2025 Celebrity Events: The Year’s Biggest Moments

It’s not just engagements, weddings and births that have marked the stars’ year. Fire, scam, illness, lawsuit or even change of nationality… In 2025, the lives of French and foreign celebrities have caused a lot of ink to flow. Paris Match gives you the summary, in twelve events to (re)discover before moving on to 2026.

Laeticia Hallyday’s house reduced to ashes

The year 2025 began in flames and tears for Laeticia Hallyday. At the beginning of January, Johnny’s widow lost her villa in Pacific Palisades in the fires that ravaged the Los Angeles region. A house in which she lived with her daughters Jade and Joy and which was the symbol of the new chapter of their lives after the sale of the house in which they lived with the Taulier. A drama in which Laeticia unfortunately lost many irreplaceable memories.

Anne and the fake Brad Pitt

It’s a story of a scam that backfired on the victim, mocked for their gullibility. By testifying in a report by “Sept à Huit” on January 12, to tell how she was robbed of 830,000 euros by a “grazer” posing as Brad Pitt, Anne, 53, was the subject of numerous mockeries and parodies on social networks. A wave of harassment denounced by several personalities such as the journalist from “Sept à Huit” Harry Roselmack. On the other side of the Atlantic, the actor’s teams also reacted and deplored this scam.

Lio faces the tragic death of his son

At the beginning of March, Paris Match revealed that Lio’s son had died in terrible circumstances. The body of Diego, 21, was found near Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, after he set himself on fire. It was during a trip to Thailand that the young man fell ill, “most likely as a result of taking drugs”, as his father, Jean-Pierre Bellay, explained in a letter addressed to Paris Match.

Cyril Hanouna and Tiphaine Auzière, an unexpected story

This is a couple that no one saw coming. In mid-March, Paris Match revealed, with supporting photos, the hitherto discreet relationship between Cyril Hanouna and Tiphaine Auzière. A favorite that dates back to the first intervention of Brigitte Macron’s daughter on the set of “TPMP”, in October 2024, as a legal columnist. A story that lasts forever, since the host and the lawyer never leave each other.

Eric Dane’s fight against illness

In April, American actor Eric Dane revealed he had Charcot disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a serious neurodegenerative disease which results in progressive paralysis of the muscles. At 53, the man who made himself known by playing the role of Doctor Sloane in the series “Grey’s Anatomy” has since spoken on several occasions about his fight against the disease: “I am angry because my father was taken from me when I was young, and now there is a good chance that I will be taken from my daughters while they are still,” said the father of Billie and Georgia, 15 and 14 years old, whom he shares with his ex-wife, actress Rebecca Gayheart.

Gérard Depardieu sentenced

In May, after a high-profile trial, Gérard Depardieu was found guilty of sexual assault on two women, which occurred on the set of the film “Les Volets Verts” in 2021. The 76-year-old actor received an 18-month suspended prison sentence and had to pay damages to the civil parties.

Rupture au sein du clan Beckham

Rumors of tensions between the Beckhams and their son Brooklyn gained credibility last May, when the latter was conspicuous by his absence at the former footballer’s 50th birthday party. Now settled in the United States with his wife Nicola Peltz, Brooklyn keeps a good distance from his famous parents, but also from his brothers Romeo and Cruz, and his sister Harper. In addition to rumors of a quarrel between Nicola and Victoria at the time of the wedding in 2022, tensions would have pitted Brooklyn against her brother Romeo, who was for a time in a relationship with Kim Turnbull, his alleged ex-girlfriend.

War was openly declared just before Christmas, when Brooklyn unfollowed her parents’ Instagram accounts and his brothers. A gesture that seems like nothing but which, in the world of celebrities, means a lot…

Sydney Sweeney, aborted revelation?

With her blonde hair, her confident sensuality and her big blue eyes, Sydney Sweeney was the new debutante to follow in Hollywood… until she posed for American Eagle jeans brand in July, and found herself at the heart of a debate over an advertisement deemed eugenic and discriminatory. The 27-year-old actress, revealed in the series “White Lotus” and “Euphoria”, immediately attracted the wrath of some of her fans when her support for the Republican Party was revealed.

Her new love affair with the music producer Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift’s sworn enemyhas finished weighing down his meteoric rise. Will the release at the end of the year of the highly anticipated adaptation of the best-seller “The Maid”, in which she plays the main role, put her back on the path to glory?

Kim Kardashian at the Paris courthouse

It took nine years for Kim Kardashian to come face to face with the “robber grandpas” who attacked her on October 3, 2016 in her hotel room in Paris. Sequestered, dispossessed of her jewelry worth 9 million euros, the American star returned to Paris on May 13 to testify during the trial of her attackers at the Paris courthouse. Like a snub, she wore a large diamond necklace around her neck. The ten defendants were ultimately sentenced to up to three years in prison.

P. Diddy in prison

Incarcerated since September 2024, P. Diddy saw his trial for sex trafficking open the following May, in New York, with the international press in the front row. Despite numerous damning testimonies, including that of his ex-partner Cassie, the famous producer was not found guilty of sex trafficking and criminal conspiracy, but it was still convicted of transporting people for the purposes of prostitution last October 3. Conviction for which he received four years and two months in prison. He therefore spent his second Thanksgiving in Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey.

At the Delons, the attacks are coming

The Delon children’s fratricidal war took an even more dramatic turn when the youngest Alain-Fabien announced his intention to sue his sister Anouchka on December 11. He is in fact contesting a second will signed in 2022 by his father when, according to him, he was no longer able to do so. Amendment which favors his sister, present at the notary, chosen as the sole heir of their father’s moral rights. Following the announcement of this legal action, Anouchka responded with a scathing letter addressed to his younger brother.

Siblings who also disagree over the future of the family estate of Brûlerie, in Loiret, where the Samurai rests. Last home that is expensive to maintain, which Anthony and Anouchka would like to sell, unlike Alain-Fabien. A three-way standoff that unfortunately seems set to last…

The Clooneys are French!

Paris Match revealed it on December 29: after four years spent in their vineyard in Brignoles, in the Var, George Clooney, his wife Amal and their children were naturalized French. Although he does not master the language of Molière, the American actor cherishes his new family life in the south of France, where his twins Ella and Alexander (8 years old) can grow up in peace.