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Los Angeles Mayor Race Heads To Primary Day With Karen Bass & Spencer Pratt In Front, But There’s “Little Joy In Mudville”

Among plenty in Hollywood, the race for Los Angeles mayor isn’t so much a question of who to support, but rather how did it come to this? “A continued mess,” laments one top industry donor. With less than two weeks to go before the city’s crowded primary, polls point to incumbent Karen Bass and reality […]

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L.A. Mayor Drama: Raman Bests Pratt In Latest Vote Count; Incumbent Bass Rival Still TBD As Feds Open Probe

(Updated with Karen Bass & Spencer Pratt statements) Donald Trump’s election conspiracy temper tantrum on NBC’s Meet The Press aside, the roller coaster drama in the Los Angeles Mayoral remains unmatched almost a week after polls closed in the City of Angels. In a true Hollywood reversal of fortune that could end up in a […]

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Spencer Pratt Breaks Silence On L.A. Mayor’s Race Loss

Spencer Pratt’s near deafening silence over being shut out of the runoff race to be Los Angeles’ Mayor has come to an end, sorta. Three days after counted ballots in the bids between The Hills self-declared villain and Councilmember Nithya Raman to secure the second spot in the mayoral election this fall saw former Palisades […]

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Matthew Perry Death: ‘Friends’ Star’s Assistant Sentenced; Ken Iwamasa Injected Fatal Ketamine Shots

Matthew Perry’s live-in personal assistant was sentenced today to almost three and a half years behind bars for injecting the Friends star with the three ketamine doses that killed him on October 28, 2023. Also hit with a $10,000 fine Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, Ken Iwamasa is the fifth and final […]

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Hollywood Legal Hustle: Amazon & Vice Smacked With Defamation Suit Over Docuseries On “Millennial Madoff” & $650M Ponzi Scheme

The former business partner of the incarcerated “midwestern, millennial Madoff” who ripped off investors and pals to the tune of $650 million with promises of lucrative licensing rights to HBO and Netflix flicks is plenty peeved at Amazon Studios, Vice Studios and director Rebecca Chaikin. “As a result of Defendants’ desire to sensationalize the Series and […]

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Nithya Raman’s Lead Over Spencer Pratt In L.A. Mayor’s Race Grows To 22K; Karen Bass, Projected To Face Ex-Ally In Runoff, “Looks Forward To Winning”

The trend in Los Angeles’ mayoral primary race continues to lean Nithya Raman’s way as the two-term City Council member grew her lead over Spencer Pratt for a run-off against incumbent Karen Bass. There are more votes still to be counted, but it looks almost certain that Raman’s surge has swept the Donald Trump endorsed-Pratt […]

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Battle For L.A.: Incumbent Karen Bass On Trump Backing Pratt For Mayor, LAPD Control, ParaBros Deal & Protecting Hollywood Jobs For Angelenos

Editor’s note: In what could be one of the most consequential elections in Los Angeles’ history, the race this year for mayor sees two former allies in an increasingly sharp bid to take over City Hall. With many issues in the contest between incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Nithya Raman and reality TV vet Spencer Pratt impacting the entertainment industry, Deadline […]

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