During a recent interview with the Daily Mail,<\/a> the 46-year-old “Breaking Bad” star shared that he and his family have left Los Angeles and are now living in Paris.<\/p>\n “Paris is awesome,” he told the outlet, explaining that he and his wife, Lauren, have “always dreamt of doing a year abroad” and that the two of them “just always wanted to be around a completely different culture.”<\/p>\n While it has always been their dream to live outside the U.S., it wasn’t until the wildfires in Los Angeles in early 2025 that they put steps in motion to make their dream a reality.<\/p>\n Paul shared that he and his family left Los Angeles and moved to Paris. (Greg Doherty\/Getty Images for American Express)<\/p>\n COMEDIAN JEFF DYE JOINS HOLLYWOOD EXODUS, SAYS LA FIRES WERE ‘QUITE A WAKE-UP CALL’<\/a><\/p>\n “When the fires happened in LA<\/a>, we just knew that we were done with LA, so we sold our house in LA and moved to Paris,” he said.<\/p>\n The actor put his three-bedroom home in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood on the market in July for $9.9 million.<\/p>\n Homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena were lost while both the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire burned through their respective areas in January.<\/p>\n Many Hollywood stars, including “Top Gun: Maverick” actor Miles Teller, Paris Hilton, Mandy Moore, Billy Crystal<\/a> and others were among the thousands of people who lost their homes in the fires.<\/p>\n Billy Crystal is one of many celebrities who lost their homes in the LA fires. (Scott Dudelson\/Getty Images for FIREAID)<\/p>\n “You’ll be hearing from a number of people who were tragically affected by these fires, and I was one of them,” Crystal said on stage at the LA FireAid Benefit Concert<\/a> in January. “These were the clothes I wore when I fled my house with my wife, Janice, like so many of us did, on Jan. 7. This was all I had. Wore it for a week, plus an N-95 mask.<\/p>\n “I stepped onto the grounds and fell to my knees and I wailed,” the first time he was allowed back onto the property of the home he lived in for 46 years. He concluded his speech with an uplifting message, telling everyone, “We will laugh again. We are going to listen to music again and we will be OK.”<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n Paul is not the only actor to leave Hollywood for a life abroad. Richard Gere shared last year that he and his family moved to Spain, his wife Alejandra Silva’s native country.<\/p>\n “It’s time for my wife to be around her family and friends and culture,” Gere told Fox News Digital in November 2024. “And [it\u2019s] good for our kids. I think it’s great to be living, not just visiting, but living in another culture.”<\/p>\n Richard Gere is now living in Spain. (Daniele Venturelli\/WireImage\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Gere further opened up about his decision to move to Spain in an interview with Vanity Fair Spain<\/a> in April 2024, saying it would be “a great adventure” because he had “never lived full time outside the United States.”<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n Silva says they will go back and forth between Spain and the U.S. (Carlos Alvarez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n He added that it would be good for his wife to be around her friends and family, noting, “She was very generous in giving me six years living in my world, so I think it’s fair that I give her at least six others living in hers.<\/p>\n![\"Aaron](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aaron-paul-mirror-wall.jpg\")
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