All the celebrities who fled the US after Trump’s 2024 election victory

When President Trump moved again into the White Home on Jan. 20, it triggered a considerably stunning migration development amongst a few of Hollywood’s largest stars, who promptly packed their luggage and relocated overseas, with many citing their upset over his election win as the explanation for his or her sudden want to dwell elsewhere.

Since Trump claimed victory over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election, a number of A-listers have stop the U.S. and moved elsewhere.

Some, like Eva Longoria and Rosie O’Donnell, have publicly decried Trump’s administration and made clear that it was his insurance policies that pushed them to discover a new residence outdoors of the U.S.

Others, together with Ellen DeGeneres and Richard Gere, have been slower to hyperlink their relocations along with his administration, regardless of being outspoken critics of Trump previously.

Nonetheless, all of those stars have been fast to gush about their new residence international locations, with many opting to base themselves in Europe, the place they’ve discovered new, luxurious dwellings that afford them the identical lavish comforts as their mansions in Los Angeles or New York.

After all, there might be extra A-list emigrations to return, given the large variety of stars who’ve threatened to go away the nation ought to Trump return to the White Home—together with Sharon Stone and Cher; nonetheless, it’s understood that they’re nonetheless residing primarily within the U.S.

Eva Longoria

Lower than two weeks after the presidential election befell, Texas-born actress Longoria revealed that she had turned her again on the U.S., explaining in an interview with Marie Claire that she was “carried out” with life in “dystopian” America.

The previous “Determined Housewives” star informed the outlet that she and her husband, José Bastón, had “escaped” the nation with their son, Santiago, 6, and had been residing full time between their properties in Central America and Europe.

Though the “Determined Housewives” star says she made the choice earlier than Trump’s election win, she stated she believes the nation will grow to be a “scary place” if the President “retains his guarantees.”

Longoria conceded that she could be very “privileged” in her capability to maneuver away from the nation the place she was born and raised—and the place she launched her profitable performing profession.

“I’m privileged. I get to flee and go someplace. Most Individuals aren’t so fortunate,” she stated. “They’re going to be caught on this dystopian nation, and my nervousness and my disappointment is for them.”

The actress famous that the situations in her former residence state of California had been largely in charge for her resolution to go away the U.S. earlier than the election, insisting that whereas she doesn’t wish to “s–t” on the area, she discovered sure facets of it very tough to bear.

“I had my complete grownup life right here. However even earlier than [the COVID-19 pandemic], it was altering, the vibe was totally different. After which COVID occurred, and it pushed it over the sting,” she went on. “Whether or not it’s the homelessness or the taxes, not that I wish to s–t on California—it simply seems like this chapter in my life is finished now.”

Longoria’s official exodus from the U.S. seems to have begun in earnest in 2023, when she put her sprawling Beverly Hills mansion available on the market for $22.88 million—later slashing the worth to $18.98 million in Might 2024.

The itemizing for the house was eliminated in August of that very same 12 months; nonetheless, that didn’t cease Longoria and her household from leaving the dwelling behind in favor of residing between her properties in Mexico and Madrid.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

Among the many first to have fled the U.S. had been DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, who swapped their mansion in Montecito, CA, for an $18 million farmhouse within the British countryside, the place they’re understood to have been residing for the reason that finish of 2024.

When information of their transfer was made public simply weeks after the election in November 2024, TMZ reported that, whereas the couple had bought their U.Okay. residence in June, months earlier than Trump’s win, their resolution to “get the hell out” of America was cemented by his victory.

DeGeneres was an outspoken supporter of Harris through the 2024 presidential election, publicly endorsing her in a publish shared on Instagram again in August.

Quickly after, it was revealed that the couple had bought a historic farmhouse within the Cotswolds, a celebrity-loved locale that’s about two hours outdoors of London.

And if there had been any doubt about their want to make the U.Okay. their everlasting residence, DeGeneres and de Rossi—who’ve made a profitable profession out of actual property funding—rapidly started promoting off their final remaining properties within the U.S., one in all which was lately offered for $5.2 million, whereas one other stays available on the market for $29.99 million.

Nonetheless, their transfer has not been with out its difficulties.

