Since Tuesday, violent fires have ravaged California, and more particularly Los Angeles. On the networks, Laeticia Hallyday announced that the villa she owned had gone up in smoke. A terrible and sadly symbolic drama, as confided by the latter’s father, André Boudou.
In California, this new year 2025 begins with a terrible natural disaster. Since this Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Los Angeles is a city decimated by flames. The largest of the fires, the Palisades fire, runs from the hills to the sea, along the highway between Malibu and Los Angeles. A legendary place known as the Pacific Highway, where many celebrities own a villa. This is the case of Læticia Hallyday who had made this little corner of paradise a family cocoon after the death of her husband Johnny Hallyday.
This Thursday, January 9, on his Instagram account, the rock star’s widow revealed the impressive images of his destroyed house. In a publication addressed to Internet users, Laeticia Hallyday declared: “Watching this video of my house and the entire Pacific Palisades neighborhood being burned to the ground is absolutely heartbreaking. I don’t have the words to really describe how devastated I am right now”. Same story with her daughter Joy Hallyday who, with a bruised heart, revealed the images of the visit to the house ravaged by the flames. And they are not the only ones to be deeply affected by this tragedy.
André Boudou, Laeticia’s father, shares his pain
Before being reduced to smoke, this villa had everything to make people dream: three spacious floors, a kitchen open to the living room, a garden with a swimming pool. André Boudou, the father of Laeticia Hallyday, had stayed there twice and remembers to what extent the places were permeated by the presence of the rock star, who died on December 5, 2017, as he confided to our colleagues from the newspaper The Parisian : “Johnny was everywhere. In the living room, the garage, the office on the ground floor. She had reconstituted her office in Marnes-la-Coquette there with his cowboy hats, an Indian chief’s headdress, a motorcycle helmet….”.
-From now on, all these precious memories are reduced to ashes. For André Boudou, this drama takes on a sadly symbolic character: “This is Johnny’s second death” he told journalists at Parisian. And unfortunately, it seems that the villa is not the only one to have succumbed to the flames. Indeed, the first home in Amalfi of the much missed singer of the hit I promise you would also have burned…
New villa, new start
Still according to André Boudou, this villa located in a family neighborhood in Pacific Palisades meant a lot to Laeticia Hallyday: “During our two visits, she confided to us her attachment to this new house where she resumed her life after the death of her husband in 2017: ‘Moving was painful but essential in our mourning“. We can therefore only imagine the pain of Laeticia Hallyday and her two daughters, Jade, twenty years old and Joy, sixteen years old, who also launched a cry from the heart after the fires in California.
Original article on Purepeople
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