Spencer Pratt seems to have swiftly exited Los Angeles following his defeat in the city’s mayoral primary, having been spotted dining out last week.

The 42-year-old former mayoral hopeful was seen with his wife, Heidi Montag, 39, in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, which is roughly a 90-minute drive from Downtown Los Angeles, on Thursday.

The couple, known for their reality TV fame, were observed leaving Delgado’s Mexican restaurant shortly after Spencer Pratt made jibes at the two leading candidates in LA’s mayoral race: incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger, City Councilmember Nithya Raman.

Pratt had criticized Mayor Bass’s handling of Los Angeles’s homelessness issues and expressed concerns over crime rates, which have reportedly reached historic lows, according to the Los Angeles Times. His criticism followed allegations of her inadequate response to last year’s LA Fires, which destroyed his home.

Additionally, this sighting occurred just days before a fire erupted at Pratt’s crystal business in LA, an incident he attributed to arson orchestrated by his political adversaries.

The failed mayoral candidate stayed under the radar for his trip out of LA in a black graphic T-shirt and tan shorts, along with a navy baseball cap and chunky black sunglasses. 

Spencer Pratt appeared to have made a quick retreat from LA after his bruising loss in the city’s mayoral primary when he was spotted grabbing a bite two counties over in Carpinteria, Calif., with his wife, Heidi Montag, on Thursday

Montag looked similarly casual in a gray sweater with navy stripes and flared jeans. 

She covered up her long blond hair with a pale peach-colored Louis Vuitton baseball cap, and she also donned sunglasses. 

Her husband’s eyes were glued to his phone as they headed out of the restaurant. 

Last week, Pratt claimed to have obtained secret recordings of the more successful Los Angeles mayoral hopefuls, which he said could force them to ‘resign in disgrace’ if released.

The reality TV star made the allegations in a blistering rant on social media that he posted four days after he was booted from the race. 

Pratt pledged to go to ‘war’ with the remaining candidates, incumbent Mayor Bass and progressive Raman, as he vaguely claimed that his loss was the result of ‘the machine protecting the machine.’

Vowing that he would still ‘stop’ Bass and Raman, Pratt claimed to have ‘some recordings of one of your exalted candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame.’

‘Karen, Nithya, ask yourselves,’ he said. ‘Is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?

Pratt was dressed casually and wore chunky sunglasses as he left Delgado’s Mexican restaurant with Montag. A day later, he claimed to have incriminating recordings of his successful primary opponents, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilwoman Nithya Raman

The intense, three-minute video on Friday saw Pratt admit that his campaign is ‘coming to a close’ but insist he is moving on to a ‘more interesting phase.’

‘Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems, and they have to choose between dumb and dumber,’ Pratt said.

‘Now, every problem that plagues Los Angeles, because of these two corrupt communists, is going to accelerate, and the city will tumble headlong into the abyss.’

The former TV star appeared to suggest that federal authorities were ‘coming’ after Bass and Raman, though he offered no evidence for that.

‘I want all of you awake at night sweating and worried about 5 a.m., when the FBI blazers bust in the door, breaking open your office,’ Pratt said.

‘Because I assure you, they’re coming,’ he added.

Pratt did not provide any specifics about the supposed recordings, or how they came to exist, including if his opponents knew they were being recorded. 

However, he added: ‘If you think we uncovered a lot of fraud and evil in the campaign, just wait.’

Pratt claims to have obtained secret recordings of the Los Angeles mayoral hopefuls that would force them to ‘resign in disgrace’ if released. He didn’t provide additional details about the alleged recordings or how he obtained them

Pratt said that the problems plaguing Los Angeles would ‘accelerate’ and claimed that voters had ‘no idea how bad things’ were about to get now that they face the prospect of another Democratic mayor; Tents are seen on Skid Row in June 2025

Pratt spelled out a grim doomsday ‘zero hour’ prediction for Los Angeles under the leadership of Raman or Bass.

‘You have no idea how bad things are about to get for this city,’ he added.

Pratt, until now best known for his role in The Hills, claimed that developers, hoteliers, business owners and entrepreneurs had gotten in touch with him to say that they’re ‘packing up and leaving town.’

He predicted that would mean less tax revenue, which in turn would force Los Angeles to cut its services.

‘More potholes, less firefighters, less police patrols, more criminals, more drug addicts terrorizing your communities,’ Pratt alleged. 

He vowed that he would continue ‘lighting up’ Bass and Raman ‘every single day’ without restrictions.

‘You think you can get rid of me that easily?’ Pratt cracked.

