Two of music's most powerful executives maxed out donations to Spencer Pratt

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Los Angeles’ music industry, in recent years, has generally supported progressive causes.But as the primaries for the city’s mayoral race and California‘s governorship wrapped up Tuesday, some music executives and performers have supported and donated large amounts to Spencer Pratt, the right-leaning activist and reality TV star running for mayor.

According to data from the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, Pratt’s supporters include two members of the record industry’s most powerful family who donated the maximum amount allowed by law.Pratt is a registered Republican whose heated rhetoric about homeless “zombies” and AI-created advertisements have rankled progressives and delighted conservatives.He has received support from President Trump, who told reporters that “I’d like to see him do well.

He’s a character.I don’t know him, I assume he probably supports me… I heard he’s a big MAGA person.”In response, Pratt told TMZ that “Everybody wants me to succeed because L.A.

is the most important city in the country.The only support I need is from moms that wanna feel safe in Los Angeles.

I’m laser-focused on that.”Universal Music Group is home to some of music’s most outspoken progressives, including Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish, whose brother and collaborator Finneas O’Connell donated $250 to the progressive mayoral candidate Nithya Raman on May 6.Earlier this year, UMG’s chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge presented Rodrigo with the company’s Universal Music Group x REVERB Amplifier Award, which advocates for “social and environmental nonprofit campaigns through the cultural power of music,” according to a release.On May 9, Grainge (listed as a resident of Pacific Palisades, where Pratt lost his home in the 2025 fires) maxed out with an $1,800 donation to Pratt’s campaign, as previously reported in The Times.A represe...