The Malibu home where late Hollywood stars Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett lived has burned down amid the ongoing wildfires in Southern California, his daughter Tatum O’Neal said Saturday.
“It’s the saddest thing ever, so sad I could cry,” the Oscar-winning actress, 61, said on Wires. ‘My father’s house is gone. Malibu is gone.”
Tatum then addressed the fire damage in a comment thread alongside a post actor Michael Douglas shared on Instagram on Saturday.
“My father’s house in Malibu is gone. The Malibu house is gone,” said Tatum, who won an Academy Award in 1973 for her performance opposite her father in Paper Moon.
The fire at the Love Story actor’s old hometown on the Pacific Coast Highway comes more than two years after he died of congestive heart failure on December 8, 2023 at the age of 82.
It also comes more than 15 years after Fawcett’s death at age 62 from cancer on June 25, 2009. She and O’Neal never married, but dated and lived occasionally (without a divorce from 1997-2001). 1979 until her death.
The Malibu home where late Hollywood stars Ryan O’Neal lived has burned down amid the ongoing wildfires in Southern California, his daughter Tatum O’Neal said Saturday.
O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett, pictured in New York in 1989, lived in the oceanfront home for many years
Insiders have said so New York Post According to a report published after Ryan’s death in December 2023, Ryan left behind a $30 million estate, including the 2,344-square-foot home, which was valued at $5 million.
A recent one Redfin Listing appraised the house, which had three bedrooms and three bathrooms, at $3,348,606.
The confirmation of the home’s destruction came during a weekend when firefighters were working to block the explosive growth of fires that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people in the Los Angeles area.
The death toll rose late Sunday with an update from the Los Angeles County medical examiner. At least 16 people were missing, a number authorities said was likely to rise.
Twelve people were missing in the Eaton Fire zone and four were missing in the Palisades Fire, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said.
Investigators were weighing whether some of the missing could be among the dead, but so far no children were among the missing, he said.
Meanwhile, the death toll rose to 24 this weekend. Eight deaths were attributed to the Palisades Fire and 16 to the Eaton Fire, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
The toll could rise even further if cadaver dogs conducted systematic searches in flat neighborhoods. Authorities set up a center where people could report the missing.
Ryan’s daughter Tatum O’Neal took to social media to talk about the house burning down Saturday
The oceanfront house was pictured in 2004
While a relatively calm Sunday allowed some people to return to previously evacuated areas, the National Weather Service issued red flag warnings through Wednesday for severe fire conditions, with sustained winds up to 50 miles per hour and mountain gusts up to 75 miles per hour. per hour.
The most dangerous day will be Tuesday, fire behavior analyst Dennis Burns warned at a community meeting on Sunday evening: ‘It’s going to be a bit of an ebb and flow over the next few days. It will really ramp up tomorrow night.”
Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone said 70 additional water trucks have arrived to help firefighters fend off flames spread by new gusts of wind: “We are prepared for the upcoming wind event.”
Fire retardants dropped by aircraft will act as a barrier along slopes, officials said.
The fierce Santa Ana winds are largely responsible for turning the wildfires that ignited last week into infernos that leveled entire neighborhoods around the city, which has not seen significant rainfall in more than eight months.
Officials also built an online database that allowed evacuated residents to see if their homes had been damaged or destroyed. In the meantime, LA Fire Chief Kristin Crowley urged people to stay away from the scorched neighborhoods.
The late actor, pictured in front of the house in 2010, died in December 2023
A satellite infrared survey of homes in Malibu showed the treacherous conditions Thursday
Officials warned that the ash could contain lead, arsenic, asbestos and other harmful materials.
About 150,000 people in Los Angeles County remained under evacuation orders, while more than 700 residents took refuge in nine shelters, Luna said.
In total, four fires had consumed more than 60 square miles, an area larger than San Francisco. The Palisades fire was partially contained and containment of the Eaton fire reached 27 percent. Those two fires alone covered 59 square kilometers.
Crews from California and nine other states are part of the ongoing response, which includes nearly 1,400 fire trucks, 84 aircraft and more than 14,000 personnel, including newly arrived firefighters from Mexico.
The fires that started just north of downtown LA on Tuesday had burned more than 12,000 buildings. No cause was identified for the largest fires.
Early estimates suggest it could be the nation’s most expensive ever, as much as $150 billion, according to an AccuWeather estimate.