How fear and frustration over the city’s homelessness crisis turned one veteran flack into a political operative guiding controversial Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
A canny populist now courting Republican Party leaders and affluent citizens after the local Democratic Party renounced him in 2021, Villanueva also made ample room in his stump speech to address what he knew was one of his audience’s own primary grievances: the region’s homelessness crisis.
Long known for her acumen in shaping celebrity narratives and marrying A-listers with brands — as when, in 2016, she populated outrageously expensive penthouses and mansions with the likes of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, generating media coverage about “Airbnb Luxury Retreats”— Meisels, 44, has turned unexpected political fixer.
Hollywood figures have lately tried to intervene in high profile ways: Jeffrey Katzenberg drew attention for his private audiences with a number of L.A. City Councilmembers; in November 2021, Kanye West staged a photo-op at the L.A. Mission on Skid Row, where he dropped off 1,000 meals and promised additional support during a speech in which he spoke of trauma, the devil and those who “step over homeless people to go to the Gucci store.
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