In his new memoir, Spencer Pratt confesses to a shady high school hustle: swiping and selling private photos of a teenage Mary-Kate Olsen partying with her ex, Max Winkler, to fund his film dreams. The pics hit tabloids in 2004, splashing 'TEENS GONE WILD!' across InTouch covers. Pratt still calls it a 'win-win'—no regrets here, folks.
Oh, honey, Spencer Pratt is spilling the tea on his villain origin story, and it's messier than a Hills reunion! In his freshly dropped memoir, 'The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain,' the 42-year-old reality star owns up to a high school scheme that screams entrepreneurial genius—or straight-up shady, depending on your vibe. Back then, Pratt was broke and itching to direct his own film, so he eyed a 'wasted resource': a stash of intimate snaps from Mary-Kate Olsen's breakup with Max Winkler, son of The Fonz himself, Henry Winkler. 😏 Max, fresh off the split, had turned his bedroom into a full-on 'photo shrine' dedicated to the teen twin—think 'young love documented in European hotels, Hollywood parties, stolen moments,' as Pratt describes it. Playing the concerned pal, Spencer swooped in: 'I asked Max if I could take the photos off his wall—you know, for his healing process,' he writes, per People. Max didn't protest, so boom—Spencer interpreted that as a green light. He even popped by the Winkler house, gave Henry a quick hello, and walked out with the goods. Next stop? A photo agency, where he unloaded the lot for a cool $50,000. Feeling like a millionaire, Pratt watched his handiwork explode less than a week later on the 2004 InTouch cover screaming 'TEENS GONE WILD!' There was Mary-Kate surrounded by a 'constellation of empties'—hello, rebel rebrand—and surprise, Pratt himself photobombed one shot, frozen mid-shaka. He hadn't even sold that frame; someone else cashed in, turning him into unwitting merch. Fast-forward two decades, and Pratt's still defending his hustle with zero apologies: 'When you really think about it, it was a win-win. Mary-Kate got her rebel rebrand, Max got closure.' TMZ reached out to Mary-Kate and Max for their side—no word yet. Is this the closure we all needed, or just more fuel for the gossip fire? 🔥
