Last January, Spencer Pratt\u2019s house in Pacific Palisades was razed by the raging flames of the Palisades Fire. Now, there has been what he called a \u201cvery suspicious fire\u201d in a building in the neighborhood\u2019s tony Highlands where he maintained an office for his crystals company.<\/p>\n
Pratt, a former reality TV star who ran a high-profile campaign for Los Angeles mayor that he appeared to concede<\/a> on Friday, talked to<\/a> the California Post about the incident, which was first reported<\/a> by the Palisadian-Post. According to the company\u2019s website<\/a>, the business sells precious and semi-precious crystal pendants, carvings and chains.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be careful to not compromise an arson investigation, but this incident is very suspicious,\u201d Pratt told the California Post.<\/p>\n \u201cI will wait for the investigators to make public the details, but this was no accident, and the timing of this \u2026 on the heels of all of the contentious election tomfoolery of the last two weeks, it is very suspect, indeed.\u201d<\/p>\n Fire officials have not determined what sparked the blaze, and, in an interview with the Palisadian-Post, the building superintendent said he doesn\u2019t believe the fire is related to Pratt\u2019s campaign for mayor.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Pratt did not immediately respond to phone calls and a text message seeking comment Saturday afternoon. Pratt suggested in his remarks to the California Post that he believes the fire may have been a politically motivated arson.<\/p>\n \u201cThis fire was not an accident, and it would not surprise me in the least if this were a reprisal for my work in opposing Karen Bass and Nithya Raman,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n LAFD Public Service Officer Jamie Stewart told The Times in a phone interview Saturday afternoon that the department received a call at 6:09 p.m. Thursday reporting \u201ca two-story commercial building with light smoke showing.\u201d Stewart added that \u201carson was notified\u201d and that LAFD arson personnel \u201cdid respond and they were on scene\u201d of what he said was a one-alarm fire.<\/p>\n According to the Palisadian-Post, on Thursday, \u201cMultiple firefighting units, including two ladder trucks, were dispatched by LAFD from Fire Stations 23 and 69 in the Palisades and Station 92 in Cheviot Hills to respond to the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n The complex\u2019s superintendent, Oscar Chang, told the local publication that the building was being remediated while waiting for a permit for work on its roof. Eyewitnesses, he told the Palisadian-Post, \u201csaw two guys exiting the building shortly before the fire was reported.\u201d <\/p>\n Chang added that he did not believe the fire was related to Pratt\u2019s political campaign.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the tenants shared a video with me of a homeless person right around the corner,\u201d Chang told the publication, but \u201cno one was living in the building.\u201d<\/p>\n On Saturday morning, Pratt posted on social media<\/a> about the Thursday fire, which tore through the Highlands Circle commercial complex at 1515 Palisades Drive. The complex was best known as the longtime home of the beloved Italian eatery Casa Nostra Ristorante, which closed a week before the Jan. 7, 2025, Palisades Fire and never reopened. <\/p>\n In the social media posting, he referred to the Los Angeles Times as the El Segundo Times \u2014 a derisive moniker referring to the location of its building in the coastal city near LAX Airport \u2014 and his repeated allegation that the newspaper \u201cdoxxed\u201d him by reporting in April<\/a> that he was staying in Santa Barbara County, not L.A.<\/p>\n \u201cThe El Segundo Times were very eager to dox where my children sleep; they thought that was newsworthy,\u201d he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. \u201cHave they reported on the arsonists who set fire to my office in the middle of my election?\u201d<\/p>\n