Based on one report from London-based newspaper the Daily Mail, DeGeneres rapidly discovered herself “in peril of getting on the unsuitable aspect” of a high-profile member of her new neighborhood after she “dedicated a ‘technical breach’” through the construct of a single-story extension at her new abode in what the outlet described as a “planning conflict.”

DeGeneres and de Rossi are reported to have acquired a number of objections from their neighbors, who’ve spoken out in opposition to their extension plan.

Regardless of the protests, a spokesperson for West Oxfordshire Direct Council insisted that the Roman stays sit over 200 yards from DeGeneres and de Rossi’s property and that the work was “accomplished to a excessive normal.”

Richard Gere

Hollywood legend and outspoken Trump critic Gere made his plans to move away from the U.S. months earlier than the election, telling Self-importance Truthful Spain in April 2024 that he and his spouse, Alejandra, had been relocating to her residence nation of Spain in order that she could possibly be nearer to her household.

“It’s a lovely place, the meals is extraordinary and the folks exude sensitivity and generosity, in addition to a robust will to chuckle and revel in,” he informed the outlet. “I’m wanting ahead to going there.

“For Alejandra, it is going to be great to be nearer to her household, her lifelong associates and her tradition. She was very beneficiant in giving me six years residing in my world, so it’s only truthful that I give her not less than one other six residing in hers.

“I really like Spain and the flexibility of the Spanish folks to dwell transmitting pleasure and happiness.”

Quickly after, the “Fairly Lady” star offered his Connecticut mansion for $10.75 million in an off-market deal, simply two years after buying the expansive pad from crooner Paul Simon and his spouse, Edie Brickell.

Gere and his partner ultimately relocated to their new residence in Madrid with their youngsters, Albert, 11, Alexander, 5, and James, 4, shortly earlier than Christmas, later telling Elle España that they had been “happier than ever” with their new lives within the European nation.

“The reality is that you’re seeing us in our momentum. We’re happier than ever,” he stated throughout an interview with the outlet. “[Alejandra is happy] as a result of she is at residence and I [am happy] as a result of, if she is completely happy, I’m completely happy.”

Whereas the actor didn’t level to politics as the explanation for his transfer, he did model the U.S. a “darkish place” whereas accepting an award from fellow Hollywood star Antonio Banderas in February, earlier than occurring to slam President Trump as a “bully and a thug.”

“We’re all a part of a universe of overlapping ache and disappointment and pleasure. … I see this world that we’re in now forgetting that,” he stated. “This very silly tribalism is beginning to take us over, the place we predict that we’re all separate from one another.

“And we’ve got sadly elected officers that don’t encourage us in the best way that we wish to be impressed. I’m coming from a spot now … we’re in a really darkish place in America the place we’ve got a bully and a thug who’s the president of the USA.

“Nevertheless it’s not simply within the U.S., it’s in all places.”

Courtney Love

Kurt Cobain’s widow introduced her resolution to completely ditch her residence nation in favor of relocating to the U.K. throughout an look in London this month, telling spectators at a chat on the Royal Geographical Society that she is planning to use for British citizenship, whereas branding President Trump’s plans for the U.S. “horrifying.”

“It’s so nice to dwell right here,” she stated of her transfer to the U.Okay., based on the Daily Mail. “I’m lastly getting my British citizenship in six months. I get to be a citizen. I’m making use of, man! Can’t do away with me!”

The singer, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, 78, for years, initially moved to the U.Okay. from her residence in Los Angeles again in 2019—however says she now plans to make London her everlasting residence.

The singer-songwriter beforehand gushed about her love of the British metropolis, telling the Evening Standard in 2017, “I do know I’m going to finish up there. I do know what neighborhood I’m going to finish up in, and I do know that I wish to be on the Thames.

“I subscribe to this journal referred to as Nation Life, which is simply real-estate porn and fox looking. It’s wonderful.”

Love rose to stardom because the lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Gap, which she shaped in 1989. She was the chief of the group till they separated in 2002, earlier than later reuniting from 2010 to 2013.

She made headlines when she tied the knot with Cobain in 1992, welcoming a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, now 32, that very same 12 months.

Frances is married to skateboarder Tony Hawk’s son, Riley, with whom she is known to be residing within the L.A. space.

