Million Dollar Listing star Josh Flagg has been been blasted as ‘tacky’ by fans after he bragged about selling two homes that were ravaged in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The 39-year-old real estate agent shared a startling image of burned Malibu homes along the Pacific Coast Highway to his Instagram on Tuesday with the caption, ‘JUST SOLD!’
The grim photo showed an aerial view of the decimated properties along the coastline. They appeared to be completely burned down, with only the skeletal remains of their walls and roofs standing.
There was a mixture of rubble, debris and ash still visible from the January fires, which took 31 lives, destroyed homes, displaced thousands, and scorched over 40,000 acres across Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
Flagg shared that one of the homes sold for $5,000,000 and the other for $4,650,000, and went on to repost the photo to his Instagram Stories as well.
He was slammed by fans for the ‘awful’ and ‘insensitive’ post, with one writing, ‘This is horrific. Dear god… people died. Pets were lost. So inhumane to post this….’
Million Dollar Listing star Josh Flagg, 39, has been slammed by fans after he bragged about selling two homes that were ravaged in the Los Angeles wildfires; Flagg pictured in 2022
The real estate agent shared a startling image of burned Malibu homes along the Pacific Coast Highway with the caption, ‘JUST SOLD!’
Another wrote: ‘Ohhhhh no. Really? You just had to post this picture? Someone’s burnt memories?’
‘Wow are you really this out of touch??!! Talk about insane privilege. These are people’s homes and memories they tragically lost!’
‘Posting this is in very poor taste.’
‘We don’t need to see the ravaged homes that are being resold to corporations and the ultra wealthy to price out average people,’ another fan wrote.
‘So tone deaf. Very sad reality.’
‘Good for you, but this seems very unnecessary. Triggering and heartbreaking for a lot of people. What a disappointing world we live on.’
‘You living your best life, commission for ashes is crazy work !!’ someone else chimed in.
‘Well that’s a depressing photo,’ another fan wrote, while someone else added, ‘You still have time to take this down.’
‘This is insanely heartbreaking. I hope the owners are healing.’
Another commentator summed up the situation, writing, ‘Some sales you don’t need to post. Even if you represented the seller.’
The grim photo, which he also shared to his Stories, showed an aerial view of the decimated properties along the coastline
He was slammed by fans for the ‘awful’ and ‘insensitive’ post, with one writing, ‘This is horrific. Dear god… people died. Pets were lost. So inhumane to post this….’
The January fires took 31 lives, displaced thousands, and scorched over 40,000 acres across Los Angeles and surrounding areas; A decimated Pacific Palisades pictured on January 10
The total economic loss from the fires is estimated to be $250 billion; A firefighter pictured battling the Palisades Fire
In January, Flagg defended celebrities who faced major backlash for their questionable posts on social media in response to the wildfires; He is pictured August 10 in London
‘I would say everybody’s equal. Everybody’s having a hard time,’ the reality star told DailyMail.com; Seen in a still from Million Dollar Listing
The Los Angeles fires burned for weeks as firefighters worked to get them under control, and torched acres of land in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Pasadena and Altadena.
The total economic loss from the fires is estimated to be $250 billion, which includes factors such as anticipated cleanup costs, housing displacement and businesses shutting down.
Many of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities lost their homes when their affluent neighborhoods were reduced to ash and rubble.
The homes of Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton, Anthony Hopkins, Tina Knowles, John Goodman, Candy Spelling, Milo Ventimiglia, and Miles Teller were among those destroyed.
In January, Flagg defended celebrities who faced major backlash for their questionable posts on social media in response to the wildfires, such as Meghan Markle, who was called a ‘disaster tourist,’ and Mandy Moore, after she asked for GoFundMe donations for her family members.
‘I would say everybody’s equal. Everybody’s having a hard time,’ the reality star told DailyMail.com.
He went on to explain that people could be considered ‘famous’ and not have a lot in their bank account.
‘There’s plenty of celebrities out there that don’t have tons of money. They’re just famous people,’ he continued.
‘Of course, if somebody is privileged enough to have a second home, their life is going to be easier than somebody that doesn’t have a second home.’
‘But there are plenty of celebrities that don’t have a lot of money and have one primary residence that lost their home. And I can guarantee you, it’s just as heart wrenching for somebody who’s worth a billion dollars than for somebody who’s worth a hundred dollars, and it doesn’t really matter.’
Flagg (pictured with co-stars Tracy Tutor and Josh Altman) previously told DailyMail.com that he’s focused on getting houses for the victims of the fires and ‘can’t event think’ about season 16 of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles
He added, ‘Everybody’s entitled to feel how they feel. And of course, some people will be hit harder than others, but there’s no reason to make a celebrity or somebody with a ton of money feel like they’re less important.
‘Everybody is equally as important in this world.’
At the time, Flagg left Los Angeles to work from his property in New York City, and was focused on placing victims in homes.
‘Right now I’m trying to move everybody into houses that lost their home, whether it be a lease or it be a sale for some of my more fortunate clients that can afford to buy another house instead of pay rent or choosing to go that option,’ he explained.
Flagg is best known for his role on the reality show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles.
The fifteenth season of the show premiered on July 10, 2024. Season 16 has been been put on pause after Josh and Heather Altman decided to leave the show last October.
