Richard Branson’s Necker Island Home Burns Down Hurricane Irene’s Lightning To Blame (VIDEO)

Monday Aug. 22, 2011 by Virgin Limited Edition shows British entrepreneur’s Sir Richard Branson’s luxury home, on Necker Island, in the Caribbean, in flames as a fire which ripped through the luxury home. About 20 guests, including Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet and Branson’s daughter and 90-year-old grandmother, escaped a fire uninjured.

“My office was based in the house and I have lost thousands of photographs, which is very sad,” – Richard Branson

Here is more raw footage of the fire that engulfed Richard Branson’s Necker Island home: