Hollywood Party Mansion: Tiktok Personalities Plead Not Guilty

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Two social media personalities Thursday pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges connected to two parties they hosted in the Hollywood Hills during the pandemic. Bryce Hall and Blake Gray were charged last August with causing a public nuisance by hosting a loud and unruly gathering, along with violating the "Safer LA" emergency rules.

On August 28, City Attorney Mike Feuer said Hall and Gray hosted two parties at their shared rental home in less than a week, including a birthday party for Hall on August 14. Police officers initially issued a citation on August 8, and warned that future events could cause the power to be shut off, according to Feuer.

While Feuer said he believed up to two dozen people were at the first party, police returned to the house six days later and found several hundred people at a house party. Officers spoke with Gray, who said he was aware of the prior citation, according to Feuer.

"We allege these hosts have been incredibly irresponsible, with a highly infectious disease spreading and parties banned because of it, and we allege they violated the law," he said.

Mayor Garcetti eventually directed LADWP to shut off power and water at the party house on August 19.

"Today I authorized the City to disconnect utility service at a house in the Hollywood Hills to stop the large parties held there in flagrant violation of our public health orders," Garcetti said at the time. "Parties like these can quickly and easily spread the virus and put our communities at risk."

"If you have a combined 19 million followers on TikTok in the middle of a public health crisis, you should be modeling great behavior, best practices for all of us rather than brazenly violating the law and then posting videos about it as we allege happened here," Feuer said in announcing the charges against the two.

A pretrial hearing is set for March 19.

City News Service contributed to this report.