$3M house of LA CEO who provided ‘any quantity’ for personal safety burns down in Palisades fireplace

The tony Los Angeles house belonging to an actual property bigwig — who acquired slammed for providing to “pay any quantity” for personal fireplace safety — has been utterly gutted within the Palisades Fireplace, in keeping with on-line information.

LA County’s official restoration web site lists Keith Wasserman’s handle as “destroyed” — with a photograph of the once-handsome house diminished to a pile of burnt rubble.

Wasserman, the co-founder of actual property funding firm Gelt Enterprise Companions, sparked outrage over his plea on X for personal firefighter safety within the historic LA fires — because the properties of bizarre people went up in smoke.

“Does anybody have entry to personal firefighters to guard our house in Pacific Palisades? Must act quick right here. All neighbors homes burning. Pays any quantity. Thanks,” he posted to his now-deleted X account.

Commenters had been fast to flame the viral SOS as grasping and “tone deaf.”

However Wasserman doubled down, calling his critics “trolls!” and clarifying that he had already evacuated.

The LA Restoration web site reveals each home on Wasserman’s block within the prosperous Pacific Palisades neighborhood has burned down.

Public information present Wasserman’s two-story house was value round $3 million in 2023, which on the time was effectively beneath the median Pacific Palisades house worth of $5 million, in keeping with knowledge reported by Forbes.

The median house worth had fallen to simply over $3 million by the point of the hearth.

The LA County Recovers map additionally reveals some properties that miraculously escaped destroy within the Palisades Fireplace, which has torched over 23,000 acres and killed no less than eight individuals since Tuesday.