Actress and model Cara Delevingne‘s Hollywood home was destroyed in a fire on Friday while she was out of town.
According to AP, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department reported that one firefighter was taken to a hospital in fair condition with unspecified injuries, and one unidentified person from the house suffered minor smoke inhalation
Delevingne has shared several Instagram stories about the fire after TMZ reported that her Studio City house was engulfed in flames. At the time of the fire, Delevingne was in London as she’s currently appearing in a production of “Cabaret” on the West End.
According to the LAFD, the fire began in the rear of the house and spread to the attic. Firefighters rushed to ensure everyone was out of the house just before the roof collapsed. It took them more than two hours to completely put out the fire.
Delevingne shared a video hours later showing a street full of fire trucks with flashing lights.
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the firefighters and people that have showed up to help,” she captioned another story.
The actress had initially thought she lost her two cats in the fire but later shared that they were safe. Her initial post, which featured a picture of both cats, read: “My heart is broken today I cannot believe it life can change in the blink of an eye cherish what you have.”
The two-story white brick house with two pools and two trampolines was built in 1941 for the Von der Ahe family, founders of the Vons grocery chain.
Delevingne and her designer added playful elements, including a costume room for dress-up parties, a bathroom that’s a memorial to David Bowie, poker and billiard rooms, and a ball pit.
“If I’m having a bad day, I just hop in the ball pit,” Delevingne told Architectural Digest in a 2021 interview. “You can’t really cry in a ball pit.”
The cause of the fire is unclear at this point but is under investigation. Delevingne’s representatives have not immediately responded to comment.
Delevingne, 31, became widely known as a fashion model in the early 2010s and later jumpstarted her acting career in the 2016 DC Comics film Suicide Squad and director Luc Besson’s 2017 Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
She also appeared in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez in 2022, and most recently on FX’s American Horror Story: Delicate in 2023.