Video: Celebrity homes that burned in the Los Angeles fires
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Out of control wildfires around and within Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people and engulfed entire neighborhoods, forcing at least 180,000 peop...
Out-of-control wildfires around and within Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people and engulfed entire neighborhoods, forcing at least 180,000 people to flee as the blazes enter their third day.
Included in the wreckage are luxury homes owned by Hollywood stars, who grieved and commiserated like anyone else, albeit in public. Here’s what we know about the most rich and famous of the fires’ victims.Anthony Hopkins - Images published by the Daily Mail, People and TMZ reportedly show the Oscar-winning actor’s colonial home in the Pacific Palisades reduced to rubble. According to the Daily Mail, this is not the first time the 87-year-old has suffered the loss of a home. Hopkins lost his London home to a fire in 2000, and his Palisades home narrowly escaped the Woolsey Fire in 2018, which destroyed his neighbor’s property.Mel Gibson - The "Mad Max” actor lost the Malibu home he lived in for over a decade in the Palisades Fire, he revealed in a phone interview with NewsNation’s "Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” calling the experience "devastating” and describing the neighborhood as "completely toasted.”
Gibson said he was in Austin recording the Joe Rogan podcast during the blaze. "I thought, ‘I wonder if my place is still there,’” he told Vargas. "But when I got home, sure enough, it wasn’t there … and I said to myself, ‘Well, at least I haven’t got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore.’”
Gibson’s wife, Rosalind Ross, and their son, Lars, were able to get to safety, and he added that all his chickens were safe. He’d lost photographs, files and memories but said he was grateful for the generosity of everyone around him.
"Obviously, it’s kind of devastating. It’s emotional,” Gibson told Vargas, while also criticizing California Gov. Gavin Newsom. "I had my stuff there, and it’s all like, I’ve been relieved from the burden of my stuff, because it’s all in cinders.”