With the Southern California fires destroying thousands of homes, some stars are doing what they can to help.
Beyoncé has donated $2.5 million through her charity, BeyGOOD. The donation was announced Sunday, and serves as a start to the foundation’s LA Fire Relief Fund.
“Los Angeles we stand with you,” a statement on the charity’s Instagram page began.
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Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD charity donated $2.5 million to LA relief efforts. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
“BeyGOOD is taking action by announcing the LA Fire Relief Fund with a donation of 2.5 million dollars,” the statement continued. “The fund is earmarked to aid families in the Altadena/Pasadena area who lost their homes, and to churches and community centers to address the immediate needs of those affected by the wildfires.”
Founded in 2013, the BeyGOOD foundation concentrates on economic equity, by “supporting marginalized and under-resourced programs,” according to its mission statement.
Beyoncé founded her charity in 2013. (IMAGN)
Several Beyoncé fans took to the comment section of the post to praise her for the massive donation, with many pledging to donate to the fund themselves.
Members of the legendary rock band, Metallica, released a statement, announcing their charitable organization, All Within My Hands Foundation, is donating $500,000 to different organizations providing aid to those affected by the fires in Los Angeles.
According to their statement, the funds will be distributed evenly between the California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the Pasadena Community Foundation’s Eaton Canyon Fire Relief and Recovery Fund, with each getting $250,000.
“The fires raging in the Los Angeles area have relentlessly wreaked havoc and widespread destruction since January 7 and, sadly, do not show signs of slowing down,” the statement reads. “Despite containment progress over the weekend, officials warn residents to stay vigilant as the Santa Ana winds return and are expected to reach up to 70 MPH over the coming days, creating critical fire conditions.”
Metallica’s charitable organization is set to donate $500,000 to aid those affected by the fires in Los Angeles. (Getty Images)
It continued: “In the past week, the community has suffered at least 24 lives lost, nearly 100,000 people under evacuation orders, 40,000 acres burned, and more than 12,000 structures—commercial and residential—destroyed. However, numbers cannot articulate the magnitude of anguish as the disaster upends families and dismantles livelihoods.”
Sharon Stone has been working with a store in LA called The Coop to gather donations for people who have been displaced by the fires.
She shared videos from the store yesterday, showing off the massive amounts of clothing and household goods that had already been donated. She urged people in need to come by to get items, and for others to continue donating what they could to help the community.
Sharon Stone has been working to gather donations for people affected by the fires. (Getty Images; AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
“I’m from Meadville, Pennsylvania,” she said in one video, “and a famous quote by Margaret Mead says ‘Never forget that a group of thoughtful, committed citizens can make a difference.’”
Stone’s video from inside the store showed racks upon racks of clothing, as well as tables loaded with toiletries, bedding, toys and more. She noted that the store had only begun taking donations three hours before, showing how quickly the community had come together to help those in need.
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Halle Berry shared one of Stone’s videos, adding, “I’m packing up my entire closet and heading over to the COOP! If you live in the Southern California area, I urge you to do the same. This is something we can do right now today to help all of the displaced families that are in need of the basics today! Thank you @sharonstone for your leadership. Love you Lady.”
Halle Berry says she’s donating her “entire closet.” (Lionel Hahn)
Jamie Lee Curtis shared on Thursday that she and her family are donating $1 million to relief efforts.
“As the fire still rages on and @calfire @losangelesfiredepartment and all the available first responders and agencies involved in fighting fire and saving lives are still hard at work and neighbors and friends are banding together to save each other, my husband and I and our children have pledged $1 million from our Family Foundation to start a fund of support for our great city and state and the great people who live and love there,” she wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.
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Jamie Lee Curtis has donated $1 million to relief efforts. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb | AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
She added, “I’m in communication with Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and Senator Schiff as to where those funds need to be directed for the most impact.”
The legendary actress also told her followers that she plans on posting regular updates on “where you can send needed resources to reputable agencies.”
Jamie Lee Curtis shared that her neighborhood has been destroyed. (Gilbert Flores/Getty Images)
Curtis has been making frequent posts about the fires since yesterday, when she wrote that while her family is safe, “My community and possibly my home is on fire.”
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She later updated her followers to say that her neighborhood “is gone,” but her house is still standing. Another important location to her, a local church in the Pacific Palisades, was destroyed.
The church, she explained, “had a beautiful Sunday school and school and was a gorgeous house of worship and is the building that I got sober in 25 years ago.”
Fire engulfs a structure as the Palisades Fire burns on the west side of Los Angeles, Jan. 8, 2025. (Ringo Chiu/Reuters)
She continued, “I think of all of the souls who came there for comfort and solace and all the baptisms and funerals and weddings and the thousands of people who reclaimed their lives through Sobriety. Also, the women’s club in the Palisades, where I met many sober people. Both are gone. Tough times. We will persevere. God bless you all.”
Curtis made an emotional appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday night, saying “As you know, where I live is on fire right now. Literally, the entire city of the Pacific Palisades is burning.”
Jamie Lee Curtis made an appearance Wednesday night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP File)
She’d flown to New York City, where Fallon’s show is filmed, and said that during the flight, she started receiving messages from friends, calling the situation “f—ing gnarly.”
During her interview, she took the time to urge people watching to help where they could, whether it be donating money, giving blood or just checking in on friends. She also advised viewers to prepare an emergency kit for their families in case there was ever a need to evacuate quickly.
