{"id":59678,"date":"2026-07-31T05:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/59678\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:02:51","slug":"george-clooney-and-family-evacuate-home-in-france-due-to-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/59678\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney and family evacuate home in France due to wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 George Clooney<\/a> and his family have been forced to evacuate their home in southeastern France because of a wildfire burning nearby, his agent said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood star behind the \u201cOcean\u2019s Eleven\u201d 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 Clooney and his wife Amal,<\/a> a human rights lawyer, had \u201cno idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment.\u201d But as they evacuate Brignoles they wanted to assure Bremond that, whatever happens to the community, \u201cwe\u2019ll be part of making it whole,\u201d the letter said. <\/p>\n

The fire near Brignoles broke out Wednesday afternoon and burned some 100 hectares (250 acres), local officials said. The blaze was far smaller than a vast inferno that has swept up the region around Bordeaux 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

Water-bombing helicopters remained deployed over the area after the evacuation order was lifted, the regional administration said. It said weather conditions remained unfavorable, with high temperatures and winds expected to pick up again in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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

The couple purchased their estate in France<\/a> in 2021, and have been living there with their children. 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 (AP) \u2014 George Clooney and his family have been forced to evacuate their home in southeastern France…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3179,16970,37170,92,17585,33092,20463,5,83,8983,37169,27430,21540,90],"class_list":["post-59678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-climate","tag-climate-and-environment","tag-didier-bremond","tag-entertainment","tag-eurocopa-2024","tag-evacuations","tag-fires","tag-france","tag-general-news","tag-george-clooney","tag-guido-gotz","tag-natural-disasters","tag-wildfires","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59678","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=59678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}