Last January, Spencer Pratt’s house in Pacific Palisades was destroyed by the Palisades Fire. Now, there has been what he called a “very suspicious fire” at the building in the tony Highlands area where he had his crystal company’s office.
Pratt, a former TV star who ran a high-profile campaign for mayor of Los Angeles he seemed to agree on friday, he spoke to him The California Post about the incident, which was there first reported via the Palisadian-Post. According to the company’s website, the business sells jewelry decorated with precious crystals, engravings and chains.
“I want to be careful not to compromise the arson investigation, but this incident is suspicious,” Pratt told the California Post.
“I will wait for the investigators to make the information public, but this did not happen, and the timing of this … after all the election disputes in the last two weeks, is very suspicious.”
Fire officials have not yet determined what caused the fire, and, in an interview with the Palisadian-Post, the building manager said he does not believe the fire is related to Pratt’s mayoral campaign.
A spokesman for Pratt did not immediately return calls and a text message seeking comment Saturday afternoon. Pratt suggested in his comments to the California Post that he believes the fire may have been political arson.
“This fire was not an accident, and it would not surprise me at all if this was revenge for my work against Karen Bass and Nithya Raman,” he said.
LAFD Public Service Officer Jamie Stewart told The Times in a phone interview Saturday afternoon that the department received a call at 6:09 p.m. Thursday reporting a “two-story building with light smoke.” Stewart added that “an arson was reported” and that LAFD fire crews “responded and were present” for what he said was a one-alarm fire.
According to the Palisadian-Post, on Thursday, “multiple firefighting units, including two trucks, were dispatched by the LAFD from Fire Stations 23 and 69 in the Palisades and Station 92 in Cheviot Hills to respond to the fire.”
The building’s superintendent, Oscar Chang, told a local publication that the building is being renovated while waiting for permission to work on its roof. Witnesses, he told the Palisadian-Post, “saw two boys exit the building shortly before the fire was reported.”
Chang added that he did not believe the fire was related to Pratt’s political campaign.
“One of the tenants shared with me a video of a homeless person right around the corner,” Chang told the publication, but “nobody was living in the building.”
Saturday morning, Pratt wrote on social media about Thursday’s fire, which tore through the Highlands Circle shopping center at 1515 Palisades Drive. The building is best known as the longtime home of popular Italian restaurant Casa Nostra Ristorante, which closed a week earlier on Jan. 7, 2025, the Palisades Fire and has not been rekindled.
In a statement posted on social media, he called the Los Angeles Times the El Segundo Times – a mockery of his building’s location in the coastal city near LAX Airport – and his repeated accusations that the newspaper is “weird” him. reported in April that he lived in Santa Barbara County, not LA
“The El Segundo Times was so eager to talk about where my kids sleep; they thought it was news,” wrote X, formerly known as Twitter. “Did they ever report that I burned my office during my election?”
The highest video clips of the fire posted on the Palisadian-Post’s YouTube channel showed smoke rising from the building as firefighters stood on the roof.
A February filing with the City of LA Department of Buildings and Safety proposed a “change of use from commercial to retail, 2 stories” project at the site. In September, the department issued an ordinance for violations of “ABANDONED OR LONG OPENED TO THE PUBLIC BUILDING.”
