Palisades Fire Threatens Brentwood, Including the Getty Center
The Palisades fire in Los Angeles lurched east late Friday night, prompting emergency officials to expand mandatory evacuation orders to Brentwood, including the Getty Center.
Like the nearby Pacific Palisades, Brentwood is among the most affluent Los Angeles neighborhoods, a place for manicured suburban living that keeps city life just within reach.
The area has long drawn movie stars, media executives and athletes. Though it was not immediately clear who lives within the expanded evacuation zone, Arnold Schwarzenegger calls Brentwood home. So do Bob Iger, Disney’s chief executive, and LeBron James, who has had to evacuate in the face of wildfires before.
Gwyneth Paltrow recently listed a home for sale there. And years ago, O.J. Simpson lived in a Brentwood mansion. And one of Brentwood’s tony town shopping centers, anchored by a Whole Foods, has an outpost of award-winning chef Suzanne Goin’s wine bar A.O.C. and of the Neapolitan pizza hot spot, Pizzana.
The neighborhood is also home to one of Los Angeles’s cultural crown jewels, the Getty Center, which contains artistic treasures including works by van Gogh and Rembrandt. (Its sister museum, the Getty Villa, was threatened by the fire earlier this week.)
Officials have said both the Getty Center and Getty Villa will be closed at least through Thursday. In a statement on Friday night, a spokeswoman for the institution said it was “complying with the current evacuation order and is closed with only emergency staff on site.”
