George Clooney and his wife, Amal Clooney, have been forced to evacuate their home in France as wildfires rage across Europe.
The couple lives in Brignoles, a town in the Southeast of France, with their nine-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella.
George and Amal Clooney first met in July 2013, tying the knot in a private Venice ceremony in September 2014. Alberto Pezzali/Invision/AP
The Associated Press reports that the fires in France are currently four times the size of Paris, with over 200,000 residents and tourists forced to flee.
According to People, the family wrote a letter to Brignoles Mayor Didier Brémond addressing the devastation across Europe.
“Dear Didier, at this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment,” the letter began.
“As we evacuate Brignoles we want to emphasise two things, first we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and I are committed to making sure that whatever happens to our village, we are part of this community and we’ll be part of making it whole.
“We love Brignoles and our friends who live there.”
The couple purchased the 172-hectare Domaine de Canadel in 2021 for around $USD8.3 million (approximately $11.9 million), eventually making the property their primary residence.
George has spoken extensively about their choice to relocate to Europe, revolving around providing their children with a level of privacy they wouldn’t have in the United States.
While George works predominantly in the entertainment industry, Amal is an international human rights lawyer, and the couple has also co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
“A lot of people – even who reach a fairly high level of fame – find a way to be able to kind of live a normal life, walk around the streets of New York without being followed and stuff like that,” Clooney told fellow star Brad Pitt in a 2025 interview with GQ.
“And there’s, I dunno, five or six of us where it’s just never subsided. And there’s never been that like, ‘Hey, let’s take a walk through Central Park and not get hammered’.
The couple welcomed their twins on June 6, 2017, and have endeavoured to live a private life since. WireImage
“It just hasn’t happened yet. It will, obviously. But it hasn’t happened yet. So I have a goal of trying to protect, I don’t want pictures of my kids.
“We deal in very serious subject matters, with very serious bad guys, and we don’t want to have photos of our kids out there. So we have to work hard at trying to stay private, and it’s tricky, as you can imagine.”