{"id":329189,"date":"2026-05-23T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:02:22","slug":"spencer-pratts-campaign-spent-more-than-15000-at-pricey-hotel-bel-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329189\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt&#8217;s campaign spent more than $15,000 at pricey Hotel Bel-Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spencer Pratt\u2019s campaign for Los Angeles mayor has paid the Hotel Bel-Air more than $15,000 since April 7, according to Pratt\u2019s latest campaign finance filings.<\/p>\n<p>The former reality TV star\u2019s campaign made 10 separate payments to the L.A. hotel over the period, including nearly $14,900 earmarked for \u201cCandidate Travel, Lodging and Meals\u201d and an additional approximately $600 for \u201cFundraising Events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His campaign finance filing also reported $1,800 spent on Komos Tequila for an event.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment. The candidate referred to this article on X on Friday morning, along with an image appearing to show a quote for nearly $55,000 to install a fence on his property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed cheaper and more secure than putting the fence around my dirt lot where Karen Bass let my house burn down,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt\u2019s home burned in the January 2025 Palisades fire, leading Pratt to move to his parents\u2019 beach home in Carpinteria in Santa Barbara County. After The Times asked about <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-10\/spencer-pratts-time-in-santa-barbara-county-likely-wont-affect-his-bid-for-la-mayor-analysts-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where he was living,<\/a> Pratt posted a video saying he had placed an Airstream trailer on his burned-out lot in the Palisades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where I live,\u201d Pratt said, standing in front of the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ later reported that Pratt was living at the Hotel Bel-Air. Asked why he said he lived at the trailer even though he was staying at the hotel, Pratt told TMZ that his security team wouldn\u2019t allow him to live in the trailer because of threats he\u2019d received. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m at a hotel because these psychopaths are messaging me every day they\u2019re going to kill me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt is challenging Mayor Karen Bass  in the city\u2019s June 2 mayoral primary. Polls show Bass leading the race, with Pratt and City Councilmember Nithya Raman locked in a close race for second place.<\/p>\n<p>If no candidate wins a majority in the primary, the top two vote-getters will face off in the Nov. 3 general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt\u2019s campaign for Los Angeles mayor has paid the Hotel Bel-Air more than $15,000 since April 7,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[136713,3705,136716,8142,64168,1073,48,52,51,136717,47,50,49,63,136715,1839,8111,136714,2211,43125,24552],"class_list":["post-329189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-airstream-trailer","tag-campaign","tag-candidate-travel","tag-comment","tag-fundraising-event","tag-home","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-late-campaign-finance-filing","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mayoral-primary","tag-palisades-fire","tag-poll","tag-pricey-hotel-bel-air","tag-race","tag-spencer-pratt","tag-tmz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329189","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=329189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}