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Spencer Pratt has admitted to leaking photos of Mary-Kate Olsen.
In his new memoir titled The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions, the 42-year-old media personality wrote that he capitalized on his friend Max Winkler's breakup from Olsen, now 39, in the early aughts.
He attended Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California in 2002 with The Row co-founder and Winkler, son of actor Henry Winkler.
According to People, Pratt penned that he disassembled Winkler's 'photo shrine' to Olsen – which he described as 'young love documented in European hotels, Hollywood parties, stolen moments' – and sold the fragments to a tabloid for $50,000.
'I asked Max if I could take the photos off his wall – you know, for his healing process. He didn’t say no, so I took that to be a yes,' read an excerpt.
'Here I was, 20 years old, turning my buddy's romantic misery into startup capital,' he bragged in the book.
Spencer Pratt admitted in his new memoir that he leaked photos of Mary-Kate Olsen to make $50,000; pictured on Tuesday
The 42-year-old media personality wrote in The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions that he capitalized on his friend Max Winkler's breakup from Olsen, now 39, in the early aughts; pictured in 2009
He added, 'Less than a week later there it was, evidence of my entrepreneurial genius staring back at me from the InTouch cover at a gas station: 'TEENS GONE WILD!' across the cover'
He added, 'Less than a week later there it was, evidence of my entrepreneurial genius staring back at me from the InTouch cover at a gas station: 'TEENS GONE WILD!' across the cover.'
The author noted that a photo of him with Olsen was also published, after it was provided to the magazine by another seller.
'A shot of Mary-Kate with a constellation of empties — 'LOOK AT ALL THE EMPTIES!' — and there I was in the background, frozen mid-shaka.
'I hadn’t sold that frame. Someone else was shopping, and now I wasn’t just the seller, I was part of the merchandise.
'My face was now forever linked to Mary-Kate Olsen’s supposed wild phase, preserved in grocery store checkout lines across America,' he illustrated.
In 2008 Olsen revealed on the Late Show with David Letterman that she was not friends with Pratt, revealing he did 'not have a good temper' and recalling that he would 'walk out of' soccer games in a huff.
Pratt is rebuilding his life following 2025's devastating California wildfires, which destroyed the home he shared with wife Heidi Montag.
The couple married in 2008 and share sons Gunner, eight, and Ryker, three.
Pratt penned that he disassembled Winkler's 'photo shrine' to Olsen – which he described as 'young love documented in European hotels, Hollywood parties, stolen moments'
The former reality television villain is married to Heidi Montag and they share sons Gunner, eight, and Ryker, three
The LA-bred star attended the They Let Us Burn! protest in the Palisades earlier this month and revealed his shocking plan to run for mayor of the city.
He proclaimed in a speech, 'The system in Los Angeles isn’t struggling, it’s fundamentally broken. It is a machine designed to protect the people at the top and the friends they exchange favors with while the rest of us drown in toxic smoke and ash.
'Business as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles, and I’m done waiting for someone to take real action.
'That’s why I am running for mayor. And let me be clear, this just isn’t a campaign, this is a mission, and we’re gonna expose the system.'
The father of two added, 'They intentionally let us burn before, during and after. There was no accountability. It was gross negligence. They let this happen.
'It wasn’t a natural disaster or something that was unavoidable. It was their fault, and we need the accountability we deserve.'
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