Candy Spelling's Holmby Hills mansion listed for $150 million
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This Holmby Hills mansion is believed to have 100 rooms, but owner Candy
Spelling says she hasn't counted. Officially known as "The Manor," the
property, which looks like a French chateau and is slightly larger than
the White House - is the largest home in Los Angeles County.
The asking price makes the Holmby Hills estate, owned by the widow of TV
producer Aaron Spelling and mother of actress Tori, the most expensive
residential listing in the U.S.
By Lauren Beale and Peter Y. Hong
March 28, 2009
There are homes. And then there is Candy Land -- all 56,500 square feet
of it.
Candy Spelling, widow of legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling, has put
her 4.7-acre residence in Holmby Hills up for sale. Priced at $150
million, it's currently the most expensive residential listing in the
U.S.
Whether Spelling will have to take a haircut on that asking price in
today's market remains to be seen. If so, she'll be prepared: The home
has its own barbershop. Plus a whole lot more.
Officially known as "The Manor," the property -- which looks like a
French chateau and is slightly larger than the White House -- is the
largest home in Los Angeles County. Spelling, the mother of actress Tori
Spelling, describes it as the "greatest entertainment house ever" with a
"kitchen where you can cook for two or 800." The parking lot, dubbed the
"motor court," can accommodate 100 vehicles, with 16 carports to boot.
It's all become a little too much for Spelling, 63, who is downsizing to
a 16,500-square-foot condo in Century City. But she said the Holmby
Hills spread was filled with fond memories.
"All the stars came through," Spelling said of her 18 years in
residence. "Prince Rainier, Prince Charles, Jackie Kennedy -- every star
from every one of Aaron's shows."
Built in 1991, the three-story house has many rooms customized for
specific purposes. There's Aaron Spelling's automated projection room
(one of Candy Spelling's favorites), a bowling alley, a flower-cutting
room, a wine cellar/tasting room, even a silver storage room with
humidity control. Outside there is a swimming pool with pool house,
tennis court, a koi pond, gardens and a citrus orchard.
To house the staff, a service wing has five maids' bedrooms and two
butlers' suites, one of which has a kitchenette. The house is believed
to have more than 100 rooms. Spelling said she isn't sure, because she's
never counted them.
But can it command $150 million in the worst economic downturn since the
Great Depression?
"It's impossible to price because there's only one," said Realtor Kurt
Rappaport, co-founder of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, who is
not the listing agent on the property. "If they get the right person at
the right moment they have a shot."
"We're in a different environment, but there are still plenty of very
wealthy people in the world," he said. "Once a decade one of the trophy
properties in Los Angeles becomes available. Certainly it's a lot of
money, but it's not like there's another one around the corner for
sale."
Rappaport said he expected the house to be purchased as a full-time
residence for someone who has Los Angeles as his or her base, holds
large fundraisers and has a big staff.
Spelling's Holmby Hills home, which boasts the square footage of a small
Wal-Mart, dwarfs its neighbors in size and listing price. The
11,000-square-foot house across the street, for example, is listed at a
mere $16.9 million, according to Realtor.com. The highest asking price
of a U.S. home currently on the website, which gathers data from
Multiple Listing Service feeds, is $125 million for Fleur de Lys, a
nearby 12-bedroom, 15-bathroom residence with 54,000 square feet of
living space on 5 acres.
Michael Libow, a Beverly Hills real estate agent, said setting a price
for a property like the Spelling house would have to be done more by
feel than facts. "There's no broker who's inherently knowledgeable at
that price point," he said, because houses are rarely listed for
anything near that price.
"It's almost intuitive, it's a trophy property, similar to the Playboy
mansion. If there's still somebody out there who wants a trophy
property, this would be it," Libow said.
The problem would be finding someone with the means and the will to make
such a purchase. "Over the last year, we've lost many of the foreign
buyers," Libow said. "The fabulous exchange rates have diminished and
some high rollers have lost a substantial amount of liquidity."
Fred Sands, who once owned one of the nation's largest real estate
brokerages and is now a commercial real estate investor, said prices for
houses like the Spelling property tend to be set largely at the seller's
whim -- and the listing price could be far from the eventual sale price.
"A broker is capable of saying, 'It's listed at 150, but make me an
offer,' " Sands said. "They'd have a better chance at $60 million, $70
million, but it's an iconic property -- who's to say?"
Neighbors have not had much luck attempting sales approaching Spelling's
price. The Holmby Hills house currently listed for $125 million has been
on the market since spring 2007. The former Marion Davies home in
Beverly Hills was taken off the market last year after failing to get a
buyer at $165 million. A Bel-Air home designed by Wallace Neff was
pulled from the market after eight months last year when it didn't sell
for $85 million.
