# Spencer Pratt says $1,200 hotel ‘fortress’ was cheaper than security as death threats mounted

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/spencer-pratt-says-1200-hotel-fortress-was-cheaper-than-security-as-death-threats-mounted/
- Published: 2026-11-04T00:43:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T07:43:04+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/spencer-pratt-1200-hotel-fortress-cheaper-security-death-threats-mounted
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Pratt says hotel security was cheaper than hiring protection elsewhere.
- He says death threats led him to employ security for himself and his family.
- He lost the Los Angeles mayoral primary.

## Summary

Spencer Pratt said he stayed at the Hotel Bel-Air during his Los Angeles mayoral campaign because its armed security cost less than arranging protection elsewhere. His explanation follows scrutiny over his reported use of the luxury hotel and his campaign advert suggesting he was living in an Airstream at his home, which was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire.

Pratt said he received numerous death threats and hired full-time security, including a second detail for his family while he campaigned. He described break-ins at his lot and an incident in which a person he said was trying to find him charged at his young son; he did not give a total cost for the security or provide independently verified details of the threats. Pratt lost in the June primary.

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