US EditionSpencer Pratt Leaked Teen Photos of Mary-Kate Olsen Partying to Press for $50,000 | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Spencer Pratt sold private photos of teen Mary-Kate Olsen from Max Winkler’s bedroom for up to $90,000 during the 2004 tabloid era, revealing this in his 2026 memoir.
- Released Jan. 27, Spencer Pratt revealed in his memoir that he sold private Mary-Kate Olsen photos taken from a ‘shrine’ on Max Winkler’s bedroom wall before his reality-TV fame, and the images soon surfaced in tabloids.
- Growing up in Santa Monica, Pratt found close celebrity connections and discovered Olsen photos on Max Winkler’s wall; he said he lacked filmmaking resources and asked Max for permission to help with his healing.
- Pratt said he collected $50,000 for the first photo sold to InTouch and later told Page Six Radio total payments reached $90,000, describing the exchange as like a drug deal.
- Representatives for Olsen and Winkler did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment, and Spencer Pratt says a different photo he didn’t sell got him "a little heat" while he now downplays regret.
- The episode underscores how private images became commercial fodder in the early 2000s, as Spencer Pratt wrote he sought to "monetize" proximity to fame during the golden age of tabloid voyeurism and linked his image to Mary-Kate Olsen's supposed wild phase in mass-market outlets.
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Spencer Pratt Leaked Teen Photos of Mary-Kate Olsen Partying to Press for $50,000 | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Spencer Pratt is looking back at life before The Hills. In his new memoir The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain, which is out now, Spencer, 42, revealed that when he was in high school, he sold photos of a teenage Mary-Kate Olsen to the press for $50K. Keep reading to find out more…Spencer said that he wanted to direct his own film, but didn’t have the funds to do so, so he tapped into a “wasted resource” with the help…
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