A war of words erupted this week between Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt and “The Price Is Right” host Drew Carey, escalating rapidly from a social media insult into a full-blown confrontation involving Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Carey struck first on Friday, climbing onto his Threads account to deliver a blunt message aimed at Los Angeles voters ahead of the June 2 primary.
“Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Pratt for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a–,” the game show host wrote publicly.
Carey pushed further, describing Pratt as “some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass” before closing with a final three-word dismissal: “F— this guy already.”
Pratt did not let the attack go unanswered.
By Monday, the 42-year-old former reality television star took to X and connected both Carey and comedian Chelsea Handler — two of his most vocal celebrity detractors — directly to documents tied to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“Isn’t it weird how the two comedians historically lashing out against me are both in the ‘Epstein files’? What are the odds?” Pratt wrote.
Pratt backed the statement with evidence. He posted what he described as a 2002 email authored by TV writer Jeff Davis and addressed to Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator.
The email read that Davis had been “having dinner tonight with Drew Carey and the guys from ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’” and that the group had been “talking about our encounter with you.”
Pratt also shared a video clip pulled from “The Roast of Kevin Hart,” in which comedian Shane Gillis called out Handler for attending a dinner with Epstein in 2010.
Epstein died behind bars in 2019 following his federal conviction on sex trafficking charges.
Handler had already made her position known before Carey weighed in.
In a separate Instagram video, she declared, “this is a reminder that a straight, white male, former reality star that has no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate political candidate.”
Neither Carey’s nor Pratt’s representatives responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Pratt’s path to this mayoral campaign runs directly through the ashes of the 2025 Palisades wildfire, which consumed his home.
He announced his candidacy in January, making the removal of incumbent Mayor Karen Bass his central campaign objective, citing her administration’s handling of the disaster.
The campaign extended into the courts as well. Pratt, alongside wife Heidi Montag and more than a dozen fellow property owners, filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power.
Court documents obtained by Fox News Digital reveal the plaintiffs accused LADWP of making “the conscious decision to operate the water supply system with the reservoir drained and unusable as a ‘cost-saving’ measure” during the fire.
With one week remaining before the primary, Pratt posted a Sunday rallying call to voters.
“We don’t have to accept the filth and the decline,” he wrote. “We have the greatest slice of heaven on Earth with our city, and we deserve better. Vote for Pratt. Vote for LA. Vote TODAY. Let’s clean this city together.”
President Donald Trump briefly addressed Pratt’s candidacy last week while speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews.
“Oh, I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character,” Trump said, before asking aloud whether Pratt supported him.
Trump then cast doubt on the legitimacy of California’s election infrastructure.
“The votes are rigged. You have a really rigged vote in California,” he said. “You have all the mail-in ballots, everything else. Very hard to win because the elections are very dishonest. If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California because I do great with Hispanics. But it’s a rigged vote.”
Pratt pushed back against attempts to define him along party lines.
“Everyone is trying to claim me for their tribe,” he wrote Saturday. “There’s no R next to my name, there’s no D next to my name. I’m not part of a political party, because I hate politicians.”
He added, “I’m just Spencer, husband to Heidi, father to Ryker and Gunner, and I’m a pissed off Angeleno who loves my city and is fed up with what corrupt politicians have done to her.”
While Pratt carries a Republican voter registration, Los Angeles conducts its mayoral elections on a nonpartisan basis. If no candidate clears 50 percent on June 2, the top two vote-getters advance to a November runoff.
