{"id":59519,"date":"2026-07-30T21:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/59519\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:37:41","slug":"wildfires-force-george-clooneys-family-to-evacuate-their-home-in-southern-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/59519\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires force George Clooney’s family to evacuate their home in southern France"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS — PARIS (AP) \u2014 George Clooney<\/a> has said his family has been forced to evacuate their home in southeastern France as a wildfire burned nearby, his agent said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood star behind the Ocean\u2019s Eleven franchise and other films made the statement in a letter to Didier Bremond, the mayor of the town of Brignoles, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) east of Marseille, publicist Guido Gotz told The Associated Press in an email.<\/p>\n

Addressed \u201cDear Didier,\u201d the letter said: \u201cAt this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment and as we evacuate Brignoles,\u201d the family wanted to \u201cemphasize two things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c(F)irst we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and I are committed to making sure that whatever happens to our village, we are part of this community and we\u2019ll be part of making it whole,\u201d Clooney wrote, referring to his wife Amal,<\/a> a human rights lawyer. <\/p>\n

The fire near Brignoles broke out Wednesday afternoon and burned some 100 hectares (247 acres), local officials said. The blaze was far smaller than a vast inferno that has swept up the Bordeaux region in southwestern France<\/a> in recent days.<\/p>\n

About 700 residents were evacuated and were allowed to return to their homes on Thursday after the fire was brought under control, they added. <\/p>\n

The French government in December announced<\/a> that the Clooneys along with their their twins<\/a> Ella and Alexander were awarded French citizenship.<\/p>\n

The couple purchased their estate in France<\/a> in 2021. In an interview with Esquire last October, Clooney described their \u201cfarm in France\u201d as their primary residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS — PARIS (AP) \u2014 George Clooney has said his family has been forced to evacuate their home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16970,92,33092,20463,5,83,37078,27430,21540,90],"class_list":["post-59519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-entertainment","tag-evacuations","tag-fires","tag-france","tag-general-news","tag-media-and-entertainment-industry","tag-natural-disasters","tag-wildfires","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}