Superman star Dean Cain revealed that the Malibu home his parents, Christopher Cain and Sharon Thomas, built burned down amid the devastating fires in Los Angeles.
The Lois & Clark actor, 58, shared a heartbreaking video showing the remaining rubble of his childhood home to his X bill on Tuesday.
“Here are images of my old house that my sister sent me. My parents built it. Sorry mom + dad, and so many others,” he wrote in the caption.
The video showed the fire completely decimated the oceanfront estate, which he put on the market for $7.25 million in March 2023 before selling it for $6.25 million in May.
Cain – who has moved to Nevada – recently shared this Fox News Digital that his mother can’t stop crying over the devastation.
“The house they built from the ground up… is gone to the ground. My mother has been crying for two days.’
Superman star Dean Cain, 58, revealed that the Malibu home his parents built burned down amid the devastating fires in Los Angeles; Cain is depicted in 2022
The Lois & Clark actor shared a heartbreaking video showing the remaining rubble of his childhood home on his X account on Tuesday
Dean — who dated Brooke Shields when they attended Princeton — told Fox News that all the homes he once lived in in Malibu, as well as the Pacific Palisades, were destroyed in the fires.
“I ended up having three different houses in Pacific Palisades, one that I owned, and two that I rented and lived in.”
‘The Three of Those Pacific Palisades’ [homes]all of which burned, disappeared. Pacific Palisades looks like someone dropped a nuclear weapon on it and flattened everything. I’ve never seen anything like it. Also, three of the houses I lived in in Malibu are gone.”
He called the fires “shocking and horrific, but not unexpected.” Part of the reason I left California was this perfect storm of mismanagement and failed leadership.”
Cain explained that the 2018 Woolsey Fire previously burned his backyard, but not his home.
‘We are used to this in Malibu. We get the wind, we get the fire, so we know how to deal with it. But if all the tools are taken from you, no money, no brush clearing, no controlled burns, all those things, then you end up with a catastrophic situation like this.”
He said his fire insurance was canceled after the Woolsey Fire, prompting his move to Henderson, Nevada, in 2018.
“There are so many of us who shouted it from the rooftops, including President Trump, countless times, way back during his first presidency. He says it all: mismanagement will cost you money. Removing money from the fire budget will cost you. Uncontrolled combustion will cost you money. If you don’t store the water, it will cost you a lot.’
The video showed the fire completely decimated the oceanfront estate, which he put on the market for $7.25 million in March 2023 before selling it for $6.25 million in May.
“Here are images of my old house that my sister sent me. My parents built it. Sorry mom + dad, and so many others,” he wrote in the caption
Dean earned $1 million less than his original asking price for his luxurious four-bedroom, five-bathroom home
The house also featured a private lagoon-style pool, waterfall spa and terraced garden with roses
The single-storey house was built in 1976
Cain blamed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying, “You screwed up, Gavin Newsom. You screwed up.”
He also said his monthly water bills in Malibu were in the thousands, and he couldn’t get fire insurance for less than about $40,000 a year.
He said his son Christopher ultimately helped him decide it was time to leave California.
“It was strange to leave my house forever, but now to come here [Henderson, Nevada] And to be in this beautiful house with great policies, you know, castle doctrine, ‘stand your ground’ stuff and all that, I think, ‘Wait a minute, this makes perfect sense.’ And when I see the disaster happening, I am shocked. My heart is broken for the people suffering from this mismanagement. But I hope it teaches them common sense.”
Cain believes Californians and Hollywood liberals may vote differently now, saying, “Once it hits you, your votes change.”
“I think this is going to be a very, very blue state, much redder. I hope that California turns purple and I hope that – listen, my heart goes out to those who lost everything. And I know they will experience years and years of red tape, nightmares and lost memories. It becomes one of those catastrophic events in their lives. And I hope this will wake people up so that they will vote for policies that are meaningful and common sense, and that they will prepare for things like this in the future.”
Cain added that moving to Nevada was “one of the smartest things I’ve ever done.”
“I feel like I’ve been liberated,” he shared. ‘There are so many people who say: you got away just in time. And I did that.’
Dean earned $1 million less than his original asking price for his luxurious Malibu home, which once had four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
He called the fires “shocking and horrific, but not unexpected.” Part of the reason I left California was this perfect storm of mismanagement and failed leadership,” he told Fox News Digital; pictured in January
Cain blamed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying, “You screwed up, Gavin Newsom. You screwed up’; Newsom pictured in 2024
Cain believes Californians and Hollywood liberals may now vote differently, saying, “Once it hits you, your votes change”; a firefighter pictured battling the Mandeville Canyon fire on Sunday
His former home offered breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean.
The single-story home was built in 1976 in the Tony Malibu Country Estates.
The house also featured a private lagoon-shaped pool, a waterfall spa and a terraced garden with roses.
A series of steps allowed the residents of the house to go directly to the beach.
Dean was born in Michigan to mother Sharon and his biological father – whom he never met – Roger Tanaka. Shortly after his birth, Sharon moved him and his brother to Los Angeles, where she married film director Christopher in 1969.
Christopher subsequently adopted Dean and Roger. The couple later moved to Malibu and later had a daughter named Krisinda.
Cain is best known for his role as Clark Kent in the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman between 1993 and 1997.
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names have seen their beloved homes razed to the ground during the devastating wildfires that swept through Los Angeles this week.
Anthony Hopkins, Miles Teller and Anna Faris are just some of the many stars whose beautiful mansions have been reduced to ashes and rubble.
Cain is best known for playing Clark Kent in the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman between 1993 and 1997; seen quietly
More than 200,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate and thousands remain trapped in shelters, unable to return home as authorities begin the arduous task of searching the ash and rubble for human remains.
The fires are still raging a week later, claiming at least 25 lives, destroying an estimated 12,300 structures and ravaging 40,000 hectares of land.
The scale of the destruction is unprecedented, with prime real estate stretching from Malibu to the Palisades and up to Santa Monica wiped off the map.
The death toll is likely to rise, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Monday. At least 20 people have been reported missing, he said.