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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBilly Crystal, Paris Hilton and Eugene Levy among celebrities to lose homes in California fires (Guardian)
Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton and Eugene Levy are among celebrities who have lost their homes in the wildfires tearing through several neighbourhoods of Los Angeles, which have killed at least five people and destroyed more than 1,100 buildings so far.
Six wildfires were raging across Los Angeles county. The affluent Pacific Palisades, where many famous Hollywood names live, has been devastated since the fires began on Tuesday. On Wednesday night, another fire broke out in Runyon Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, with the Los Angeles fire department ordering an immediate evacuation of parts of the neighbourhood.
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Other celebrities who have lost homes in the wildfires so far include the actors John Goodman and James Woods, reality stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, songwriter Diane Warren and TV host Ricki Lake.
The actor Jamie Lee Curtis shared on Wednesday that her home had survived, but said the Palisades church where she had attended sobriety meetings two decades ago had been destroyed. Our beloved neighborhood is gone. Our home is safe. So many others have lost everything, she wrote on Instagram.
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more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/09/celebrities-lose-homes-destroyed-california-fires-billy-crystal-cary-elwes-eugene-levy
Funny -- A-listers and also-rans, libs and wingnuts seem to be suffering the same consequences. I guess karma is a pretty shaky concept after all.
dsc
(52,724 posts)I wonder how many others are in that boat.
obamanut2012
(27,953 posts)like people in Florida sometimes have to.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,435 posts)Liberal In Texas
(14,735 posts)Many of the reports I've seen on MSNBC the reporters interviewed people that aren't "pampered millionaires."
And rich or not, losing your home is always a terrible thing. Can they more easily recover? Sure. But it's all terrible.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,435 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 9, 2025, 11:15 AM - Edit history (1)
ability to rebuild.
But I know all people are equal, but some are more equal than others. The middle class that loses everything will now spend all their time and energy fighting insurance companies, government red tape, and tax changes that won't do shit if the fires are not declared a disaster area under Trump's tax code changes which were designed to punish California.
Sorry if I don't weep for millionaires that can afford to stay in posh hotels while their mansions are rebuilt.
BannonsLiver
(18,338 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(6,435 posts)I need to show concern? Again, celebrities and millionaires get all attention. If there are people there of more modest means, then I will show them all the empathy I have.
As for the pampered wealthy, sorry. No can do.
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So they're safe.