Cara Delevingne's multi-million dollar Studio City home destroyed in fire

STUDIO CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Actress and model Cara Delevingne's multi-million dollar Studio City home was completely destroyed in a massive fire early Friday morning.

The fire erupted around 4 a.m. on North Oakdell Lane, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Just under 100 firefighters responded to extinguish the raging flames.

"There was a very long driveway, where they found a large two-story, single-family home that had fire and smoke showing from the rear," said LAFD Capt. Adam VanGerpen. "This got up into the attic and spread throughout the majority of the home. So the home has a lot of excessive damage."

Several hours later, Delevingne posted a picture of her two cats on her Instagram account with the following message: "MY HEART IS BROKEN TODAY. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. LIFE CAN CHANGE IN A BLINK OF AN EYE. SO CHERISH WHAT YOU HAVE."

Firefighters initially said those two cats may have died in the fire, but Delevingne confirmed in a later post that they both survived.

Delevingne also posted video showing the massive response at the home and a message thanking firefighters.

A house sitter who was inside at the time was treated for minor injuries. A firefighter was taken to the hospital after being injured by a ladder but is expected to be OK.

The home was featured in a 2021 profile in Architectural Digest. The white brick house with two pools and two trampolines in the backyard was built in 1941 for the Von der Ahe family, founders of the Vons grocery chain.

Delevingne and her designer added playful elements, including a costume room for dress-up parties, a bathroom that's a memorial to David Bowie, poker and billiard rooms, and a ball pit.

"If I'm having a bad day, I just hop in the ball pit," Delevingne told the magazine. "You can't really cry in a ball pit."

The cause of the fire, which did not spread beyond the home, is still under investigation.

The 31-year-old London-born Delevingne became widely known as a fashion model in the early 2010s and later began acting, appearing in the 2016 DC Comics film "Suicide Squad" and director Luc Besson's 2017 "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets."

She also appeared in the Hulu series "Only Murders in the Building" with Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez in 2022, and on FX's "American Horror Story" in 2023.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.