Camille Grammer House: The Malibu Home She Lost to the Woolsey Fire

Camille Grammer’s Malibu house burned down in the Woolsey Fire in November 2018. The structure, close to 6,000 square feet, was so badly damaged that it had to be decontaminated, demolished, and carted away. Of everything inside it, she recovered a handful of family photographs.

What happened next is the useful part of this story. She already owned a much smaller beachfront property nearby, bought a few years earlier as an investment for around $6.55 million. She lived in a 1,200-square-foot trailer by the water for months, remodelled that small house, moved into it, and eventually sold it for $9.4 million.

This guide covers the loss, the rebuild that was actually a relocation, and where she lives now.

Camille Grammer’s Malibu properties

Property	Details	Outcome
Malibu mansion, close to 6,000 sq ft	One of two Malibu properties she owned	Destroyed in the November 2018 Woolsey Fire; demolished afterwards
Beachfront house, 2,043 sq ft, three bedrooms, 50 feet of beach frontage	Built in the 1950s, reworked in the 1980s; bought for around $6.55 million as an investment	Completely remodelled after the fire and lived in; later sold for $9.4 million
Hawaii home	Bought after selling the property she had owned with Kelsey Grammer	Owned

Who is Camille Grammer?

Camille Grammer, who also uses her married name Camille Grammer Meyer, is an American television personality and was an original cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills when it launched in 2010. She was married to the actor Kelsey Grammer from 1997 until their divorce was finalised in 2011, and married the lawyer David C. Meyer in 2018. She has two children.

Her Malibu properties have been documented in unusual detail because Bravo covered both the fire and the rebuild across several years, which means there is far more material on her housing than there would otherwise be.

The Woolsey Fire

The Woolsey Fire began in November 2018 and burned through Malibu and the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains, destroying more than a thousand structures.

Grammer’s mansion was among them. She shared photographs of what was left, which was essentially nothing above the foundations. The remains had to be treated as contaminated: fire debris at that scale contains asbestos, heavy metals, and other hazards, and the site required decontamination before the structure could be demolished and removed. That process took a long time, and she spoke publicly about the difficulty of getting through it.

She retrieved a small number of family photographs from the site. Everything else in the house was gone.

Malibu and the canyons around it have been hit repeatedly since, and the pattern of loss is documented elsewhere on this site, including in the account of Jhené Aiko’s home, destroyed in a later fire.

The trailer, and the house she already owned

For months after the fire, she lived in a mobile home of about 1,200 square feet, positioned overlooking the Pacific. That is roughly a fifth of the floor area of the house she had lost.

Rather than rebuild on the burned site, she turned to a property she already had. She had bought a beachfront house nearby a few years earlier as an investment, for around $6.55 million. It was originally built in the 1950s, reworked in the 1980s, and ran 2,043 square feet with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and fifty feet of beach frontage.

She remodelled it completely and moved in with her husband and children. Bravo documented the process and the finished house across several segments.

That decision is worth understanding. Rebuilding a 6,000-square-foot house on a fire-damaged Malibu site involves site remediation, coastal permitting, insurance disputes, and years of construction. Renovating a house she already owned, on the beach, was faster and considerably more certain, even though it meant living in a third of the space.

The sale

Several years after moving in, she sold the remodelled beachfront house for $9.4 million, against roughly $6.6 million paid about seven years earlier.

That is a gain of around $2.8 million before the cost of the remodel, which was substantial and has not been publicly itemised. Fifty feet of direct beach frontage is the scarce commodity on that coast, and it is what the buyer was paying for rather than the 2,043 square feet of house on it.

Where does Camille Grammer live now?

The public record does not establish a single current residence.

What is documented: the mansion was destroyed in 2018 and demolished; the beachfront house she remodelled and lived in has since been sold; and she owns a home in Hawaii, bought after she sold the property she had owned with Kelsey Grammer.

Hawaii is therefore the most likely base on the available evidence, but no reporting states it directly as her primary residence, and she may well have bought elsewhere in a transaction that has not surfaced. This article will not pick one.

What can be said with confidence is that she no longer owns either of the Malibu properties she is best known for, and that anyone presenting a current Camille Grammer Malibu mansion is describing a house that either burned down in 2018 or was sold afterwards. Property records attached to reality cast members are frequently years out of date in exactly this way, a pattern also visible in the coverage of Erika Jayne’s homes.

Sources

• Newsweek on the destruction of her Malibu home in the Woolsey Fire.
• Bravo on the demolition and decontamination of the site and the items recovered.
• Bravo and Bravo on the beachfront house she bought as an investment, its size and features, the trailer she lived in, and the completed remodel.
• Robb Report on the $9.4 million sale of the Malibu beach house.