Overview
- Lake lost her Malibu home and personal archives in the January Palisades wildfires, believing family pictures were gone.
- Artist Patty Scanlon bought a box of vintage images for $20 at the Pasadena City College Flea Market and recognized Lake and her son Milo as a toddler.
- Scanlon posted the find on Instagram and Facebook, Lake responded almost immediately, and the two spoke together on Instagram Live on Dec. 8.
- A postmarked envelope in the box indicated Lake had mailed the photos years ago, and Scanlon suggested they may have reached the market through an estate sale.
- Lake and Scanlon arranged to meet in Los Angeles so the pictures can be returned, with Scanlon saying she plans to paint Lake using the images as inspiration.