LA on fire: Hollywood stars in shock as their homes burn

Hollywood has been rocked as devastating wildfires tear through Los Angeles, with stars losing homes, production grinding to a halt and awards season thrown into disarray, reported from The Sydney Morning Herald.

The $9 million home of comedian Billy Crystal, which he has lived in with his wife for 46 years, has been destroyed.

"Words cannot describe the enormity of the devastation we are witnessing and experiencing,” Crystal said in a statement. "We ache for our friends and neighbors who have also lost their homes and businesses in this tragedy.”

Schitt’s Creek creator and star Eugene Levy lost his home in the Pacific Palisades – the neighborhood to which he is also serving as honorary mayor.

Levy told the LA Times he got stuck in traffic while fleeing the area.

"The smoke looked pretty black and intense over Temescal Canyon. I couldn’t see any flames but the smoke was very dark,” he said.

Reality TV star Paris Hilton shared her heartbreak as she and her family watched their home burn down on live television.

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor James Woods announced on X his home had been destroyed, after live-tweeting security camera footage that showed flames inching closer to his property.

TV host and actress Ricki Lake expressed her grief on Instagram at the loss of her home and "heaven on earth."

Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis evacuated her Santa Monica street but has kept her fans and supporters updated via Instagram.

After an anxious wait, Curtis shared her home was safe for now but much of her neighborhood had been destroyed, including the church in which she got sober 25 years ago.

The famous couple’s $6.5 million property burnt down just days after they celebrated the Nobody Wants This star’s Golden Globe nomination in Beverly Hills. The ocean-view property featured five bedrooms and six bathrooms, Page Six reported. Brody first rose to fame for his role on The OC while Meester is best known for portraying Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl.

Multi-award-winning songwriter Diane Warren confirmed the beach house she had owned for almost 30 years had been lost. The artist, who has written songs for some of the world’s biggest stars and is famous for smash hits such as Aerosmith’s I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing and Cher’s If I Could Turn Back Time, shared the last photo she took from the beach of her home to Instagram.

Page Six has published photos of the remains of Mom actor Anna Faris’ home in the Palisades. The pictures show the property with a water-less swimming pool, which apparently evaporated when the blaze ran through the house.

The Silence of the Lambs star has lost his $US6 million home in the Pacific Palisades. Hopkins bought the house with his wife after selling a $US10.5 million beach-front property Malibu in 2020. The Academy Award-winning actor last posted in his home over the festive period, to celebrate his sobriety and play the piano.

TMZ has shared a video showing The Big Lebowski actor John Goodman’s $US4.6 million former home reduced to rubble.

In the Pacific Palisades, Police Academy actor Steve Guttenberg was spotted leaping into action to help firefighters move abandoned vehicles blocking access to parts of the neighborhood that were ablaze.

The 80s film star saw a KTLA news crew reporting on the fires and asked to make a public appeal.

The Buffy and Scooby-Doo actor slammed the City of LA’s evacuation in an Instagram story. "You want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on helping,” she wrote.

Journalist and author Maria Shriver, formerly married to Arnold Schwarzenegger, shared a video on Instagram that showed what remained of the once-glamorous LA streets: some charred building archways and columns, toppled power poles, and still-smoldering pockets of fire.

Mark Hamill was among those evacuated, from his Malibu home. The Star Wars star said on Instagram he and his family had escaped while small fires burned on both sides of the road as they fled.

Pop superstar Robbie Williams is in Beverly Hills for the opening of his biopic Better Man, which has been canceled in light of the fires. He posted a message to Instagram on Thursday: "In Los Angeles, waking up to lots of my friends’ houses disappearing and, for whatever it means, I’m just sending loads of love and power and strength and power to the firefighters now who are doing an incredible job,” he said. "Stay safe everybody, and lots of love.”

This Is Us star Mandy Moore has said she "doesn’t know if [her] place made it” after being forced to evacuate her Pasadena neighborhood.

"My children’s school is gone. Our favorite restaurants, leveled. So many friends and loved ones have lost everything too. Our community is broken but we will be here to rebuild together.

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