Libow said competition for the Spelling house could come from a Bel-Air
home that is smaller, at 2.2 acres, but has "major views" and was listed
last month for $85 million.
So far, the highest price paid for a home in L.A. County remains $94
million for a Bel-Air house bought by former telecom mogul Gary Winnick
in 2001.
The local pool of billionaires, 39, according to a list compiled last
year by the Los Angeles Business Journal, is likely to have shrunk
because of investment declines. At least two were clients of confessed
financial swindler Bernard Madoff.
Forbes magazine, meanwhile, reports that the number of billionaires in
the world has dropped by 30% in the last year, to 793 from 1,125. Their
average net worth is $3 billion. Americans constitute 45% of the pool.
The Spelling property was a celebrity address before the Spellings took
ownership. It was the site in the early '80s of Bing Crosby's home,
which was torn down to build the current one.
Candy Spelling bought the top two floors of a Century City condo
building last summer for $47 million. The purchase set a record price
paid of $2,848 per square foot for an L.A. condo. The "apartment," as
the understated Spelling called it, is going to be ready at the end of
the year, and she hopes to move in by March or April of 2010.
Her reasons for the move echo those of other baby boomers selling today.
"I'm not up-sizing from here," said Spelling, whose day-to-day companion
is her wheaten terrier, Madison. "It's a big house for one person."
With conspicuous consumption being uncool now, I hope
it sits there and rots.
Kris
It's been sitting there and rotting pretty much since Spelling died.
She has had it on the market the whole time. I mean, she lived there,
but she has been trying to unload it the whole time.
Your class envy is showing. <g>
They are right. Aaron Spelling worked hard all his life. No one left him
any money. He was successful in everything he did and amassed a fortune
doing it. If he was a nice guy, a good American, he should have moved into a
housing project in the slums of Chicago.
(Snerk)
At first, I thought you were serious -- then I realized that
no one except Candy Spelling thinks she has "class".
But...on the off-chance you do define her as classy, I'll
be glad to send you a free DVD that'll fit into your
collection:
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Kris
Dear Insanity: That mansion was Candy Spelling's "fuck you"
project to the rest of Beverly Hills. Aaron could have cared
less.
Kris
And if I had that kind of money that would be the same project directed at
you.
Thus making you the laughing stock of many.
I'm sure I can find you a nice single-wide down here.
Kris
Did you see her on 20/20 last night, complaining she realized too late
that Spelling married her to be merely a trophy wife? And I was
thinking, aren't trophy wives supposed to be pretty? Yeah, she was a
lot younger then Spelling (I think she was 20-something when they
married, and he was 40-something), but she was and is not good looking.
> It's been sitting there and rotting pretty much since Spelling died.
> She has had it on the market the whole time. I mean, she lived there,
> but she has been trying to unload it the whole time.
I imagine the maintenance on the place is a serious budget
buster, kind of like owning a horse.
--
Real men don't text.
I'd read somewhere (shortly after it came on the market) that it had
something like 15 bathrooms. I think owning a horse is much cheaper
than paying the staff to clean this place.
Gee, Rodeo Realty only shows she is asking $125,000,000:
http://www.rodeore.com/international_search.asp. It even has a name,
Fleur De Lys
I never understood why someone with one spouse and two children needed
a house *that* large. I mean, sure, have a big house, but so many
rooms that the owner doesn't know the number?
> > I imagine the maintenance on the place is a serious budget
> > buster, kind of like owning a horse.
>
> I'd read somewhere (shortly after it came on the market) that it had
> something like 15 bathrooms. I think owning a horse is much cheaper
> than paying the staff to clean this place.
Well, yes. But my point was that much like how the maintenance
on a horse can vastly exceed its purchase price, so goes the
ownership of this house. If I couldn't host something there that
would make money, I wouldn't touch it with the proverbial very
long thing. Not that I could anyway, but still.
I have a nice 'single wide' and you can kiss it.
Or a boat. There's an old saying: A boat is a hole in the water into
which you pour money.
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Hey, that's real cute. But, of course, to be expect-
ed from you and others that are forever bitter with
jealousy of the successes of others.
Or, is it your own failure(s) that generate such hate?
Why are you just discussing Spelling? Why not Bill Gates. His house is
valued at 200 million right now. Does his family need such a complex or is
that house the house of a man that was worth 101 biilion dollars? Why does
a person buy a Rolls Royce when he could by a Chevvy? The answer is:
Because he can!!!!!!
> Officially known as "The Manor," the property -- which looks like a
> French chateau and is slightly larger than the White House -- is the
> largest home in Los Angeles County.
It wouldn't surprise me if our current president would decide to buy
it so that he could have his long-desired White House West.
WHW would serve as Obama's west coast base of operations so he
wouldn't have to suffer jet lag while doing his globe trotting
political games.
