Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton and Eugene Levy among celebrities to lose homes in California fires (Guardian) [View all]

I know some claim not to care about the lives of Hollywood celebrities, but this makes it clear that no one is safe from weather -- or climate change. If being rich, successful, famous, popular and living in a gated community can't keep you safe, what will ? Not political connections -- both Hunter Biden's and Kamala Harris's homes have been reported to be in danger. Natural disasters are great levelers, despite the "only the toughest survive" pseudo-macho pseudo-Darwinism of RWNJs.

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.