The mayoral hopeful also forcefully shot down the idea that he would leave Los Angeles after the election – a day after he was spotted two counties over – as he blasted LA’s liberal voters.

Pratt appeared to insinuate that the FBI would target Bass (pictured) and Raman – without evidence – in an explosive three-minute video he released Friday; Bass is pictured June 9 in LA

Raman (pictured on June 10) advanced to the November runoff with Bass after gradually overtaking Pratt as additional mail-in ballots were counted

‘I know a lot of dimwitted jerks thought I was in this for a grift, that I was gonna roll up and leave town if I didn’t get into City Hall,’ Pratt said.

‘Hey, morons, I didn’t get in this for political power,’ he continued. ‘I got in this to expose this corrupt machine, and nothing has changed. ‘

The Associated Press determined that Raman had advanced to the November runoff against Bass on Monday night.

That eliminated Pratt, who appeared to concede despite vowing to stay involved in California politics through the November runoff.

Raman gradually pulled ahead of Pratt as additional mail–in ballots in the nonpartisan mayoral race were processed that favored Raman over him.

Los Angeles, like other California counties, processes and counts mail ballots in roughly the order they are received.

That means that the last ballots returned are the last ones counted by authorities. 

Ballots are counted in the West Coast state if they are postmarked by Election Day and arrive at an election office within seven days.

Pratt said that Los Angeles would remain a ‘mess’ once voters reelected Bass or put Raman into power; Downtown LA is pictured on June 4

The former reality TV star pointed to ‘graffiti over every square inch of public space’ as one of the issues that LA is facing

Pratt previously suggested that the number of votes Raman got to catch up to him matched the number of homeless people in LA, though he didn’t provide any evidence that homeless people had played a decisive role in Raman beating him.

‘A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday..’ 43,000, huh?’ Pratt wrote Sunday on X.

‘Where have I seen that number before? Probably nothing,’ he wrote, quoting an article that said there were 43,699 people who experience homelessness in the city.

Bill Essayli, the First Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California, said on June 5 on X that his office had ‘multiple election fraud investigations underway’ in coordination with the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Pratt, Raman’s campaign and Bass’ campaign and spokesperson for comment.

In a breakthrough after decades of mystery, forensic tests have successfully identified the remains of a man who was last seen alive in 1998. This identification comes 26 years after these remains were initially found in a sleeping bag tucked away in the remote expanses of Washington state’s Olympic National Park.

The man, identified as Joseph Louis Serrao Jr., hailed from Hawaii and had been residing in Washington before he vanished, according to his family. They shared this information with Othram, the forensic laboratory that collaborated with National Park Service investigators to finally resolve this long-standing case. Serrao’s family reported they had not had any contact with him since 1998.

Fast forward two years to July 2000, when a researcher stumbled upon human skeletal remains in a secluded section of Olympic National Park, near the Sol Duc River, as stated by the National Park Service. These remains were discovered inside a sleeping bag within a tent, accompanied by various items including binoculars, a day hiker pack, a shoulder bag, a folding saw, a blanket, and winter gear, detailed both by the park service and the forensic lab.

At the time of discovery, a pathologist from Washington’s King County medical examiner’s office estimated the remains belonged to a man aged between 30 and 50, who had likely died between six months to two years prior. Investigators later determined that Serrao, born in December 1960, would have been in his late 30s at the time of his death. However, the absence of “usable” fingerprints and other definitive evidence initially hindered authorities from making progress in identifying him.

Investigators eventually learned that Serrao, who was born in December 1960, would have been in his late 30s at the time of his death. But, back then, the lack of “usable” fingerprints and other concrete evidence prevented authorities from developing leads that might have helped them uncover his identity.

His name remained unknown until recently. A breakthrough came once an anthropologist with the medical examiner’s office submitted a DNA sample to Othram in 2024, according to the park service, which investigated Serrao’s case alongside King County authorities and the laboratory. Using forensic genealogy — a technique that can help pinpoint living relatives of a deceased person based on the decedent’s DNA — the lab was able to identify possible family members by 2025.

Investigators reached out to relatives in multiple states, including Hawaii, and eventually compared and matched DNA samples from them to the one taken from Serrao’s remains.

“This case remained unresolved for nearly 30 years, but investigators never lost sight of the goal of identifying this individual and finding answers for his family,” Debra Flowers, deputy chief of the park service’s criminal investigative division, said in a statement. “I’m proud of the persistence and collaboration that made this identification possible, and I hope it brings some measure of closure to those who have spent so many years wondering what happened to Joseph.”