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17-03-2025
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18 Celebs Who Hightailed It Out Of The US And Moved Abroad (And Why)
Plenty of people dream of moving to the US, but plenty of people who live here also dream of leaving it. Here are 18 celebs who moved out of the US and why: O'Donnell relocated to Ireland. In a 2025 TikTok video, she said, "I'm here in Ireland, and it's beautiful and warm — not physically, it's actually quite cold. Moved here on January 15th, and it's been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming, and I'm very grateful. I'm in the process of getting my Irish citizenship, as I have Irish grandparents, and that's what's going on...I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that's what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child. And here we are..." "You know, I'm happy. Clay is happy. I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home, and I'm trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when, you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back. It's been heartbreaking to see what's happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know," she said. 2025, Richard Gere and his family moved to Spain, which is where his wife, Alejandra Gere, is from. He told Elle España, "The truth is, you're seeing us in our moment. We're happier than ever. She's happy because she's at home, and I'm happy because if she's happy, I'm happy." her marriage to Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner lived in LA and Miami, but she was homesick for the UK. After their divorce, she returned to London. She told Harper's Bazaar UK, "The gun violence, Roe v. Wade being overturned... Everything just kind of piled on. After the Uvalde [school] shooting, I knew it was time to get the fuck out of there. I'm so happy to be back. I never feel like myself when I'm not in London." 2024, People reported that Ellen DeGeneres fell in love with a house in the Cotswolds in the UK and moved there with her wife, Portia de Rossi. Per sources that spoke to The Wrap and TMZ, the couple reportedly moved abroad following the results of the 2024 presidential election. 2024, Eva Longoria told Marie Claire that she and her family have been splitting their time between Spain [where she often works] and Mexico [where her husband, José Bastón, is from] for the last few years. She said, "I had my whole adult life here. But even before [the pandemic], it was changing. The vibe was different. And then COVID happened, and it pushed it over the edge. Whether it's the homelessness or the taxes, not that I want to shit on California — it just feels like this chapter in my life is done now...I'm privileged. I get to escape and go somewhere. Most Americans aren't so lucky. They're going to be stuck in this dystopian country, and my anxiety and sadness is for them." Her comments led to online speculation that she'd moved out of the US because of the 2024 election. So, to set the record straight, Eva called into her friend Ana Navarro's podcast The View: Behind the Table. She asked Ana, "Will you please let them know I didn't move out of Spain, I mean the United States, because of Trump?" Then, Eva added, "I've been in Europe working for almost three years. By the way, the article says that. People just grabbed some clickbait stuff to be divisive, which makes me so sad, you know. Everything you say is just meant to be divisive when we can't be that way right now...I didn't leave because of the political environment. I left because my work took me there." 2025, Gabriel Macht revealed that he and his family left the US sometime after Suits ended a few years prior. He told People, "I don't tell anybody where I live because I like to keep that under wraps. I got out of town, and we're exploring the world." He later told E! News, "I want to see how the world looks in different people's eyes. I want to see different perspectives. I want to learn from others. I want to see history and culture and character in different places in the world. I feel like, why not? If you have the opportunity, it's a great way to raise kids." He also said he enjoys the "anonymity" and "slower pace" in his new locale, adding, "I love being able to take nice walks. It helps to wear a hat." 2025, actor Shaun Majumder left LA and moved back to Canada with his family. Rather than return home to Newfoundland, they settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He told CBC, "Have you been watching the news? Have you seen what's going on? I ran out of a burning building with my youngsters under my arm and my wife on my back. I'm like, get me out of here, this is crazy! You know, we've been kind of, like, mulling over a big change over the last six to eight months, to be honest. Having two young kids, living in Los Angeles, is a really different experience than moving down there as a super enthusiastic whippersnapper actor. But, you know, during COVID, we had two children, and that changed our lives forever. We actually went back to Newfoundland; it's kind of where we hunkered down. It just feels like the perfect storm." He also said, "We also knew that the tides were turning on the political landscape in America. We knew an election was coming up, and I said to my wife, 'Shelby, if Trump wins, I don't know. I have a feeling that that's going to be the kicker to get me to go. I think I need to