“The Hills” Alum Spencer Pratt Has Raised More Money in L.A. Mayoral Race Than Incumbent Karen Bass
“The Hills” Alum Spencer Pratt Has Raised More Money in L.A. Mayoral Race Than Incumbent Karen Bass
Madison E. GoldbergSat, April 25, 2026 at 2:10 AM UTC
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Spencer Pratt at the 2025 American Music Awards held at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas on May 26, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada., Karen Bass during a press conference regarding recent uptick of burglaries in the San Fernando Valley at LAPD Headquarters on Monday, April 20, 2026 in Los Angeles , CA.Credit: Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty; Ronaldo Bolaños / Los Angeles Times via Getty -
The Hills alum Spencer Pratt has now surpassed the incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in campaign funding for the Los Angeles mayoral race
Pratt has raised $539,616.85 for his mayoral campaign since January
Among Pratt's donors are fellow The Hills alum Lauren Conrad's ex Doug Reinhardt, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives producer Jeff Jenkins, and Rick Salomon, Katharine McPhee and more
The Hills alum Spencer Pratt has now surpassed the incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in campaign funding for the Los Angeles mayoral race.
Pratt, 42, has raised $539,616.85 for his mayoral campaign since January, according to campaign records reviewed by PEOPLE. Among Pratt's donors are fellow The Hills alum Lauren Conrad's ex Doug Reinhardt, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives producer Jeff Jenkins, and Rick Salomon, Katharine McPhee and more.
Bass, 72, has raised $494,734.76 for her campaign since January, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Pratt, who is running as an independent candidate, registered as a Republican in 2020, Politico previously reported. He originally registered as an independent in July 2008, and re-registered as a Republican in August 2020.
The reality TV star did not start voting consistently until 2020 after voting in his first general election in 2008, Politico reports. Pratt did hit the polls for the November 2025 Proposition 50 redistricting campaign in California, the outlet reports, citing voter records.
Spencer Pratt at Lucky's Montecito 25th Anniversary held at Lucky's Montecito on March 08, 2026 in Montecito, California.Credit: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty
In a February interview with NBC, Pratt explained his motivations for running for mayor.
Pratt claimed that Bass had an action report surrounding the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires "altered" to "take away her negligence from it."
Bass has denied Pratt's allegations, with a statement from her office saying, "There is absolutely no reason why she would request those details be altered or erased when she herself has been critical of the response to the fire - full stop."
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"So when you see all these things, it becomes no minute, choice that if somebody's not stepping up, I just felt I had no choice," Pratt said of his decision to enter the race.
Spencer Pratt on 'The Hills'Credit: MTV
"And again, I don't want to be running for mayor," he continued. "I want to be back in my house feeding hummingbirds, taking my kids to the local school, and having my life. So I just have no choice but to do this."
In February, Pratt's younger sister Stephanie, 39, spoke out against his mayoral bid in a series of posts on X. In the posts shared on Feb. 14, she claimed that her brother — with whom she has long had a strained relationship — is only running in an attempt to "stay famous."
Stephanie also made several allegations against him while giving “a history of Spencer,” claiming that her older brother “beat” her, got her “hooked” on drugs during her teen years and was once in a cult. She also made reference to Spencer and Lauren Conrad's infamous feud on The Hills.
Spencer Pratt campaign signCredit: Topher Gauk-Roger
“Spencer has done great work for the palisades,” Stephanie wrote on X. (Spencer and his wife, Heidi Montag, filed a lawsuit against the city of L.A. after their home was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire.)
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“But LA does not need another unqualified and inexperienced mayor,” she continued of The Hills alum. “A vote for him is a vote for stupidity.”
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