Aaron Paul has said goodbye to life in Los Angeles. During a recent interview, the 46-year-old Breaking Bad star revealed that he and his family have left Los Angeles and are now living in Paris. “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.”
While living abroad had long been a dream for the couple, it wasn’t until the wildfires that swept through Los Angeles in early 2025 that they took steps to make that dream a reality. “When the fires happened in LA, we just knew that we were done with LA, so we sold our house in LA and moved to Paris,” Paul said.
The actor had put his three-bedroom home in Los Feliz on the market in July for $9.9 million. The Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas were heavily impacted as the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire burned through their neighborhoods in January, destroying many homes.
Many Hollywood stars, including Top Gun: Maverick actor Miles Teller, Paris Hilton, Mandy Moore, Billy Crystal, and others were among the thousands affected by the fires. Billy Crystal, speaking at the LA FireAid Benefit Concert in January, shared, “You’ll be hearing from a number of people who were tragically affected by these fires, and I was one of them.
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. I stepped onto the grounds and fell to my knees and I wailed,” referring to returning to the home he had lived in for 46 years. He concluded with an uplifting message: “We will laugh again. We are going to listen to music again and we will be OK.”
Paul is not the only actor choosing life abroad after the Los Angeles fires. Richard Gere shared last year that he and his family moved to Spain, his wife Alejandra Silva’s native country. “It’s time for my wife to be around her family and friends and culture,” Gere told in November 2024. “And [it’s] good for our kids. I think it’s great to be living, not just visiting, but living in another culture.”
In an April 2024 interview, Gere added that the move would be “a great adventure” because he had “never lived full time outside the United States.” Silva also shared that they travel back and forth between Spain and the U.S., noting, “I’m with my family … I missed them a lot. But I miss the U.S. So we come back and forth.”