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A home reportedly belonging to Hollywood actors Leighton Meester and Adam Brody was one of more than 1,000 buildings destroyed by wildfires raging across Los Angeles, including a blaze that started on Wednesday in the Hollywood Hills.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Mandy Moore, Maria Shriver and other celebrities were among more than 100,000 people forced to evacuate their homes to escape the out-of-control fires burning in some of Los Angeles’ most desirable areas.
The largest blaze consumed nearly 12,000 acres (4,856 hectares) in Pacific Palisades, a picturesque neighborhood between the beach towns of Santa Monica and Malibu that is home to many film, television and music stars.
Brody, best known for his roles in TV series “The O.C.” and “Nobody Wants This”, and Meester, who starred in “Gossip Girl”, bought their Pacific Palisades home in 2019 for $6.5 million, according real estate and entertainment websites.
Shriver, a journalist and the former first lady of California when she was married to former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, said the destruction in the upscale enclave was devastating.
“Everything is gone. Our neighborhood, our restaurants,” she wrote on X on Wednesday. “The firefighters have and are doing their best,” Shriver added, “but this fire is massive and out of control.”
The day after actor James Woods evacuated his house in Pacific Palisades, he said “every house around us was on fire.”
“We were literally in the exact epicenter of the fire as it started,” Woods, known for roles in “Ghosts of Mississippi” and “Any Given Sunday,” said on CNN on Wednesday. “There was so much chaos. It was like an inferno.”
HOLLYWOOD HILLS BURN
On Wednesday evening, a fire erupted in the Hollywood Hills and quickly doubled in size, forcing further evacuations in an area synonymous with the entertainment industry.
Though relatively small compared to the others, the Sunset Fire burned just above Hollywood Boulevard and its Walk of Fame. It would need to cross the 101 Freeway to endanger the Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory further up in the hills.
Within that area is the Dolby Theater, where the Oscars are held. Next week’s Oscar nominations announcement was already postponed by two days because of the fire, organizers said.
This weekend’s Critics Choice Awards was also delayed by two weeks, organizers said.
With a median home price of $4.5 million, Pacific Palisades is home to celebrities as well as the Getty Villa, one of the most popular museums in Los Angeles.
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