go.' We went through the election. We went to our family's place in Florida for Christmas. We came back to LA. The city was on fire. Trump was now president, whether you like him or not. The country was kind of becoming more chaotic. And we were just like, oh, yeah, if the universe wasn't screaming at us right now to get out of here, then this is definitely a kicker. And I do most of my work in Canada, so it just makes sense for us to be up here." her relationship with soccer player Adil Rami, Pamela Anderson moved to Provence, France because he played for Marseille. At the time, she told Net-A-Porter, "I fell in love with Saint-Tropez 20 years ago, when I did a photoshoot for Playboy. It was always my plan to come and live here when the kids were grown up. Everyone is so beautiful here. Maybe it's the light, very healthy and golden." Then, in 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Pamela returned home to Vancouver Island, British Columbia with her two adult sons, purchased and renovated her grandma's motel, and began working on her grandpa's garden. She told Better Homes & Gardens, "A few years back, I kind of gave up at some point and needed a change. I thought, 'Well, I guess that's just what people think of me.' I was not in a good space when I moved back to Canada. I don't know what happened over the last few decades, but I feel now so far removed from the image of who I was. I felt very sad and lonely." "I didn't feel just misunderstood; I felt like I had really screwed up, that my whole life was a bundle of mistakes. I was hard on myself, and I thought I put my family through a lot and put my kids through so much. I came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden. And when I started building the garden, it was really like a metaphor of putting my life back together. I began planting seeds, and the smallest things became really profound," she said. living in Hollywood for 20 years, comedian Tom Green moved home to Ontario, Canada in 2021. He lives on a 150-acre farm. He told the New York Times, "I'm not really a Hollywood guy. I started to feel like I wasn't being true to my authentic self." Jackson has lived in London, UK since about 2016. According to the Guardian, she stayed in the city after her 2017 divorce from billionaire Wissam Al Mana, who is from Qatar but lives in London, because they co-parent their son, Eissa. She told the outlet, "The most important thing I've done, the biggest thing I've done, is become a mother, and it's had a beautiful impact on my life. I wanted to have three children but thought, 'I should stop there; that's probably all I can handle.' Because you have to give all of yourself, you have to spread the love, and I wouldn't want any of them to feel left out if I had three. Obviously, you have to work, but you don't come first anymore. Your life completely changes. And I wouldn't trade it for anything." Collins and her husband, Charlie McDowell, relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2023. The couple honeymooned in Denmark in 2021, and they co-own the media production and real estate company Case Study Copenhagen. Lily told Elle Denmark, "Life here is just so wonderful and so calm and bright. And what I love so much is that there's so much color and, yet, it's so calm. I love being able to bike everywhere. And it feels like a big city but also very intimate, and everyone is so nice." Lohan and her family live in Dubai. She relocated to the UAE in 2014. According to Cosmopolitan, she moved to Dubai because paparazzi are illegal. In 2024, she told Flaunt, "It's still a city. So it's pretty similar. I mean, I do anything that anyone else does in their daily life. I'm up with my son in the mornings, I do breakfast with him, go to my pilates, come home for lunch, and go to the park, the same things that any normal mom would do in their daily life. Or you would do in LA. I think the only difference is the time zone shift. There's a big disconnect between when work starts for me and other places. I can do my work calls with New York at like three or four, around this time, and then LA picks up later." 1995, Tina Turner moved to Switzerland with Erwin Bach, her then-boyfriend (and later husband). In 1997, she told CNN, "I have left America because my success was in another country, and my boyfriend was in another country." She also said she was "as big as Madonna" in Europe. She said, "I went to England for a couple of years, and then I met a man, and I lived three years with him in his country, in Germany. Then I bought a house, in the meantime, in the south of France, and I started to rebuild that, so I'm in and out of there. That's not a place I can go often. [Home is] Zurich. Because my boyfriend was moved there to run the company, and I always wanted to go to Switzerland, and I was very happy." In 2013, Tina married Erwin and became a Swiss citizen. a 2024 Instagram video, Britney Spears shared that she moved to Mexico because of the "extremely mean and cruel" treatment she'd faced from paparazzi. She said, "It really kind of hurts my feelings that the paparazzi make my face look like I'm wearing, like, a white Jason mask. It doesn't even look like me. They've always been incredibly cruel to me, the paparazzi and pictures and the way they've illustrated me to be in some of it." 2021, George Clooney reportedly moved to Brignoles, Provence, France with his wife, Amal Clooney, and their children. He and his wife, Amal Clooney, reportedly want to have a "peaceful life" and raise their children primarily in France. 