Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso on Tuesday said he declined to shake Jeffrey Katzenberg’s hand at a recent event, after the entertainment kingpin had heavily criticized him before and after his run for office.
“[Katzenberg] came up to me and tried to shake my hand, and I said, ‘There’s no way I’ll ever shake your hand,’” Caruso told Bari Weiss on her “Honestly” podcast.
Caruso said people like Katzenberg — who publicly and financially backed his opponent, current LA mayor Karen Bass, during the 2022 election — are “dangerous” and they “should be held accountable for the things that they did.”