of Los Angeles, this city dear to my heart,” can we read in the caption of an extract from her visit to Laurent Delahousse on France 2. Sylvie Vartan and producer Tony Scotti, who took up residence in Beverly Hills many years ago, are parents of a daughter, Darina , adopted in Bulgaria. “I knew I would miss out on my life with Tony if we didn’t have a child together. I had always wanted to adopt, I thought that life had spoiled me and that I could give love back to any child.” she confided to Paris Match in 2021.