2023, Christina Milian and her family moved to France, where her husband, singer M. Pokora, is from. She told the Jennifer Hudson Show, "My husband is French, and we've been together for over seven or eight years, and for, like, the last three or four years, we were commuting back and forth every six months. And then we decided to commit to it last year because our kids were going to go to school." Hartnett and his wife, Tamsin Egerton, lived between the US and the UK (her home country) for years but spent lockdown in the UK. Then, when they were expecting their third child, they decided to stay in Hampshire for good. In 2024, he told the Guardian that in NYC or LA, "people only want to talk about your career," but he prefers how, in Hampshire, "nobody cares." He also said that, because he's on a marriage visa, he's only allowed to leave the UK for work for 180 days out of the year, giving him time to make about one movie. He's fine with that and enjoys getting to spend more time with his kids while they're growing up. finally, Michael Sheen moved from LA back home to Port Talbot, Wales in 2018. He first began considering relocation seven years prior when he played Jesus in a local three-day-long theatrical performance of the Passion alongside residents who were dealing with the increasing cost of living and job losses. He told the Sunday Times, "Once you become aware of difficulties in the area you come from, you don't have to do anything. You can live somewhere else, visit family at Christmas, and turn a blind eye to injustice. It doesn't make you a bad person, but I'd seen something I couldn't unsee. I had to apply myself, and I might not have the impact I'd like, but the one thing that I can say is that I'm doing stuff. I know I am — I'm paying for it!"
Buzz Feed
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
18 Celebs Who Hightailed It Out Of The US And Moved Abroad (And Why)
Plenty of people dream of moving to the US, but plenty of people who live here also dream of leaving it. Here are 18 celebs who moved out of the US and why: 1. Rosie O'Donnell relocated to Ireland. In a 2025 TikTok video, she said, "I'm here in Ireland, and it's beautiful and warm — not physically, it's actually quite cold. Moved here on January 15th, and it's been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming, and I'm very grateful. I'm in the process of getting my Irish citizenship, as I have Irish grandparents, and that's what's going on...I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that's what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child. And here we are..." "You know, I'm happy. Clay is happy. I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home, and I'm trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when, you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back. It's been heartbreaking to see what's happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know," she said. 2. In 2025, Richard Gere and his family moved to Spain, which is where his wife, Alejandra Gere, is from. He told Elle España, "The truth is, you're seeing us in our moment. We're happier than ever. She's happy because she's at home, and I'm happy because if she's happy, I'm happy." 3. During her marriage to Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner lived in LA and Miami, but she was homesick for the UK. After their divorce, she returned to London. She told Harper's Bazaar UK, "The gun violence, Roe v. Wade being overturned... Everything just kind of piled on. After the Uvalde [school] shooting, I knew it was time to get the fuck out of there. I'm so happy to be back. I never feel like myself when I'm not in London." 4. In 2024, People reported that Ellen DeGeneres fell in love with a house in the Cotswolds in the UK and moved there with her wife, Portia de Rossi. Per sources that spoke to The Wrap and TMZ, the couple reportedly moved abroad following the results of the 2024 presidential election. 5. In 2024, Eva Longoria told Marie Claire that she and her family have been splitting their time between Spain [where she often works] and Mexico [where her husband, José Bastón, is from] for the last few years. She said, "I had my whole adult life here. But even before [the pandemic], it was changing. The vibe was different. And then COVID happened, and it pushed it over the edge. Whether it's the homelessness or the taxes, not that I want to shit on California — it just feels like this chapter in my life is done now...I'm privileged. I get to escape and go somewhere. Most Americans aren't so lucky. They're going to be stuck in this dystopian country, and my anxiety and sadness is for them." Her comments led to online speculation that she'd moved out of the US because of the 2024 election. So, to set the record straight, Eva called into her friend Ana Navarro's podcast The View: Behind the Table. She asked Ana, "Will you please let them know I didn't move out of Spain, I mean the United States, because of Trump?" Then, Eva added, "I've been in Europe working for almost three years. By the way, the article says that. People just grabbed some clickbait stuff to be divisive, which makes me so sad, you know. Everything you say is just meant to be divisive when we can't be that way right now...I didn't leave because of the political environment. I left because my work took me there." 