Celebrity Homes

Ben Affleck's home is becoming a magnet for law enforcement activity ... a couple days after a visit from the FBI and sheriff's deputies, Ben had an animated interaction with police right outside his front gate.

Video shows Ben pulling out of his Brentwood home in his BMW Tuesday ... and there are a couple cops sitting in a car on the street in front of his driveway ... and Ben rolls down his window and voices frustration.

It's hard to make out what exactly has Ben so upset, but it sounds like he's pissed over some private security giving him the third degree as he enters and exits his home.

Jessica Simpson is determined to unload her L.A.-area home amid troubles in her marriage and the ongoing wildfires plaguing the region ... so much so, she's significantly slashed the price.

Here's what we know ... the singer listed her Hidden Hills, Calif. residence for $17.9 million earlier this week -- days before she confirmed her separation from husband Eric Johnson and as wildfires across the city began threatening her star-studded neighborhood.

Jessica, who purchased the 7-bedroom property from Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne for $11.5 million in 2013, first listed the mansion for $22 million back in September 2023 ... but there weren't any serious takers during the months it was on the market. So, she pulled the listing last August.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has an enthusiast vocal ally in her corner amid the backlash over her response to the wildfires -- and it’s none other than the mayor of Inglewood, a city that adjoins L.A.

We caught up with James T. Butts, and he blasted Bass' critics as "misguided" -- and even went on to praise her as one of the most conscientious, confident elected officials he's ever seen.

Check out the clip ... Butts dives into why he believes Bass is excelling in an impossible situation, highlighting the lack of resources she's had to navigate while proving her leadership chops.

Spencer Pratt says he feels like a ghost after losing everything he has in the Pacific Palisades wildfire ... and the weight of starting life from zero and figuring out a way to provide for his family is hitting him hard.

The reality TV star joined us Monday on "TMZ Live" and he opened up to us about watching his life literally go up in smoke ... and it's emotional.

Spencer was born and raised in the Palisades and he says losing his house, all his possessions and his parents' house makes him feel empty and hollow.

Spencer Pratt literally fled his Pacific Palisades home before it burned down with just the shirt on his back ... which is evident from the new video obtained by TMZ.

Spencer and his wife Heidi were at Marshall's in Santa Barbara Sunday, wearing the same shirt he was wearing last Tuesday when the massive fire erupted in his neighborhood, torching the family house he shares with his wife, Heidi Montag, and their 2 kids.

Spencer and Heidi lost everything in the fire, and he's already moving to rebuild their lives. He's trying to get Hulu to do a show with his family, which will help with the enormous cost of rebuilding and restoring.

The FBI checked in on Ben Affleck over the weekend and we got images of agents at the actor's L.A. home ... but he was not in any trouble with the law ... TMZ has learned.

FBI agents, along with L.A. County sheriff deputies, swooped down on the Brentwood neighborhood where Ben now lives after recently divorcing ex-wife Jennifer Lopez.

Check out photos, obtained by TMZ, which show 2 FBI agents standing outside the gate of Ben's house and 2 sheriff deputies walking away from it.

Bobby Berk’s former pad in the Hollywood Hills has strutted off the market in style, fetching the full asking price ... TMZ has learned.

Real estate sources tell TMZ ... the former Netflix star sold his 4-bedroom, 2,924-square-foot abode on Friday for the full asking price of $2.5 million. It's a nice profit seeing he originally purchased the home in in 2019 for $1,375,000.

The "Queer Eye" interior design expert redid the modern home from top to bottom all by himself ... of course! The primary suite features a spa-like bath and a huge walk-in closet. The gourmet kitchen includes high end appliances, marble counters and chic brass cabinets.

Jhené Aiko's dream house is gone, reduced to ash by the Pacific Palisades wildfire ... and, video of the rubble is totally shocking.

The singer-songwriter took to her Instagram this weekend ... sharing a clip from the ruins of her former home -- staring at the burned husk of a car in the driveway.

Aiko then walks up toward where the house used to stand ... walls lying collapsed on the ground and debris littering the property.