Of course, after intense hard-fought negotiations, the government
wouldn't pay Spelling any less than, say, $800 million for the place.
Since it's Aaron Spellings house, maybe it hasn't sold because there are
certain requirements from the buyer besides the price. Do you know what I mean?
Certaintly no rich arab from saudia wants it, and they probably wouldn't sell it to him anyway.
You probably have to meet certaint requirements...
I don't have the ability to explain it, ...but this house is like "God's house".
Like Yahweh house, prounounced (Yod Heh Vav Heh).
So you understand...you don't sell that house to just anyone. Aaron Spelling is like a god in
those people's minds. And you just don't sell God's house to a rock star.
Sorry, I don't know how else to explain it...without creating World War 3!!!!
In otherwords, it has to be someone who is Kosher, to buy it.
Or maybe someone who is looked upon in their community as a Yahweh, prounounced (Yod Heh Vav Heh).
(I'm having a hard time prouncing it, I keep looking to the sky to make sure lightning doesn't strike me.)
I think Benard Mardoff would be the perfect buyer. He's like a Yahweh with sticky fingers.
I mean, when you got these people giving him 50 billion dollars certaintly they must think he's some god!
A Godnif? Did I make up a new word?
Well, anyway....whoever buys the house "has to be Jewish", and not a schmuck.
Those are the requirements.
The Starmaker
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I knew it would happen!
I don't think Candy Spelling was ever really 'accepted' by the Hollywood elite.
Whatever repect she got was as a result of being Mrs. Spelling. I'd be curious
to know who her true Hollywood friends are.
twitch
What about Spelling's first wife:
Did they have children?
Was she jewish?
She was an excellent actress.
Wull
"comadrejo" <comadr...@mac.com> wrote in message
news:comadrejoagua-A6B...@news.giganews.com...
> In article <gqm3k...@drn.newsguy.com>,
> TV is sort of looked upon as the more homely cousin of Film Industry,
> even though it can be just as lucrative, and not as tumultuous. If a TV
> producer makes hits after hit of mediocre shows, it shows how lucrative
> it can be. Candy Spelling can probably live off the residuals every
> year from her husband TV shows, which is a nice steady income, Why she
> can buy her condo before putting her house on the market.
>
> I don't know much about LA high society mores, but it sounds like the
> Spellings were so garish and over the top, she wasn't exactly welcomed
> to charity and society events. She also is seemed to be so outrageous
> in her spending. She bought her Condo/Penthouse for some $47 million,
> and will probably put another $47 million into the construction and
> decorating the place. Besides the enormous overhead for upkeep, (Ditto
> for her "manor" on South Mapleton drive)
>
> http://losangeles.blockshopper.com/property/4359013032/594_s_mapleton_dri
> ve/
>
> look at the property taxes on this white elephant.
A Russian billionaire wanted to buy a house near Cannes or St. Tropez
(obviously that's in France) last year and he was to pay 500 million
Euros
for it, which is more than 500 million dollars, making it the most
expensive house ever, but he pulled out of it this year, and the
sellers said it was because he was earning less due to the financial
cricis, but my guess is that he got wise to the idea that they were
just trying to pull the wool over his ears.
So 150 million isn't that much.
RT
A 150 million is not a lot of money. You can get a 150 people with a million dollars to buy the house.
Bernard Mardoff can buy the house without even using his own money! And he can get
everyone else to pay for the upkeep.
Eventually he would have to sell it for some reason...
Why don't you lean over and ask Rush for a couple of his Prozacs and then relax.
No need to get worked up about Candy.
twitch
One of the other real estate sites claimed this one was the Aaron
Spelling house (not sure if it was Coldwell Banker or Remax). I just
think they are too big, even if I had $125 or $150 mil to spare.
To you she might not seem like a trophy wife but to someone like Aaron
Spelling she certainly was. He was a Jew (= not very passionate in
the bedroom). And he looked like a bush baby. To him Candy Spelling
was Miss Universe!
picture of Aaron Spelling:
http://www.etribes.com/sites/etribes.com/files/images/bush%20baby.jpg
(And since Aaron had his trophy wife, where was her trophy boy? You
just *know* she had to be getting it on the side from some hot 20 year
old Mexican or something.)
Only a stripper would giver herself a name like Candy.
Leave it to some A-Hole to bring religion into this conversation.
Nowadays, perhaps. But remember, Candy is an old woman. Well-to-do
women from her generation like to go by names like Biffy, Buffy,
Miffy, Sissy, Tuffy, Candy, Cookie, etc.
