Spencer Pratt Says Death Threats Made a $1,200-A-Night Hotel the Cheaper Option

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By Sari Moon

Updated 3 hours ago, November 3, 2026

Spencer Pratt says death threats made the Hotel Bel-Air the cheaper option during his Los Angeles mayoral campaign: its security meant he could stay there without paying for his protection team to spend the night.

In a November 3 post on X, Pratt, 43, said he’d hired full-time security after receiving “numerous death threats.” He described the hotel as “surrounded with a fortress wall” and said his team felt comfortable leaving him inside.

Elsewhere, he claimed, he’d have needed 3 additional rooms for his security team, adding $3,000 a night. Standard luxury rooms at the Hotel Bel-Air run between $900 and $1,200 nightly.

“Paradoxically, by this calculation, I was actually saving a ton of money by staying at the secure Bel Air; even staying at a Motel 6 would’ve cost me more money, and in a campaign…money is everything,” Pratt wrote.

His April campaign ad showed an Airstream on the property where he and his wife, Heidi Montag, had lost their home in the January 2025 Palisades fire, prompting scrutiny of the hotel stay. The ad also highlighted the multimillion-dollar homes of his political rivals, Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman.

Pratt said people assumed he was misusing campaign funds and that his staff had told him to keep the security explanation private. He said the hotel controversy eventually distracted from his policy proposals.

His campaign ended after Bass and Raman won the most votes in the June primary, leaving him off the November 3 general-election ballot.

Pratt says he still faces death threats and trespassers at his property, but can no longer afford the protection he had during the campaign. He’s now promoting Patrol, a planned app for subscribing to neighborhood security services, which he says also intends to bring private firefighting operators onto the platform.

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