Joshua Jackson’s current and childhood home is the latest to be burned to the ground as wildfires continue to torch neighborhoods across the Los Angeles area.

The structure of the home in the Topanga Canyon neighborhood of L.A. was destroyed over the weekend as the Palisades Fire continues to ravage the area.

JJ's swimming pool remains the only thing on the property that's still intact as the flames left the structure and surrounding hillside completely burned.

Paris Hilton's sharing the devastation of the Pacific Palisades Fire, returning to the pile of rubble that was her Malibu home -- and promising L.A. will rise stronger after this tragedy.

The socialite reality star shared a clip of herself walking through the ruins where her house once stood. The walls came crashing down in the blaze, and little pockets of fire are still smoldering -- but there's nothing left to destroy.

Paris wrote a long caption Thursday night to accompany the video, calling the heartbreak indescribable, and adding it feels like her heart shattered into a million pieces.

Edwin Castro -- the lucky Los Angeleno who won a $2 billion lottery jackpot in 2023 -- is the latest victim of the Pacific Palisades wildfire ... losing his Malibu house in the blaze.

A source close to the situation tells TMZ ... Castro's beachfront property was totally destroyed by the fire ... with pictures of the aftermath showing the property completely razed -- wooden foundation boards and not much else on the beach.

The house -- which he reportedly bought for $3.8 million -- sat right off the road ... a small white home with beach access, 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.

Miles Teller's wife, Keleigh Sperry, has shared the chilling last photo she snapped of their Pacific Palisades home -- before it went up in flames.

In the photo, the house still stands, but it's surrounded by raging flames and flying debris, capturing the sheer scale of the chaos as they took one final, heart-wrenching look at their home before rushing to safety.

Keleigh’s next slide paints an even starker picture -- piles of rubble scattered across the ground, making it almost impossible to believe the home in the first photo once stood right there.

The Kardashians fled their homes in Hidden Hills after a dangerous wildfire broke out in the nearby area ... threatening their neighborhood.

Sources tell TMZ ... as of Thursday night, Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kylie, Kendall, Kris and Rob all left their homes. The family followed the mandatory evacuation order that was issued due to the Kenneth Fire, which rapidly spread across 1,000 acres in a few hours.

While the evacuation order has now been lifted, our sources say it's unclear whether the Kardashians have returned home.

1/10 10:06 AM PT -- Hopkins just took to Instagram to address the devastation of the wildfires.

Another major celeb had his property ravaged by the Pacific Palisades wildfire ... this time it's actor Anthony Hopkins, whose home has burned to the ground.

Video obtained by TMZ shows the smoky remains of Sir Anthony's mansion, burned to its very foundation and reduced to charred rubble.

As we've reported, a ton of celebs -- along with a slew of other residents -- have seen their properties destroyed by the wildfires spreading across L.A. this week from the Palisades to Eaton to Pasadena and beyond.

Mel Gibson's Malibu home is literally a pile of ashes, and yet he's got an incredibly lighthearted, positive attitude about it ... joking he's "never seen a place so perfectly burnt."

Mel's 6,500 square foot residence was torched in the Pacific Palisades Fire that was fueled by 100 MPH wind gusts ... all while Mel was out of town. The actor/director was on News Nation Thursday night talking about the disaster that struck while he was doing Joe Rogan's podcast.

He says he was "ill at ease because I knew my neighborhood was on fire" while he was talking to Rogan. He says the Santa Ana winds were just starting to kick up on Tuesday when he took off for Texas -- but you gotta see him described the devastation.

Spencer Pratt's digging through what's left of his and Heidi Montag's home ... searching through the ruins for anything that may have survived the devastating fire.

The reality television star returned to Pacific Palisades Thursday ... just days after his home burned in the Pacific Palisades Fire -- looking high and low around the property for crystals and other personal items.

Check out the pics ... Spencer's standing in the burned remains of the house, picking through blackened pots and grabbing a small silver object -- though it's not totally clear what he's holding.