Former reality TV personality Spencer Pratt is not on the ballot for Los Angeles mayor, but he still drew Election Day attention after explaining why he stayed at the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air while campaigning. Pratt said the decision came after losing his Pacific Palisades home in a devastating wildfire and facing what he described as serious security threats.
During the campaign, Pratt stayed at the upscale Hotel Bel-Air, where rooms reportedly cost more than $1,000 per night and the property’s lavish Swan Lake Suite can reach $8,090. The revelation emerged in a TMZ report just days after Pratt posted a campaign video showing his wife, Heidi Montag, and their family exploring an Airstream trailer placed on the burned lot where their Palisades house once stood.
“This is where I live,” Pratt said in the video.
In a lengthy post on X Tuesday, Pratt offered an explanation for choosing the exclusive Bel-Air hotel instead of living at the property.
He maintained that the Airstream was a genuine residence rather than a campaign prop. Pratt also detailed the money and construction work he said went into making the trailer functional on the fire-damaged lot.
“I got a sump pump and permanent plumbing connecting it to the sewer, and was still waiting on LADWP to connect us to the grid,” he wrote.
Pratt said the campaign period also brought repeated death threats, prompting him to hire round-the-clock protection. “People were breaking into my lot in the Palisades and leaving notes on the airstream with white powder in them,” he alleged.
He attributed the alleged threats and repeated intrusions to his political identity as a Republican.
Pratt claimed he hired SWAT officers as part of his security arrangements and said a “lunatic” once charged at his son while the boy was boogie-boarding in the ocean.
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“So, I had to hire a second security detail for my family while I was away campaigning. I don’t know if you’ve ever had to hire 4-5 armed security professionals with blacked out SUVs, but…it’s not cheap,” Pratt wrote.
According to Pratt, the burned-out Palisades property had become a “security nightmare.” He said the Hotel Bel-Air offered stronger protection than other lodging options because it is enclosed by walls and has a single controlled entrance.
“The Hotel Bel Air is surrounded with a fortress wall, with a single point of ingress, a fatal funnel that takes you over a moat, just to enter the property,” the former candidate explained.
Pratt also argued that staying elsewhere would have required booking three additional rooms for security personnel, adding approximately $3,000 to his nightly expenses.
He concluded his post by criticizing what he characterized as violence from the political left. Pratt recalled encountering mayoral candidate Raman in an elevator and said he noticed she did not appear to have a security detail.
“It was at that moment I realized the bubble the left lives in. We have a communist violence problem in America,” Pratt wrote. “Even they know, deep down, they never have to worry about violence because the violence only ever goes one way, and it comes from their team.”
Although Pratt did not advance beyond the primary, the former reality star has remained outspoken about politics and continues to weigh in on the Los Angeles mayoral race.
In a widely shared concession video posted months earlier, Pratt claimed he possessed damaging information that could force one of the two Democratic candidates to resign. He said he would release the alleged evidence after voters “pick their demon.”
