By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet was one of 20 people who escaped a fire that engulfed Sir Richard Branson’s luxurious private home in the Caribbean early Monday.

The eccentric billionaire said the fire broke out before dawn when lightning from a tropical storm hit the home on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.

Sir Richard was staying at a nearby property with his wife Joan and son Sam, 25, but his 90-year-old mother Eve and his 29-year-old