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Anne Heche

A Southern California community is rallying around the woman whose home caught fire after being struck by actress Anne Heche’s car last week.

Neighbors have raised more than $50,000 to support Lynne Mishele after her Mar Vista home was destroyed in the crash that left Heche hospitalized with significant burns but in stable condition.

The online fundraiser set up by two neighbors over the weekend has received more than $57,000 a day after it launched.

“Lynne lives with her beautiful pups Bree and Rueban, and tortoise Marley in the Mar Vista home that was destroyed this week by a car driving into the home at a high rate of speed, catching the house on fire,” reads the GoFundMe page organized by Jennifer Durand.

“Lynne and her family very narrowly escaped physical harm, and for that we are very, very grateful.”

Durant says the fundraiser is also being operated by a man named John, with “many” of their neighbors sharing support as well.

Another neighbor, Lynne Bernstein, told People that Mishele is “extremely fortunate” to be alive. Mishele and her pets made it outside of the home without any reported injuries.

The 53-year-old Heche, who received a Daytime Emmy in 1991 for the soap opera “Another World,” was intubated after crashing her blue Mini Cooper into the house and is expected to survive, according to TMZ.

Heche’s car went “almost all the way through” the home, which caught fire nearly immediately, witnesses said. The incident occurred before 11 a.m. local time, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

Mar Vista is part of Los Angeles and is located about 12 miles west of the city’s downtown area.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian

Kanye West showed no mercy after Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson’s breakup.

The rapper on Monday shared an Instagram photo of a fake newspaper headline reading “Skete Davidson dead at age 28.”

The post came three days after reports surfaced that Kardashian and Davidson were done after nine months of dating.

West, who was married to Kardashian from 2014 until their split in 2021, publicly took issue with the reality star’s relationship with the comedian Davidson.

In March, West released a music video for the song “Eazy” that appeared to depict an animated Davidson being kidnapped and buried alive.

Later that month, Davidson texted West that he was “In bed with your wife” during a spat with the “Mercy” rapper, according to screenshots posted on Instagram at the time by comedian Dave Sirus.

West, 45, shared Instagram videos that day complaining about custody of his four kids with Kardashian, saying in one video, “The boyfriend texts me, antagonizing me, bragging about being in bed with my wife.”

Kardashian, 41, and West’s divorce was finalized this year. West, who goes by the stage name Ye, has been publicly vocal about his hopes of getting back together.

The 24-time Grammy winner and the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star have two daughters and two sons. Their kids range in age from 3 to 9 years old.

The Staten Island-born Davidson, 28, ended his eight-season run on “Saturday Night Live” earlier this year. He was previously engaged to pop star Ariana Grande and has also dated the actress Kate Beckinsale.

Willow Smith

Willow Smith didn’t wilt after her dad slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.

The 21-year-old singer told Billboard that the public backlash that followed her father, Will Smith, after the March 27 award show didn’t “rock me as much as my own internal demons.”

“I see my whole family as being human, and I love and accept them for all their humanness,” Willow Smith told the music outlet.

“Because of the position that we’re in, our humanness sometimes isn’t accepted, and we’re expected to act in a way that isn’t conducive to a healthy human life and isn’t conducive to being honest.”

Will Smith was banned from the Oscars for 10 years for slapping Rock, who told a joke at the ceremony about the shaved head of the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

Pinkett Smith has the hair-loss condition alopecia.

The 53-year-old Will Smith has apologized multiple times, including late last month, when he said in a Facebook video, “I’ve reached out to Chris, and the message that came back is that he’s not ready to talk, and when he is, he will reach out.”

Rock then appeared to reference the situation during a comedy set that night in Atlanta, according to CNN.

“Everybody is trying to be a f---ing victim. If everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims,” Rock reportedly said at the time. “Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith ... I went to work the next day, I got kids.”

Will Smith won the Oscar for best actor for his performance in the tennis biopic “King Richard” shortly after the slap incident.

Known for songs such as “Transparent Soul” and “Meet Me At Our Spot,” Willow Smith is the youngest of Will Smith and Pinkett Smith’s two kids. Son Jaden Smith is also a musical artist.

From combined wire services

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