While some are cursing the authorities of the American state of California for the incompetent response to the devastating fires, and others are wondering whether P. Diddy or the US government itself is involved, others – including the most famous and wealthy residents of the coast – are counting the losses. We tell you about the most notable houses that burned in the fire in Los Angeles, and about their owners.
While the American coast is gradually recovering from fires so monstrous that the most distrustful saw someone’s evil intent in the natural disaster, Hollywood stars are realizing the loss of their homes – some recently purchased, and some inherited from relatives. A huge number of residents of Californian areas were literally left on the ashes – the fire devoured about ten thousand buildings. The editors of Lady Mail gathered the most famous fire victims, and also found out how much the most expensive house destroyed in Los Angeles cost so far.
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson had a very peculiar relationship with his Los Angeles home . The Lethal Weapon star made no secret of the fact that he had long been thinking about selling the property — Gibson initially demanded more than $17 million for the large European-style mansion with five bedrooms and even a small turret, but then knocked down about three million. There were rumors that this was the house that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, who had fled England, were going to buy, but the matter never went beyond discussions on the Internet.
When I got home, of course, there was nothing there. When I got home, I said to myself, “Well, at least I won’t have these stupid plumbing problems anymore!” There was a lot of personal stuff in there that, you know, I can’t get back… Things from photographs to files, you know, personal stuff that I’ve had over the years, and clothes, you know, pretty cool stuff, but it can all be replaced. It’s just stuff.
Mel Gibson learned that his $11 million home, purchased in 2008, had literally burned to the ground after finishing a podcast with Joe Rogan. The actor was slamming California Governor Gavin Newsom during the interview, who, according to Gibson, not only mismanaged the firefighting services, but also neglected the vegetation that caught fire in the Pacific Palisades, an area that had not seen much rain in a long time, but was instead swept by powerful winds.
The household managed to save only the chickens that Gibson bred. Now the actor, his family and, in fact, the chickens, are evacuated. The actor claims that his livestock has suffered almost no damage from the stress – the chickens even continue to lay eggs. Gibson stated on this very podcast with Rogan that there is a possibility that after this he will move to Costa Rica, where he has another house. But after the news that Donald Trump plans to make Gibson one of “his people” in Hollywood, the actor is unlikely to be able to leave the United States.
Paris Hilton
Socialite Paris Hilton , her husband, two children and dogs managed to evacuate from Malibu as soon as California authorities announced that it was unsafe to remain in the fire-ravaged areas. Hilton learned that her house had already burned down while watching TV: all that was left of her $8.4 million home, where the star moved just three years ago, was shown on the news.
Sitting with my family, watching the news and seeing our Malibu house burn to the ground on live TV is something no one should have to experience.
Paris Hilton’s mansion, although cheaper than Gibson’s, made a strong impression: it was built in the middle of the last century, and among its owners was, for example, the director of the film company Universal Pictures.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home overlooked the ocean, and Paris turned it into the perfect photo space for herself — it was from there that the diva often posted content to her social media, including a podcast recently hosted by Hilton, where she invites her friends — for example, singers Meghan Trainor and Ice Spice.
Anthony Hopkins
The two-time Oscar-winning actor, who still retains an amazing zest for life, is more familiar with fires than any of us would like: when the actor was in Los Angeles in 2000, his house in London burned down, and in 2018, his previous American property miraculously survived a Californian fire. Hopkins sold that house, as well as his apartment in Malibu, and for a rather modest six million dollars by celebrity standards, he bought a new house in Pacific Palisades in 2021. It burned down just now.
As we all try to recover from the devastation caused by these fires, it is important to remember that the only thing we take with us is the love we give.
The four-bedroom, five-bathroom colonial-style home has become famous in its own way on the actor’s social media, as it was in this mansion that 87-year-old Hopkins recorded his famous dance videos and played piano on camera. The cinematic giant has dealt with the loss of his home stoically – he has already managed to leave for Saudi Arabia for his own concert, his music was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Great Britain.
Austin Russell
This man’s name may mean nothing to the lion’s share of the world’s population. Meanwhile, Austin Russell, the head of Luminar Technologies, who made a fortune on cryptocurrencies, bought (and lost) one of the most expensive houses in California.
The giant mansion with six bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, filled with designer furniture, multi-level, terribly fashionable and built in 2020, cost Russell $ 125 million. The American tech mogul bought it a year later, for a long time his name was kept secret. The record-breaking house appeared in the hit HBO series about the rich, shameless and unfortunate “Succession”, where the mansion “played the role” of the Roy family home.
As it turned out, the house was not built from heat-resistant materials at all – under the influence of high temperatures, the structure collapsed, if Austin Russell undertakes to restore the mansion in Pacific Palisades, he will have to do it from scratch. Citizens of the Internet are divided into two camps in connection with this news: some feel sorry for the iconic house from the beloved series, and others almost do not hide their gloating, because they believe that Austin Russell made his fortune in a not very honest way.