{"id":1938699,"date":"2026-05-16T09:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1938699"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:35:26","slug":"spencer-pratt-trades-insults-with-chelsea-handler-over-his-l-a-mayoral-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1938699","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt Trades Insults With Chelsea Handler Over His L.A. Mayoral Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/3b\/16by9\/2026\/05\/16\/3bb70473f32d4f17a760004b739b17c8_xl.png&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"article article--permalink \">\n<header class=\"article__header\">\n<h1 class=\"article__header--headline-title\">Spencer Pratt Trades Insults With Chelsea Handler Over His L.A. Mayoral Run<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\"><span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">Spencer Pratt<\/span><span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Chelsea Handler Partied With Epstein &#8230;<\/span><span class=\"article__header--hf3 text-none h2\">Comedian Calls Spence Illegitimate Candidate<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"social-media-container\" role=\"region\">\n<ul class=\"social social--sm\">\n<li class=\"social-item\">\n<li class=\"social-item\">\n<li class=\"social-item\"><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tmz.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"js-track-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/static.tmz.com\/tmz-web\/img\/article\/google-preferred-source.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/pages\/about\/\">TMZ Staff<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"date-wrapper\">\n                                                                        Published <time class=\"published-datetime\" datetime=\"2026-05-16T02:35:26-07:00\"><br \/>\n                              May 16, 2026<br \/>\n                            2:35 AM PDT<\/time><span class=\"divider\">|<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                Updated <time class=\"updated-datetime\" datetime=\"2026-05-16T07:15:19-07:00\"><br \/>\n                                  May 16, 2026<br \/>\n                                7:15 AM PDT<\/time><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article__blocks clearfix\">\n<section id=\"cb-6b6170de4d1b5e7a25bd60d42094ee46\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default  canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"image-block\"><a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260516_3bb70473f32d4f17a760004b739b17c8\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:6b5bb1b1-037c-47f2-9f69-7c220d62d51b\" data-context='{\"section\":\"permalink\",\"name\":\"image\"}'><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/3b\/4by3\/2026\/05\/16\/3bb70473f32d4f17a760004b739b17c8_md.png\" alt=\"main spencer pratt chelsea handler jeffrey epstein getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-block__card-footer\"><span class=\"media-credit image-block__media-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-4346c2291e192a7a4941af94e0198ead\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context='{\"section\":\"permalink\",\"name\":\"text_block\"}'>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/spencer-pratt\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Spencer Pratt<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/chelsea-handler\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Chelsea Handler<\/strong><\/a> are in a war of words on social media over Spencer&#8217;s race to become the next mayor of Los Angeles \u2014 and things have gotten pretty ugly in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jeffrey-epstein\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Epstein<\/strong><\/a>way.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-9dfacffb6450efb66c5b08cdc0b904bc\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context='{\"section\":\"permalink\",\"name\":\"text_block\"}'>\n<p>Yep &#8230; that&#8217;s right &#8230; Spencer pulled the ol&#8217; Jeffrey Epstein card after Chelsea crapped all over his mayoral campaign, which he launched largely in response to his house burning down during the 2025 Palisades fires. Spencer called out the local politicians &#8212; namely Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/karen-bass\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Karen Bass<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; for their purported failures to manage the wildfires.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-21ed8bbca77612e0eb68dcc9de481920\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-instagram-media-block canvas-instagram-media-block-permalink canvas-instagram-media-block--default  \">\n<div id=\"cb-21ed8bbca77612e0eb68dcc9de481920-535009861-target\" class=\"d-flex justify-content-center\">\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/16\/spencer-pratt-chelsea-handler-karen-bass-mayor\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/3b\/16by9\/2026\/05\/16\/3bb70473f32d4f17a760004b739b17c8_xl.png&#8221;] Spencer Pratt Trades Insults With Chelsea Handler Over His L.A. Mayoral Run Spencer PrattChelsea Handler Partied With Epstein &#8230;Comedian Calls Spence Illegitimate Candidate By TMZ Staff Published May 16, 2026 2:35 AM PDT| Updated May 16, 2026 7:15 AM PDT Getty Spencer Pratt and Chelsea Handler are in a war of words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,77],"class_list":["post-1938699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tmz-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}