{"id":683058,"date":"2026-11-13T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/683058\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T02:04:11","slug":"chris-hemsworth-and-elsa-patakys-northern-rivers-home-targeted-three-cars-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/683058\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky\u2019s Northern Rivers home targeted, three cars stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hemsworth\u2019s home south of Byron Bay has allegedly been broken into with thieves making off with three of the family\u2019s cars.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood star\u2019s wife Elsa Pataky was inside the Broken Head property at the time and reported the incident to police on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>She had woken at about 2am to the sound of dogs barking but did not get up. <\/p>\n<p>A check of the family\u2019s home CCTV the following morning revealed a frightening scene, with a source close to the family telling 7News it allegedly captured a gang of men in balaclavas, two of which appeared to have been armed with knives.<\/p>\n<p>NSW Police were called to the property where they were informed four people had entered the garage and made off with three vehicles; reportedly a BYD, a Ram, and a Raptor ute, which had been parked with the keys inside.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the vehicles have since been recovered, one about an hour south west of the home at Coraki, and the other about two hours west at Tabulam, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are continuing. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hemsworth and Pataky moved to the Byron Bay area with their three children, India, 14, and 12-year-old twins Sasha and Tristan, just over ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was right around the time my boys were born, and it was just, we kind of were set up in LA and not enjoying it, you know?,\u201d the Thor star told the SmartLess podcast of the decision earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else. And then\u2026 you\u2019d come home and paparazzi and all the sort of the trappings of living in that space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They packed up their life in Hollywood for the peace and quiet of the Northern Rivers, purchasing a 4.2 hectare property that overlooks Seven Mile Beach.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, construction started on their \u201cshopping-centre\u201d-sized home surrounded by forest known locally as \u201cFortress Hemsworth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated to be worth about $75 million, it boasts six bedrooms, a steam room, two-lane bowling alley, 50 metre rooftop infinity pool, a tennis court and a dirt bike track.<\/p>\n<p>Hemsworth, who is originally from Melbourne, has described the family\u2019s move to the Byron Bay area as \u201cthe greatest decision\u201d and has said living there makes him feel more grounded and \u201cless famous\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth\u2019s home south of Byron Bay has allegedly been broken into with thieves making off with three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[288768,288820,288808,288775,288769,288767,288781,288774,288777,288766,288796,288761,288778,288806,288803,288813,288783,288763,288800,288780,234277,288789,288792,288802,288793,288764,288788,275294,288795,66682,321,4661,2127,288821,16191,244307,30276,93,288804,45151,189899,288814,3211,288807,61,2568,60,288762,11915,288770,105692,288791,24785,2092,26642,288809,288794,288790,8519,288785,288779,288798,266190,288772,288776,234222,203381,288782,288787,288819,288815,263656,258131,288765,288817,288773,288811,263596,288816,288797,288801,203942,288786,288810,288818,288799,288812,135948,288771,288784,288805,11381],"class_list":["post-683058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-s-cars","tag-s-home-cctv","tag-s-home-south","tag-s-move","tag-s-northern-rivers-home","tag-s-wife-elsa-pataky","tag-fortress-hemsworth","tag-12-year-old-twins-sasha-and-tristan","tag-288777","tag-3-cars","tag-50-metre-rooftop-infinity-pool","tag-7news","tag-a-4-2-hectare-property","tag-a-byd","tag-a-check","tag-a-dirt-bike-track-hemsworth","tag-a-frightening-scene","tag-a-gang","tag-a-ram","tag-a-raptor-ute","tag-a-source-close","tag-a-steam-room","tag-a-tennis-court","tag-about-75-million","tag-about-2am","tag-about-two-hours","tag-all-the-sort","tag-an-hour","tag-balaclavas","tag-byron-bay","tag-celebrities","tag-chris-hemsworth","tag-construction","tag-coraki","tag-dogs","tag-earlier-this-year","tag-elsa-pataky","tag-entertainment","tag-everywhere-else","tag-forest","tag-four-people","tag-hemsworth","tag-hollywood","tag-home-and-paparazzi","tag-ie","tag-india","tag-ireland","tag-just-over-ten-years","tag-kind","tag-knives-nsw","tag-la","tag-masked-men","tag-melbourne","tag-men","tag-morning","tag-my-boys","tag-no-injuries","tag-pataky","tag-police","tag-seven-mile-beach-in-2017","tag-six-bedrooms","tag-tabulam","tag-that-space","tag-the-broken-head-property","tag-the-byron-bay-area","tag-the-decision","tag-the-family","tag-the-following-morning","tag-the-garage","tag-the-greatest-decision","tag-the-hollywood-star","tag-the-home","tag-the-incident","tag-the-keys-inside-two","tag-the-northern-rivers","tag-the-other","tag-the-peace-and-quiet","tag-the-property","tag-the-smartless-podcast","tag-the-sound","tag-the-thor-star","tag-the-time","tag-the-trappings","tag-the-vehicles","tag-their-shopping-centre-sized-home","tag-their-life","tag-their-three-children","tag-thieves","tag-three-cars","tag-three-vehicles","tag-two-lane-bowling-alley","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}