I found this dated March 12th, 2008...
http://www.popcrunch.com/candy-spelling-cheating-tori-spelling-says/
Tori Spelling accusing her mother, Hollywood socialite Candy Spelling, of
cheating on her dying father in her new memoir sTori Telling, in stores now. For
the first time, Tori uses the word “affair” about her mother’s relationship with
family friend, Mark Nathanson, while her dad, legendary television producer,
Aaron Spelling, was on his deathbed.
In July 2006, Candy, with whom Tori has always had a guarded relationship,
denied the affair and said they were just friends.
“That’s her truth to tell,” Tori says. “I did resent it, but she was there for
my dad. I did resent Mark’s relationship with our family. He’s no longer in our
lives, including our mother’s.”
Yes, I remember reading about him a few years ago. IIRC he was like
in his forties or fifties when he was involved with Candy. I remember
reading somewhere a long time ago that super rich women keep their
trophy husbands for financial support, then take a long-time lover for
emotional support, and get a hot young stud to stay in shape (Kegels
alone can only go so far). I guess Mark was her emotional support.
There's probably a call-in service in the Beverly Hills/Bel Air area
for the hot young stud requirements of the filthy rich women of the
area. You know, "My husband's gonna be away on business this weekend
and he's taking the private jet. Can you please send Fernando over?"
But she dresses like a stripper
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20080319/293.spellings.031908.jpg
I don't see any mention of a religion.
About a year or so ago, there was a BI about a unfaithful wife of a powerful
Hollywood mogul with a young lover. The general consensus was Candy.
I guess the irony is that now she can see anyone openly but at 63, can't seem to
find someone she considers suitable. Of course, there's her dog to keep her
company.
twitch
What do you call this?
To you she might not seem like a trophy wife but to someone like Aaron
> > Spelling she certainly was. He was a Jew (= not very passionate in
> > the bedroom). And he looked like a bush baby. To him Candy Spelling
> > was Miss Universe!?
"
His race was mentioned, not his religion.
She should do what most men do her age in her community, hire a
prostitute.
She can place an ad in the LA Weekly, I'm 63, I got a big house, my
husband is dead and
I want a good time.
I got a twitch that needs twitching.
The Starmaker
"Well, anyway....whoever buys the house "has to be Jewish", and not a
schmuck."
that's good to know. Cuz any retard that sticks to the above quoted
line should die in misery. And I'll gladly pee on her/his grave
Race, religion, why was it mentioned at all and you don't think "Jew(=not
very passionate in the bedroom)" is not used in a derogatory manner?
"Roundtable" <lancelo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 28 Mrz., 23:07, comadrejo <comadrejoa...@mac.com> wrote:
>> In article <49CE8BE9.6...@ix.netcom.com>,
> A Russian billionaire wanted to buy a house near Cannes or St. Tropez
> (obviously that's in France) last year and he was to pay 500 million
> Euros
> for it, which is more than 500 million dollars, making it the most
> expensive house ever, but he pulled out of it this year, and the
> sellers said it was because he was earning less due to the financial
> cricis, but my guess is that he got wise to the idea that they were
> just trying to pull the wool over his ears.
>
> So 150 million isn't that much.
>
But that was last year before the American real estate market collapsed. The
number of people who could afford $150 million for a house is limited, and
even billionaires are suffering right now.
> Tori Spelling a ccusing her mother, Hollywood socialite Candy Spelling, of
> cheating on her dying father in her new memoir sTori Telling, in stores now. For
> t he first time, Tori uses the word “affair” about her mother’s relationship with
> family friend, Mark Nathanson, while her dad, legendary television producer,
> Aaron Spelling, was on his deathbed.
Frailty, thy name is woman.
Maybe he was just being funny, what difference does it make? They do have sex by cutting
little holes in sheets between them. If a guy wants to have sex with you and he cuts a
little hole in a white sheet and puts it between you and him, do you think that's very
passionate? Why are you getting so inSanity about this??
>
>
>Kris Baker needs to stay in her little ebay group.
>
>
>On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:33:45 -0500, in misc.consumers.frugal-living "Kris Baker" <paralle...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>><josej...@ssnet.net> wrote in message
>>news:sk2ts4ttv74ds67ka...@4ax.com...
>>>
>>>
>>> The Baker bitch needs to stay in her little ebay group.
>>
>>Why don't you stay the fuck out of alt.gossip.celebrities?
Jose needs to post nude pictures of herself first.
Sounds like an old Jewish proverb, ...if you know your Jewish proverbs.
"any retard that sticks to the above quoted line should die in misery.
And I'll gladly pee on her/his grave"
You must be Jewish. Only Jewish people talk that way....
That's what it means to be Jewish, you talk and think discusting.
The Starmaker
Did Aaron tell you that? Or are you being just a fat jerk again?
"snerk"
Because KB is a big fat idiot. Perhaps the most f'ed up poster on
uselessnet I have ever seen fwiw.
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