6. In 2025, Gabriel Macht revealed that he and his family left the US sometime after Suits ended a few years prior. He told People, "I don't tell anybody where I live because I like to keep that under wraps. I got out of town, and we're exploring the world." He later told E! News, "I want to see how the world looks in different people's eyes. I want to see different perspectives. I want to learn from others. I want to see history and culture and character in different places in the world. I feel like, why not? If you have the opportunity, it's a great way to raise kids." He also said he enjoys the "anonymity" and "slower pace" in his new locale, adding, "I love being able to take nice walks. It helps to wear a hat." 7. In 2025, actor Shaun Majumder left LA and moved back to Canada with his family. Rather than return home to Newfoundland, they settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He told CBC, "Have you been watching the news? Have you seen what's going on? I ran out of a burning building with my youngsters under my arm and my wife on my back. I'm like, get me out of here, this is crazy! You know, we've been kind of, like, mulling over a big change over the last six to eight months, to be honest. Having two young kids, living in Los Angeles, is a really different experience than moving down there as a super enthusiastic whippersnapper actor. But, you know, during COVID, we had two children, and that changed our lives forever. We actually went back to Newfoundland; it's kind of where we hunkered down. It just feels like the perfect storm." He also said, "We also knew that the tides were turning on the political landscape in America. We knew an election was coming up, and I said to my wife, 'Shelby, if Trump wins, I don't know. I have a feeling that that's going to be the kicker to get me to go. I think I need to go.' We went through the election. We went to our family's place in Florida for Christmas. We came back to LA. The city was on fire. Trump was now president, whether you like him or not. The country was kind of becoming more chaotic. And we were just like, oh, yeah, if the universe wasn't screaming at us right now to get out of here, then this is definitely a kicker. And I do most of my work in Canada, so it just makes sense for us to be up here." 8. During her relationship with soccer player Adil Rami, Pamela Anderson moved to Provence, France because he played for Marseille. At the time, she told Net-A-Porter, "I fell in love with Saint-Tropez 20 years ago, when I did a photoshoot for Playboy. It was always my plan to come and live here when the kids were grown up. Everyone is so beautiful here. Maybe it's the light, very healthy and golden." Then, in 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Pamela returned home to Vancouver Island, British Columbia with her two adult sons, purchased and renovated her grandma's motel, and began working on her grandpa's garden. She told Better Homes & Gardens, "A few years back, I kind of gave up at some point and needed a change. I thought, 'Well, I guess that's just what people think of me.' I was not in a good space when I moved back to Canada. I don't know what happened over the last few decades, but I feel now so far removed from the image of who I was. I felt very sad and lonely." "I didn't feel just misunderstood; I felt like I had really screwed up, that my whole life was a bundle of mistakes. I was hard on myself, and I thought I put my family through a lot and put my kids through so much. I came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden. And when I started building the garden, it was really like a metaphor of putting my life back together. I began planting seeds, and the smallest things became really profound," she said. 9. After living in Hollywood for 20 years, comedian Tom Green moved home to Ontario, Canada in 2021. He lives on a 150-acre farm. He told the New York Times, "I'm not really a Hollywood guy. I started to feel like I wasn't being true to my authentic self." Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images 10. Janet Jackson has lived in London, UK since about 2016. According to the Guardian, she stayed in the city after her 2017 divorce from billionaire Wissam Al Mana, who is from Qatar but lives in London, because they co-parent their son, Eissa. She told the outlet, "The most important thing I've done, the biggest thing I've done, is become a mother, and it's had a beautiful impact on my life. I wanted to have three children but thought, 'I should stop there; that's probably all I can handle.' Because you have to give all of yourself, you have to spread the love, and I wouldn't want any of them to feel left out if I had three. Obviously, you have to work, but you don't come first anymore. Your life completely changes. And I wouldn't trade it for anything." Dave Benett / Jed Cullen/for British GQ 11. Lily Collins and her husband, Charlie McDowell, relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2023. The couple honeymooned in Denmark in 2021, and they co-own the media production and real estate company Case Study Copenhagen. Jeff Spicer /Lily told Elle Denmark, "Life here is just so wonderful and so calm and bright. And what I love so much is that there's so much color and, yet, it's so calm. I love being able to bike everywhere. And it feels like a big city but also very intimate, and everyone is so