Devastating fires that engulfed one of the richest and most prestigious areas of Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades, destroyed the homes of many celebrities, including Sir Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Maria Shriver, Paris Hilton, Milo Ventimiglia, Billy Crystal, Joshua Jackson and others. The once respectable enclave of the rich and successful today looks truly apocalyptic. However, in this nightmare there are houses that miraculously survived. Among them are the homes of a number of celebrities.. Which of them was lucky enough to save their property, Focus found out with reference to foreign media.

Photos of the miraculously surviving house of Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, which rises among the ruins of neighboring mansions, have spread across all the tabloids. Aerial photos show the $26 million hilltop home completely untouched by the fire.. Even the grass around him is as green as before the fire. The Oscar-winning celebrity lives in this mansion with his wife, actress and singer Rita Wilson..

Hanks' son, Chat, reacted to the Palisades tragedy, noting that the neighborhood he grew up in is "

The salvation of the 420 square meter mansion was partly facilitated by its relative remoteness from its neighbors' properties.

Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg's Mediterranean-style mansion, which ranges in price from $20 million to $35 million, was virtually untouched by the fire, as was the greenery surrounding it, but the same cannot be said about the neighboring houses.. He purchased the mansion in 1985 and has since rebuilt it, almost doubling the area of \u200b\u200bthe house.

" On the left he was surrounded by beautiful trees. Surrounding it to the right was Will Rogers State Park, which was the most attractive part of the place. I knew they could never spoil the view of the park with houses. It was like going to Hawaii and looking for the perfect bay,” Spielberg once said.

Hollywood actress Kate Hudson is not just a lucky, but a twice-lucky celebrity, as both of her houses survived the fires.. One of them is the house where she grew up. She bought it in 2003 for $5.5 million. Then in 2011, the actress bought the property next door for $5.3 million.

She lives in the mansion with her fiance Danny Fujikawa and their three children: sons Ryder Robinson with Chris Robinson and Bingham Hawn Bellamy with Matt Ballamy, and daughter Rani Rose Hudson Fujikawa with Danny.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's son-in-law Chris Pratt is among those whose homes remain intact in Pacific Palisades. His $15.6 million two-story beige Mediterranean-style home was spared by the fire.. The actor and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger moved into this house in 2021, but did not intend to live in it for a long time. As early as 2023, they purchased a home in nearby Brentwood for $12.5 million known as the Zimmerman House, a landmark building in the area that was designed by architect Craig Ellwood in 1953 to reflect beautiful mid-century architecture. They demolished the house to build their dream home in its place..

But the actor’s mother-in-law was much less lucky. Maria Shriver's luxurious $15 million mansion in Pacific Palisades burned to the ground. Chris's ex-wife Anna Faris also lost her $5 million home.

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen's ex-husband Tom Brady, a professional American football player who played quarterback in the National Football League, owns a home in Brentwood, which he began building back in 2020 and recently moved there. Tom began building a luxurious home after demolishing the original mansion, which stood on a cozy plot. It boasts an in-ground pool and floor-to-ceiling windows on all two floors. According to news agencies, his house survived.

As of January 10, when the most active fires swept through the area, the houses of Rebel Wilson, Ben Affleck, and Jamie Lee Curtis remained relatively intact.

Focus previously wrote that one of the most expensive mansions in the United States burned down during a fire in Los Angeles.