Spencer Pratt Decries 'very Suspicious Fire' At His Crystal Company Office In Pacific Palisades

Last January, Spencer Pratt’s location successful Pacific Palisades was razed by nan raging flames of nan Palisades Fire. Now, location has been what he called a “very suspicious fire” successful a building successful nan neighborhood’s tony Highlands wherever he maintained an agency for his crystals company.

Pratt, a erstwhile reality TV prima who ran a high-profile run for Los Angeles politician that he appeared to concede connected Friday, talked to nan California Post astir nan incident, which was first reported by nan Palisadian-Post.

“I want to beryllium observant to not discuss an arson investigation, but this incident is very suspicious,” Pratt told nan California Post.

“I will hold for nan investigators to make nationalist nan details, but this was nary accident, and nan timing of this … connected nan heels of each of nan contentious predetermination tomfoolery of nan past 2 weeks, it is very suspect, indeed.”

Fire officials person not wished what sparked nan blaze, and, successful an question and reply pinch a section publication, nan building superintendent said he doesn’t judge nan occurrence is related to Pratt’s run for mayor.

A spokesperson for Pratt did not instantly respond to telephone calls and a matter connection seeking remark Saturday afternoon. Pratt suggested successful his remarks to nan California Post that he believes nan occurrence whitethorn person been a politically motivated arson.

“This occurrence was not an accident, and it would not astonishment maine successful nan slightest if this were a reprisal for my activity successful opposing Karen Bass and Nithya Raman,” he said.

LAFD Public Service Officer Jamie Stewart told The Times successful a telephone question and reply Saturday day that nan section received a telephone astatine 6:09 p.m. Thursday reporting “a two-story commercialized building pinch ray fume showing.” Stewart added that “arson was notified” and that LAFD arson unit “did respond and they were connected scene” of what he said was a one-alarm fire.

According to nan Palisadian-Post, connected Thursday, “Multiple firefighting units, including 2 ladder trucks, were dispatched by LAFD from Fire Stations 23 and 69 successful nan Palisades and Station 92 successful Cheviot Hills to respond to nan fire.”

The complex’s superintendent, Oscar Chang, told nan section publication that nan building was being remediated while waiting for a licence for activity connected its roof. Eyewitnesses, he told nan Palisadian-Post, “saw 2 guys exiting nan building soon earlier nan occurrence was reported.”

Chang added that he did not judge nan occurrence was related to Pratt’s governmental campaign.

“One of nan tenants shared a video pinch maine of a bum personification correct astir nan corner,” Chang told nan publication, but “no 1 was surviving successful nan building.”

On Saturday morning, Pratt posted connected societal media astir nan Thursday fire, which tore done nan Highlands Circle commercialized analyzable astatine 1515 Palisades Drive. The analyzable was champion known arsenic nan longtime location of nan beloved Italian eatery Casa Nostra Ristorante, which closed a week earlier nan Jan. 7, 2025, Palisades Fire and ne'er reopened.

In nan societal media posting, he referred to nan Los Angeles Times arsenic nan El Segundo Times — a derisive moniker referring to nan location of its building successful nan coastal metropolis adjacent LAX Airport — and his repeated allegation that nan newspaper “doxxed” him by reporting successful April that he was staying successful Santa Barbara County, not L.A.

“The El Segundo Times were very eager to dox wherever my children sleep; they thought that was newsworthy,” he wrote connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter. “Have they reported connected nan arsonists who group occurrence to my agency successful nan mediate of my election?”

Overhead video footage of nan occurrence posted connected nan Palisadian-Post’s YouTube transmission showed fume rising from nan building arsenic firefighters stood connected nan roof.

A filing successful February pinch nan L.A. City Department of Buildings and Safety projected activity for “change of usage from commercialized to retail, 2-story” astatine nan property. In September, nan section issued a codification enforcement usurpation for “ABANDONED OR VACANT BUILDING LEFT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.”