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Exactly 24 hours earlier, the fires in Los Angeles roared to life, with Hollywood at the time celebrating its Golden Globe Awards. The event- hosted by comedienne Nikki Glaser- turned out to be nothing but a grand stage for mockery. Example of her offhand comment: Citing a film called God Creator of the Universe, she claimed that it got zero votes, and people laughed. This was a comment made to audience laughter that resounds with utter contempt for any brand of faith and ironically came a day before the fires that engulfed the city.
The awful inferno is described as more deadly than the fiercest military attack. Within a matter of hours, rich neighborhoods have turned into ashes. Homes built over decades, most worth tens of millions of dollars, were reduced to rubble. Among them are celebrities from Hollywood. Mandy Moore of This is Us was one of the first to take to her Instagram to post an unsure caption about her house's survival. She later confirmed losing a garage, as well as a studio. Likewise, Kelly Taylor and husband- actor Miles Teller-posted pictures of their home destroyed after the author and the site have been correctly referenced.
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The tragedy was not spared iconic personalities. Billy Crystal lost the house he lived in with his wife for over forty years. The Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges would also see his house ravaged by fire along the Malibu shoreline, while James Woods said he lost everything. Mark Hamill spoke about a last-minute escape from a harrowing evacuation, while Jamie Lee Curtis lamented the loss of neighborhood even though her house stood intact.
The fires included what was formerly John Goodman's Pacific Palisades estate, which he purchased for $4.6 million. Just days after the couple appeared at the Golden Globes-their house together, worth a cool $6.5 million, was consumed: Adam Brody and Leighton Meester. Other notable casualties were collections said to have belonged to Anthony Hopkins, Paris Hilton and Maria Shriver, each of whom shared an emotional tribute on social media.
In the wake of the tragedy, celebrities including Tara Lipinski and Molly Sims offered emotional updates detailing their own grieving over what’s been lost in their communities. Most insisted on the point of being safe, that there is no use of building material if one does not remain alive. Cameron Mathison and Sandra Lee described the apocalyptic scenes, recalling their dreams of building their dream homes only for them to disappear in seconds.
This devastating chain of events displaced more than 18,000 individuals and resulted in damages in excess of $150 billion. There were entire neighborhoods erased, and the Hollywood elite were left to sift through the ashes of their former lives. The fires are a stark reminder of the unpredictability of nature and the frailty of human achievement.
