A fire that destroyed model and actress Cara Delevingne’s Los Angeles home was likely caused by an electrical issue, her parents have revealed.
The star’s parents spoke out after her home in the Studio City neighbourhood was gutted by the blaze on Friday morning.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said crews responded to the 6,650-square-foot, two-story house just after 6am and found a fire had broken out that “consumed one room in the rear and developed into a deep-seated attic fire”.
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Firefighters confirmed everyone was out of the home and began to fight the flames when the roof of the property collapsed.
“Ultimately, it took 94 firefighters 2 hours and 16 minutes to access, confine and extinguish the flames,” the department said.
One firefighter was taken to a local hospital in “fair condition” and one of the home’s occupants had minor smoke inhalation.
Delevingne was not home at the time, as the actor was in London starring as Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
While authorities are still investigating the official cause, the star’s parents, Pandora and Charles Delevingne, told TMZ it appeared to stem from an electrical issue.
Charles, who is in London with Pandora, revealed it was an electrical fire that got out of control following a “very windy” night in southern California.
Delevingne said her “heart is broken” over the blaze.
“I cannot believe it,” she wrote on Instagram.
“Life can change in a blink of an eye so cherish what you have.”
The star confirmed her two cats were safe and had been rescued from the fire.
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the firefighters and people that have showed up to help,” she said.
The 31-year-old London-born Delevingne became widely known as a fashion model in the early 2010s.
She later began acting, appearing 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 on FX’s American Horror Story in 2023.
– With NBC and AP
