Barbara Corcoran Creates GoFundMe for Residents of ‘Beloved’ Pacific Palisades Mobile Home Park
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Founder of the Corcoran Group and star of “Shark Tank.” Barbara Corcoran launched a GoFundMe campaign to help residents of the Pacific Palisades mobile home park she calls her “little piece of paradise” that was hit by the wildfires in California.
The “beloved” Tahitian Terrace Mobile Home Park, where she and others owned homes, “was completely destroyed when the devastating Palisades Fire moved quickly through the park on Tuesday,” Corcoran said Thursday on social media.
Her GoFundMe fundraiser had raised $117,364 as of 3:00 PM ET on Friday, according to the page. It has a declared goal of $600,000.
Businesswoman Barbara Corcoran attends FOX Business’ “The Claman Countdown” at the Fox Business Network Studios on May 31, 2023 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Corcoran told FOX Business on Friday that she was “absolutely devastated by the massive devastation Los Angeles.”
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“Pacific Palisades and especially the community of Tahitian Terrace is a little piece of heaven,” she said. “I have been fortunate enough to have had a home in the community for the past five years and have made lasting friendships with some of the kindest, most selfless and genuine people I have ever met. Many of the residents, most of them elderly, have built their lives here over many decades and plan to live out their pension here. They lost absolutely everything.”
Corcoran said she donated $100,000 of her own funds to the GoFundMe.
The money raised through her GoFundMe fundraiser will help residents of the Tahitian Terrace Mobile Home Park with “immediate necessities like food, clothing and shelter as they take the first steps toward rebuilding their lives,” according to the GoFundMe page.
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Corcoran said FOX Business she “worked with the HOA to address the immediate needs of displaced residents.”
The Palisades Fire that hit the mobile home park started on Tuesday and had burned through 20,400 acres in the Los Angeles area by Friday afternoon, according to CalFire. The fire, which is 8% contained, destroyed over 5,000 buildings.
A firefighter stands on top of a fire truck to battle the Palisades Fire as homes burn on Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful storm on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The fast-growing wildfire has grown to more than 2,900 (Apu Gomes/Getty Images/Getty Images)
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Southern California is also battling at least four other wildfires – the Eaton Fire, the Kenneth Fire, the Hurst Fire and the Lidia Fire.
Plumes of smoke are seen as brush burns in Pacific Palisades, California, January 7, 2025. A fast-moving brush fire in suburban Los Angeles burned buildings and prompted evacuations Tuesday as “life-threatening” winds lashed the region. More (David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
In combination, five fires on Friday afternoon, it covered almost 36,300 hectares. At least 10 people in the Los Angeles area have died.
