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'Hey Selena Gomez, How about you call all of "your people" you're crying about being deported and invite them to stay at your mansion behind your big walls and gates until they leave?' Boller wrote. Gomez had purchased the home of late rock star Tom Petty for $4.9million in 2020, according to Home Beautiful. The more than 11,000-square-foot Encino, California property - which was custom-built by Petty and his wife Jane Benyo in 1989

Californians are facing fresh peril over the devastating wildfires as the largest of the blazes continues to spread - with officials now warning that fast and erratic winds may spread the fires throughout untouched areas over the weekend. The disaster has already claimed the lives of at least 11 people and destroyed more than 10,000 structures. Now the expansion of Los Angeles' Palisades fire has partially shuttered the 405 freeway, as the flames begin to encroach on the celebrity neighborhoods of Mandeville Canyon and Brentwood. Los Angeles County is still battling at least six major fires with most barely contained....

Social workers have launched an investigation over claims Michael Jackson's youngest son was threatened with a stun-gun by one of his cousins. Officials opened a child protection file on the family after a 300,000-volt weapon was removed from the home where the late singer's three children live with their 80-year-old grandmother. Jackson's eight-year-old son Blanket was allegedly chased by his 13-year-old cousin Jaafar - the son of Michael's brother Jermaine - with the gun before being stopped by security guards.

William Herskovic, who helped fuel the Belgian resistance during World War II after escaping from the Auschwitz concentration camp, has died. He was 91. Herskovic died Friday at his Encino home after a lengthy battle with cancer, said his daughter, Patricia Herskovic. He was the longtime operator of Bel Air Camera in Westwood, which he opened soon after moving to Los Angeles in 1957. Three months after arriving at Auschwitz, Herskovic fled the camp on the first night of Hanukkah in 1942, cutting through a chain-link fence to freedom with two other prisoners using a pair of wire cutters he...