Overview
- Spencer Pratt, who lost his Pacific Palisades home in the 2025 fire, acknowledged in a video posted Monday that he has been living in Carpinteria and said he moved an Airstream onto his Palisades lot as his legal home.
- Los Angeles requires candidates to be residents and registered in the city by Jan. 3, and voter data show Pratt listed the Palisades as his residence with a Carpinteria mailing address while Heidi Pratt is registered in Santa Barbara County.
- After the 2025 wildfires, city guidance let displaced voters keep their L.A. residence on file and add a temporary mailing address, which helps explain the split between legal and mailing records.
- Legal views differ on whether Pratt meets the charter’s residency test, with a Loyola Marymount law professor saying the facts raise a real question and former supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky saying a challenge is unlikely to gain traction.
- The Los Angeles Times stands by its reporting after Pratt accused the paper of harassment, while right-leaning outlets cast the story as a hit job as a UCLA poll shows him near 11% with about 40% of voters undecided ahead of the June 2 top-two primary.