It’s never good form to focus on how a natural disaster disproportionately affects the wealthy, but it’s a particularly bad idea in the current climate, when phrases like “eat the rich” are trending on X.
But the fact of the matter is that many of the 12,048 residential properties destroyed in the Los Angeles fires in January belonged to celebrities — including Adam Brody, Tyra Banks, Billy Crystal, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, Anthony Hopkins, Paris Hilton, Eugene Levy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John C. Reilly, and Miles Teller — and a majority were owned by people who were at least moderately wealthy, a large portion of whom were behind-the-scenes creatives, execs,
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