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Jamie Lee Curtis Donates $1 Million

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January 11, 2025

Jamie Lee Curtis has donated $1 million to a aid fund for communities impacted by the continued wildfires within the Los Angeles space.

“As the fireplace nonetheless rages on and @calfire @losangelesfiredepartment and all of the obtainable first responders and companies concerned in combating hearth and saving lives are nonetheless laborious at work and neighbors and associates are banding collectively to avoid wasting one another, my husband and I and our kids have pledged $1 million from our Household Basis to start out a fund of help for our nice metropolis and state and the good individuals who stay and love there,” Curtis wrote on Instagram. “I’m in communication with Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass and Senator Schiff as to the place these funds have to be directed for essentially the most affect.”

Curtis spoke in regards to the devastating fires on “The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday night time, calling the pure catastrophe “fucking gnarly” and “a very terrible state of affairs.”

“As you recognize, the place I stay is on hearth proper now. The complete metropolis of Pacific Palisades is burning. I flew right here final night time, I used to be on the airplane, began getting texts and it’s fucking gnarly, you guys. It’s only a disaster in Southern California,” she stated. “The whole lot: the market I store in, the colleges my youngsters go to. Many, many, many associates now have misplaced their properties. So it’s a very terrible state of affairs.”

The donation comes as firefighters and rescue crews proceed to fight a collection of fires which have wreaked havoc on Southern California. Over 15,000 acres have burned within the Pacific Palisades and Malibu since a fireplace began Tuesday morning, destroying a whole lot of buildings and inflicting mass evacuations within the space. East of L.A., the Eaton Fireplace has burned by means of greater than 10,000 acres, closely impacting the Altadena and Pasadena areas. A 3rd blaze, the Hurst Fireplace, has burned by means of greater than 700 acres at high of the San Fernando Valley.

Because the fires grew Tuesday and Wednesday, the leisure trade started to cancel varied occasions round Los Angeles, together with the crimson carpet premieres of “Unstoppable,” “The Final Showgirl,” “Higher Man” and “Wolf Man.” The Critics Alternative Awards and AFI Awards Luncheon have been each canceled amid the continued fires, whereas Oscar nomination bulletins have been pushed again two days to accommodate an prolonged voting window. Images on varied native productions, akin to “Fallout” and “Abbott Elementary,” have been additionally halted.

The nonprofit Leisure Business Basis activated Wednesday morning to funnel public donations to frontline works and displaced people.

A nonprofit backed by Hollywood energy gamers is stepping as much as assist firefighters, first responders and communities affected by the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles and surrounding areas. The EIF final administered a fund for the 2023 Maui fires, alongside Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson.