{"id":143482,"date":"2026-01-21T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143482\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:27:06","slug":"austin-beutners-daughter-dies-at-22-l-a-mayoral-candidate-seeks-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143482\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Beutner\u2019s daughter dies at 22; L.A. mayoral candidate seeks privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The daughter of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Austin Beutner died earlier this month, and authorities have not yet released the cause.<\/p>\n

Emily Beutner, 22, died at a hospital on Jan. 6, according to information<\/a> posted on the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family has experienced the unimaginable loss of our beloved daughter. We ask for privacy and your prayers at this time,\u201d Beutner said Wednesday in a statement to The Times.<\/p>\n

Emily Beutner was a student at Loyola Marymount University and was the youngest, and only daughter, of Beutner\u2019s four children.<\/p>\n

Beutner, a former Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent, is the best known of the challengers seeking to unseat Mayor Karen Bass in the June 2 election. In recent weeks, he has sharply criticized the incumbent\u2019s handling of last year\u2019s Palisades fire, which destroyed thousands of homes and left 12 people dead.<\/p>\n

Beutner spokesperson Jeff Millman declined to say how the death would affect Beutner\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

Beutner\u2019s last public event as a candidate was on Jan. 5, a day before his daughter died, when he held a news conference in Pacific Palisades. During that event, he called on Bass to form a citizens commission to examine what went wrong before, during and after the disaster.<\/p>\n

The Palisades fire destroyed the Pacific Palisades home of Beutner\u2019s mother-in-law. The blaze also seriously damaged Beutner\u2019s own home, forcing him to live elsewhere for the past year.<\/p>\n

In recent days, Beutner\u2019s campaign has continued to post on social media, weighing in<\/a> on real estate developer Rick Caruso\u2019s decision not to run for mayor or governor. <\/p>\n

Beutner belongs to a larger field of candidates, many of them unknown, seeking to unseat Bass after a single four-year term. Among them are reality TV star Spencer Pratt, who lost his home in the Palisades fire, and Rae Huang, a community organizer and housing advocate.<\/p>\n

During his career, Beutner did a stint as former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa\u2019s \u201cjobs czar.\u201d He also spent roughly a year as publisher and chief executive of The Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The daughter of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Austin Beutner died earlier this month, and authorities have not yet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3705,3813,9342,217,71940,21606,1073,7217,48,52,51,7036,47,50,49,4415,534,1839,3293,1791,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-143482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-campaign","9":"tag-cause","10":"tag-daughter","11":"tag-day","12":"tag-emily-beutner","13":"tag-handling","14":"tag-home","15":"tag-jan","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-la-headlines","18":"tag-la-news","19":"tag-last-year","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","22":"tag-los-angeles-news","23":"tag-mayor","24":"tag-pacific-palisades","25":"tag-palisades-fire","26":"tag-thousand","27":"tag-times","28":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}