Hawaii wildfires threaten Oprah’s Maui estate, other A-listers’ homes

The fast-moving wildfires ravaging Maui have killed at the least 36 individuals and decimated a whole bunch of constructions – a lot of them cultural and historic landmarks – on the once-idyllic Hawaiian island.

Among the many destroyed buildings is the eponymous Lahaina restaurant of British rocker Mick Fleetwood.

“This can be a devastating second for Maui, and plenty of are struggling unimaginable loss,” the 76-year-old Fleetwood Mac co-founder posted on Facebook late Wednesday.

“Fleetwood’s on Entrance Road has been misplaced and whereas we’re heartbroken, our predominant precedence is the security of our expensive employees and crew members.”

Lahaina — a beloved historic hamlet with a inhabitants of about 12,000 — has been “residence” for Fleetwood for many years.

The city has suffered a number of the worst injury within the fires, with some residents leaping into the water to flee the blazing warmth and others likening the catastrophe to “an apocalypse.”

Your complete island of Maui has lengthy been a favourite vacation spot for rock stars, Hollywood A-listers and titans of trade.

In 2021, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 59, dropped a cool $78 million on a 14-acre property surrounded by hundreds of acres of dormant lava fields close to Le Perouse Bay – an space within the southwest that gave the impression to be much less impacted than different areas of the island, as three fires nonetheless raged Thursday.

In the meantime, Oprah Winfrey, 69, has spent greater than 15 years residing part-time in Maui, the place she has numerous properties.

This previous February, she paid $6.6 million for 870 acres of land in Kula, an space in central Maui sandwiched between the South Maui and Upcountry wildfires.

No less than two houses had been destroyed in Kula and a few 80 individuals have been evacuated from 40 houses, fireplace officers told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Winfrey additionally owns 1,200 acres elsewhere on the island, together with in Hana and close to Mount Haleakala, MauiNow.com reported. Each areas are comparatively removed from the fires.

Nestled within the slopes of Mount Haleakala, a ten,000-foot volcanic peak, Winfrey’s secluded farmhouse getaway includes a wraparound porch that appeals to her rural upbringing.

“I like, love, love my home,” Winfrey told Oprah.com in 2006. “It’s a gem, so candy and beautiful. Such an actual, regular home. It appears like a pleasant blanket … A stunning and smooth cashmere one.”

Clint Eastwood, 93, is one other longtime Maui resident.

He has reportedly lived on the island part-time because the late Nineteen Seventies, absorbing the solar and gorgeous ocean views in Kapalua, a stretch alongside the northwest coast lower than 10 miles from Lahaina.

Elsewhere in Maui County, rocker Steven Tyler, 75, is said to have a 3,000-square-foot waterfront mansion on a nature protect in Wailea that he purchased for $4.8 million in 2012. 

Whereas components of Wailea seem comparatively close to the South Maui fireplace, some resorts within the southwest Maui hotspot – together with the 4 Seasons Wailea, the place “The White Lotus” was filmed – are open for enterprise.

Different well-known Maui residents reportedly include actors Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.

Van Halen’s Sammy Hagar additionally has a bar and restaurant in Kahului, close to Maui’s predominant airport, which stays operational as vacationers and residents flee the island.

Former President Barack Obama, who was born in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, mentioned the widespread devastation was tough to look at from afar.

“It’s robust to see a number of the photos popping out of Hawai’i — a spot that’s so particular to so many people,” Obama, 62, wrote Wednesday on social media. “Michelle and I are pondering of everybody who has misplaced a cherished one, or whose life has been turned the wrong way up.”