Rosie O’Donnell

O’Donnell introduced in March that she had quietly left the U.S. together with her youngest adopted baby, Dakota “Clay” O’Donnell, 12, revealing in a video posted on her TikTok account that they’d settled down in a new home in Ireland.

The “Harriet the Spy” actress, who has lengthy been an outspoken critic of Trump, confessed that she stop the U.S. on Jan. 15, including that she is within the strategy of making use of for Irish citizenship.

“I’m right here in Eire, and it’s lovely and heat—not bodily, it’s really fairly chilly,” she stated. “I moved right here on Jan. 15 [and] it’s been fairly great, I’ve to say. The individuals are so loving and so type, so welcoming. And I’m very grateful.”

The comic went on to clarify that she will apply for citizenship in her new chosen homeland as a result of she has Irish grandparents. Nonetheless, she conceded that she by no means thought she would find yourself leaving the U.S., the place she had most lately been residing in Los Angeles.

“I used to be by no means somebody who thought I’d transfer to a different nation, [but] that’s what I made a decision can be finest for myself and my 12-year-old baby. And right here we’re,” she went on.

Though O’Donnell stated she has relished in taking in all the great facets of Eire, she confessed that she has usually discovered herself lacking components of the U.S., particularly her 4 different adopted youngsters: Parker, 29, Chelsea, 27, Blake, 25, and Vivienne, 22.

O’Donnell additionally stated she would take into account returning to the States after Trump leaves workplace and the nation is “secure” once more. She didn’t point out the president by identify, as an alternative referring solely to what’s “occurring politically” within the nation.

“And when it’s secure for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that’s once we will take into account coming again,” she stated. “It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s occurring politically and arduous for me personally as effectively. The non-public is political, as everyone knows,” she stated.

On the finish of the nine-minute video, O’Donnell apologized to her followers who had been involved about her and inspired folks to make use of their voice to “rise up.”

“Sorry for these of you who had been anxious and who missed me. I simply felt like we would have liked to care for ourselves and make some arduous choices and comply with by means of,” she continued.

Gabriel Macht

Meghan Markle’s former “Fits” co-star Macht revealed in January that he had left the U.S. along with his spouse, Australian-American actress Jacinda Barrett, and their two youngsters—however apparently refused to reveal where they are planning to settle down.

Macht, 53, who starred within the hit authorized drama as Harvey Specter for 9 seasons, opened up about his mysterious transfer in a brand new interview with People magazine, explaining that the relocation had really been years within the making.

The couple had needed to take their youngsters out of college and start homeschooling them in 2020, he informed the journal. Nonetheless, their plans had been scuppered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the time, Macht’s run on “Fits” had simply ended, and he had determined to take a break from performing to concentrate on household.

“Proper earlier than COVID, we needed to take the youngsters out of college and homeschool them,” he shared. “However then we received caught, and so we had been in Manhattan. That simply wasn’t doing it for us.”

4 years later, the couple—who wed in 2004 and share two youngsters, Satine, 17, and Luca, 10—seized their likelihood, packing up their lives and leaving New York Metropolis behind to see extra of the world.

“We determined to discover the world, so we left. I’m based mostly someplace in Europe, however I don’t inform anyone the place I dwell as a result of I prefer to preserve that below wraps,” he stated. “I received out of city, and we’re exploring the world.”

The actor didn’t cite any political allegiances whereas discussing the transfer; nonetheless, he has beforehand spoken out in opposition to Trump through the 2016 election, voicing his help of Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, in a post shared on his X account.

Macht was born in The Bronx, NY, earlier than his household relocated to Los Angeles when he was 5. His maternal grandmother was born in Russia, whereas his maternal grandfather was a Ukrainian immigrant who moved to the U.S.

“I grew up in L.A. and I lived in New York for a lot of, a few years,” he informed Individuals. “Half of my life on the East Coast, half of my life on the West Coast.”

In the meantime, Barrett was born in Brisbane, Australia, and spent a number of years residing within the U.Okay. and Europe, earlier than transferring to the U.S. to pursue her on-screen profession.

Macht reassured “Fits” followers that he would reprise his function in “Fits L.A.,” the upcoming spinoff of the hit present, regardless of confessing that he had “little or no curiosity in coming again to work as an actor.”