nice." Dave Benett / Alan Chapman/12. Lindsay Lohan and her family live in Dubai. She relocated to the UAE in 2014. According to Cosmopolitan, she moved to Dubai because paparazzi are illegal. Amy Sussman / Getty Images In 2024, she told Flaunt, "It's still a city. So it's pretty similar. I mean, I do anything that anyone else does in their daily life. I'm up with my son in the mornings, I do breakfast with him, go to my pilates, come home for lunch, and go to the park, the same things that any normal mom would do in their daily life. Or you would do in LA. I think the only difference is the time zone shift. There's a big disconnect between when work starts for me and other places. I can do my work calls with New York at like three or four, around this time, and then LA picks up later." James Devaney / GC Images / Via Getty 13. In 1995, Tina Turner moved to Switzerland with Erwin Bach, her then-boyfriend (and later husband). In 1997, she told CNN, "I have left America because my success was in another country, and my boyfriend was in another country." Dave Benett /She also said she was "as big as Madonna" in Europe. She said, "I went to England for a couple of years, and then I met a man, and I lived three years with him in his country, in Germany. Then I bought a house, in the meantime, in the south of France, and I started to rebuild that, so I'm in and out of there. That's not a place I can go often. [Home is] Zurich. Because my boyfriend was moved there to run the company, and I always wanted to go to Switzerland, and I was very happy." Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images In 2013, Tina married Erwin and became a Swiss citizen. Dave Hogan / Getty Images 14. In a 2024 Instagram video, Britney Spears shared that she moved to Mexico because of the "extremely mean and cruel" treatment she'd faced from paparazzi. She said, "It really kind of hurts my feelings that the paparazzi make my face look like I'm wearing, like, a white Jason mask. It doesn't even look like me. They've always been incredibly cruel to me, the paparazzi and pictures and the way they've illustrated me to be in some of it." J. Merritt / Getty Images for GLAAD 15. In 2021, George Clooney reportedly moved to Brignoles, Provence, France with his wife, Amal Clooney, and their children. He and his wife, Amal Clooney, reportedly want to have a "peaceful life" and raise their children primarily in France. Gotham / GC Images / Via Getty 16. In 2023, Christina Milian and her family moved to France, where her husband, singer M. Pokora, is from. She told the Jennifer Hudson Show, "My husband is French, and we've been together for over seven or eight years, and for, like, the last three or four years, we were commuting back and forth every six months. And then we decided to commit to it last year because our kids were going to go to school." Marc Piasecki / Getty Images 17. Josh Hartnett and his wife, Tamsin Egerton, lived between the US and the UK (her home country) for years but spent lockdown in the UK. Then, when they were expecting their third child, they decided to stay in Hampshire for good. In 2024, he told the Guardian that in NYC or LA, "people only want to talk about your career," but he prefers how, in Hampshire, "nobody cares." He also said that, because he's on a marriage visa, he's only allowed to leave the UK for work for 180 days out of the year, giving him time to make about one movie. He's fine with that and enjoys getting to spend more time with his kids while they're growing up. Karwai Tang / WireImage / Via Getty 18. And finally, Michael Sheen moved from LA back home to Port Talbot, Wales in 2018. He first began considering relocation seven years prior when he played Jesus in a local three-day-long theatrical performance of the Passion alongside residents who were dealing with the increasing cost of living and job losses. Dave Benett /He told the Sunday Times, "Once you become aware of difficulties in the area you come from, you don't have to do anything. You can live somewhere else, visit family at Christmas, and turn a blind eye to injustice. It doesn't make you a bad person, but I'd seen something I couldn't unsee. I had to apply myself, and I might not have the impact I'd like, but the one thing that I can say is that I'm doing stuff. I know I am — I'm paying for it!" Eamonn M. McCormack / Getty Images
Fox News
09-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Richard Gere left America for his wife: everything to know about the Spanish beauty
Alejandra Silva believes she and Richard Gere are "soulmates." The couple began dating in 2014, and four years later, they married in a secret ceremony. Silva, 41, who has worked as a publicist, is an advocate for ending homelessness and is a patron of a foundation called Hogar Si. She is also an environmental activist. She and Gere, 75, are currently working on the Sierra a Mar project, an environment and sustainability initiative along the coast of the Mexican state of Jalisco. A Buddhist and a vegetarian, like Gere, SIlva is an animal lover and an avid horseback rider. "We are like soulmates," Silva told Elle España this year of their relationship. "We have the same values, we see the world in the same way and from the first moment we felt that we had known each other for a long time." Silva told the magazine that they are both activists at heart. "One of the things that unites us the most and what made us fall deeply in