James Woods, Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore, Paris Hilton, Laeticia Hallyday, these stars whose houses were reduced to ashes

It was on social networks that many Hollywood stars announced that they had lost their homes in the flames ravaging the Los Angeles region. In Pasadena, Altadena and Malibu, cities located in the suburbs of Los Angeles and popular with many celebrities, several properties were destroyed.

“Nearly 2,000 structures burned in Los Angeles in the past 48 hours, including 1,000 in the Pacific Palisades fires and 972 in the Eaton fires in Altadena and surrounding areas,” reports Deadline.

It was a teary-eyed James Wood who spoke on CNN. “One day you’re swimming in the pool and the next day there’s nothing left,” he declared on the American channel. According to TMZ, the fire devastated Pacific Palisades and other neighborhoods in West Los Angeles, where many stars live, including Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Reese Witherspoon and Mark Hamill.

The properties of comedians Billy Crystal, Eugene Levy and John Goodman burned to the foundations. A video obtained by TMZ shows the rubble.

“Words cannot describe the devastation”told Billy Crystal on CNN. He and his wife Janice watched their home of more than forty years in Pacific Palisades go up in smoke. In the same area, the The home of couple Adam Brody and Leighton Meester in Pacific Palisades, as well as that of Anna Faris, burned down.

Just like that of Oscar-winning composer Diane Warren, who published images of her devastated house on Instagram. It is on the same social network that Paris Hilton expressed her grief by showing an extract from a BBC report where we see her Malibu house reduced to ashes. “I saw our house go to ashes, powerless against the flames, which took everything away”described for her part Laeticia Hallyday, the widow of Johnny Hallyday, on Instagram.

Mandy Moore expressed her sadness on Instagram by announcing that Altadena, her town, had been razed. “So many friends and loved ones have lost everything too. Our community is broken, but we will be here to rebuild it together”she wrote on Instagram. Evacuated with her family, she found refuge with friends to whom she expressed her gratitude on the social network.

Jamie Lee Curtis, for her part, shared a video showing the extent of the damage in her neighborhood, thanking firefighters and responders for their courage in the face of the disaster. The actress announced that she and her family had donated $1 million. Moved to tears, Adrien Brody, who received the best actor award from the New York critics on the evening of December 8, took advantage of the moment to express his solidarity with all his friends and colleagues who were victims of the fires.

“We are all worried about our friends in Los Angeles”declared director Jim Jarmusch at the same evening when presenting the award for best screenplay to the director ofAnora, Sean Bake. “They tell us that being aware of it is a negative thing, and I would just like to say that it’s time to wake up, dammit !”he said according to Deadline.