Paris Hilton also shared her story in a recent Instagram post, writing “While I’ve lost my Malibu home, my thoughts are with the countless families who have lost so much more.”
She explained, being a mother herself, she “can’t imagine the pain and fear of not having a safe place for your babies,” and in order to help all those who are affected by the wildfires, she is “launching an emergency fund through my nonprofit 11:11 Media Impact to support displaced families with young children.”
Hilton is partnering with CORE to provide assistance to families affected by the wildfires. (John Nacion/Variety via Getty Images)
“I’m starting with a personal contribution of $100,000, and will be matching additional dollars raised up to $100,000 more,” she wrote in the caption. “I am looking for others to donate and match alongside me to do our part!”
Later in the caption, she elaborated on the different ways she will be providing assistance, sharing she will be working with CORE to provide cash assistance to those affected, as well as short-term housing, delivering essentials to evacuation centers and supporting animal shelters.
“This effort could not be possible without collaboration and a sense of urgency,” she wrote. “I’m immensely grateful to partner with @agmarks13 for mobilizing private female funders to support this effort so that we can launch today starting with $200,000, @coreresponse for distributing cash assistance to our families while they navigate their needs, @Baby2Baby for distribution of much needed supplies for babies and young children and more.”
The Kardashian family decided to make a kind gesture to first responders. They contacted Armenian restaurant Carousel to prepare hundreds of individual meals that were delivered to multiple fire stations across the city.
Khloé Kardashian and her family donated hundreds of meals to first responders. (SHEIN X 100K Challenge 2021/Getty Images for SHEIN)
“My family and I wanted to feed a few fire houses today and we couldn’t think of a better restaurant to reach out to other than @carouselrestauant,” Khloé Kardashian wrote in a post shared to her Instagram story. “They whipped up hundreds of individual meals for so many firefighters, volunteers, first responders, and we could not be more thankful! Thank you for putting your lives on the line for all of us!”
Kardashian also previously shared resources, as did Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Alba, on how people can help those affected by the fires.
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Mauricio Umansky, founder and CEO of The Agency, a real estate and brokerage firm primarily located in Southern California, told Fox News Digital they have been working hard to get the displaced clients, who live in places like Pacific Palisades, housing. Umansky also starred on the Netflix reality series “Buying Beverly Hills.”
“It’s just been extremely difficult to deal with that,” he said. “On top of that, we do have offices directly where everything is happening in the Altadena Fire, the Pacific Palisades Fire, the one up in Malibu, and we have a tremendous amount of clientele, colleagues, friends, brothers, sisters that have all been affected by the fires. Obviously, the most devastating is the complete loss of a home, and the people being displaced and evacuated and not being able to go home.”
He said the people left homeless need the most help in finding a place to stay.
“And that’s what we do for a living,” he said, adding that they are also imploring landlords not to take advantage of the desperate situation.
He added, “And that humanity has been amazing. People have just been wanting to be helpful for the most cases.”
Mauricio Umansky, founder and CEO of The Agency, a real estate and brokerage firm primarily located in Southern California, told Fox News Digital they have been working hard to get the displaced clients, who live in places like Pacific Palisades, housing. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Homeless Not Toothless)
His team has also brainstormed about how to unlock more housing during the crisis.
“There’s definitely going to be a shortage of housing going on, particularly short-term housing and rentals and all of that stuff. And, you know, we have asked a bunch of our developers in Los Angeles, new development developers that are sitting with vacant homes and unsellable condominiums to think about opening up those condos and to opening up that inventory to short-term rentals.”
He said they’ve also been talking to staging companies about how to ge those homes furnished faster.
The Agency is also helping clients file claims with their insurance company.
“A lot of these people are really, really struggling with their minds and their mindset, and they’re not able to think, they’re affected,” he explained. “They’re frantic. The calls are intense, and we’re just trying to do as much thinking for them as possible and just be, you know, really empathetic.”
He said they have a large clientele base in the affected areas, and they are collaborating with the rest of the real estate community.
“This is not about who’s better or who’s not,” he said. “This is about all of us getting together to help the community, to help our community where we live, where we have our brothers and sisters. And so we’re working with all of the real estate agencies. This is a collaborative effort.”
Mauricio Umansky says his team is working with other real estate agencies to help those affected by the fires. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Jaguar Land Rover)
He said people who have available guest houses or spare rooms can help in the crisis by taking people in.
“There’s going to be a tremendous amount of people out there looking for homes,” he said. “There’s a frenzy. There’s multiple applications for the same homes right now. And, you know, I just implore that, you know, nobody takes advantage. So far humanity has been very good.”
He said one of his clients told him yesterday that they planned to take all of the proceeds made on a rental and give them back to families in need.
One of his agents is also friends with Elon Musk’s brother, he added, saying that they were waiting for a shipment of Starlinks to take to the Pacific Palisades and Malibu to try to get some internet in the area.
“Right now, there’s absolutely zero communication from some of these area,” he explained. “Cell towers are down, wi-fi is down, etc., etc. So, we are just waiting for that shipment, and then we’re going to be heading out.”
Mayim Bialik has been urging her millions of Instagram followers to donate to relief efforts. (Getty Images)
Mayim Bialik shared in a video to Instagram that she’d lost power in her home, but offered a number of links with information on how and where to donate.
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“Full House” star Jodie Sweetin has also been sharing information regularly for people living in the area, writing that she’s “Devastated and heartbroken for the place I call home.”