love was our activist heart," she said. "Being an activist leads you to infuse your values into the world to improve it. It's about giving a voice to people who don't have one and raising awareness. It has a very deep meaning, and we must value where to put our energy, no matter how little it may be." Silva is also a socialite whose father is the former financial vice president for pro soccer club Real Madrid. "One of the things that unites us the most and what made us fall deeply in love was our activist heart." The 41-year-old is a native of Spain. She was born in A Coruna, a port city in the northwestern part of the country. As a U.S. citizen, Silva revealed that she voted in a U.S. election for the first time last November. "Standing there, ballot in hand, I felt a deep sense of pride and connection," she wrote on Instagram. "It was more than just a choice; it was a step into something bigger, a moment of belonging and responsibility. Voting for the first time was powerful, a reminder that my voice truly matters. You truly matter!!" After she and Gere married in 2018, she lived with him in New York and Connecticut, and late last year, the couple left the U.S. for Madrid so Silva could be closer to her family. "It's time for my wife to be around her family and friends and culture," Gere told Fox News Digital last year. "And [it's] good for our kids. I think it's great to be living, not just visiting, but living in another culture." Silva, who is 34 years Gere's junior, is a mother of three and a stepmother to his 25-year-old son, Homer, from his second marriage to Carey Lowell. Gere was also married to Cindy Crawford from 1991 until 1995. The couple share Alexander and James, who were born in 2019 and 2020, and she is also mother to Albert from her first marriage, who was born in 2012. Gere said he had lived in New York most of his adult life. "New York gets in your blood. It's very hard to remove that," he told Jimmy Fallon last year. "It infects your DNA. But I love Spain too. I love Madrid." He said they would be spending Thanksgiving in Spain, and later that month, Silva shared a photo on Instagram, giving a glimpse of their home in Madrid as James and Alexander decorated their Christmas tree. She wrote, "this year finally, Christmas in Spain!" Gere told Fallon that Silva grew up in a "very big Spanish family, and her grandmother was kind of the glue that held all of that together. And the grandmother passed away. It was about a year and a half ago, two years ago. So, my wife, I can see her morphing into the new grandmother of this extended family. So, she's already planning for 35 people for Sunday lunches."
The Independent
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Suits star Gabriel Macht refuses to reveal where he lives in Europe after leaving US
Suits star Gabriel Macht has decided to keep his and his family's whereabouts private after moving to Europe. The 53-year-old — known for his portrayal of Harvey Specter in the nine-season legal drama — revealed he had left the US in a new interview. 'I am based somewhere in Europe, but I don't tell anybody where I live because I like to keep that under wraps,' he told People magazine. 'I got out of town and we're exploring the world.' Macht, shares 17-year-old daughter Satine and 10-year-old son Luca with his wife Jacinda Barrett, an Australian-American actor and former model. He explained that the idea of moving abroad first took root after the final season of Suits wrapped filming in 2019. At the time, the actor wanted to take a 'long break' from acting in order to spend more time with his family. 'Right before COVID, we wanted to take the kids out of school and homeschool them,' Macht said. 'But then we got stuck and so we were in Manhattan. That just wasn't doing it for us.' Macht said of his time in the States: 'I grew up in L.A. and I lived in New York for many, many years. Half of my life on the East Coast, half of my life on the West Coast.' He said his family needed a change: 'We decided to explore the world, so we left.' Macht is among a growing number of actors to have recently relocated outside the U.S. Last week, Richard Gere opened up about moving to Spain with his family. In an interview with Elle España, the 75-year-old said that since making the move with his wife Alejandra Silva and their children — sons Alexander, 5, and James, 4, in addition to Silva's 11-year-old son Albert from her previous marriage to Govind Friedland — they are 'happier than ever.' 'The truth is that you are seeing us in our momentum. We are happier than ever,' he told the publication. '[Alejandra], because she is at home and I because, if she is happy, I am happy.' The Pretty Woman actor first revealed he was selling his home in Connecticut back in November 2024. The home had been originally purchased in 2022 for $10.8 million. Back in April of that year, the Runaway Bride actor opened up about wanting to leave the U.S. and start a life with Silva in Spain so she could spend more time with her relatives. Silva, 41, is originally from La Coruña, Spain, though she's spent considerable time with Gere in the States since their 2018 wedding. 'For Alejandra, it will be wonderful to be closer to her family, her lifelong friends, and her culture,' Gere told Vanity Fair Spain at the time. 'She was very generous in giving me six years living in my world, so it is only fair that I give her at least another six living in hers.'
