Buy Candy Spelling’s $US150 Million House! (Please?)

@howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches): It does buy the contents of several two star hotels in Croatia though.

WindowSeat

Candy never hired a decorator, that's fer shure. Good god.

Banjo-Sea Kitten

@uncivily obedient: but that's how they love you, when your mean daughter won't.

Banjo-Sea Kitten

I'd rather buy Joe E. Tata's condo for $500k.

Bo_Thunder

Candy Spelling lives in a condo downtown now? Really?!?!!? That's the most amazing part of this story to me.

MyNameIsChris

The doll room reminds of that sceen in the wizard of oz sequel (i think, i may be crazy though) where she had the room of heads and she just picked one for the day. So creepy!

Just like my mother said, money doesn't buy taste.

@uncivily obedient: don't worry! there's a separate room with lighted, wooden cases for all of the doll boxes.

Charge ten bucks at the door and call it a Museum of 90's Kitsch and she may make her money back in 500 years.

WindowSeat

Idiots! They took the dolls out of their boxes.

It's all so.... so... beige. Blech.

Here's my quick-and-biased opinion on houses, one that has never led me astray: if you have ANYTHING gold or golden sitting out in your house, including actual gold, you are trashy. Period.

Read Paul Fussell's "Class," that explains everything you need to know about this house, and it's owner.

Someone should count the rooms, really. If you don't know how many rooms you have, you die.

Houses should only evolve so much.

After that it's a mania, per Xanadu or Ludwig of Bavaria.

Just one present wrapping room? How austere.

@dinergirl: I'm flashing back to the house owned by my aunt and uncle, both of whom had a crippling addiction to QVC and JC Penny furniture.

looks worse than tacky- just plain old boring!

TuxedoUWS

@uncivily obedient: now they can't sell them on ebay.

@MyNameIsChris: uhm, noticed that. Does not compute.

Banjo-Sea Kitten

@Private Hangnail: And what I wouldn't do for a custom designed gift wrapping room. The thought of it makes me tingly, although I can barely afford to walk into Kate's Paperie at the moment.

gladys_kravitz

Where's the E-Bay room?

This is a woman who's willingly going through life with the name Candy. Do we really need to see her house to know she has no taste?

High-end L.A. real estate has dropped at least 20-30% in value from its recent peak, and could go down by another 30% more before the bubble's done deflating. (Not that anyone's buying now anyway.)

If she can find a sucker willing to spend $110 mil on this monstrosity at this point, she should grab it and consider herself lucky.

@Smitros: Or the Winchester Mansion.

@MyNameIsChris: which building could it possibly be at that price & with amenities she would like?

HurricaneEyes

Remember, Charlie's Angels bought that house.

Is it just me, or is there something creepy about a house that's so large no one knows how many rooms there are? It's like the house could decide to take over at any minute.

I've seen this house before.

That house is a feng shui nightmare.

Mymoustache

@dinergirl: Nillas!

NYM

This makes me realize that while Tori Speling can be grating, So NoTORIous was a funny show, dammit.

Talk about chitz-y.

Scarion

And poor lil Tori only got like $700,000 from daddy's estate... While at the time I didn't really feel bad for her, now I'm thinkin' Candycane needs to make things right and give lil Tori a chunk..

Whew! For a minute there, I was worried that the house would be incredibly tacky. Boy, was I wrong ...

ginger rant

Oh lawdy... it looks like the same designer that does basements in North Dakota.

I think the only solution here is to sell it to Tori. Bonus points if she uses an exotic mortgage (no down payment, interest only, no docs, etc.) to get qualifeid for the loan. Then, instead of the populist rage being against Tori for buying such a monstrosity, people will sympathize with her because she is getting kicked out of her childhood home due to predatory lending.

friend_of_a_friend

It looks like Laura Ashley exploded in there!

Pastels?

The doll room is creepy. At any minute all the heads could turn in your direction.

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@MyNameIsChris: The $47 million penthouse is in Century City -- not Downtown LA.

Soy Bomb

It's not beige enough for my taste.

I remember years ago I was in LA on bizness and my contacts took me out to dinner, and after dinner they took me to see this house under construction without my even having to ask (it was on my mind...). It was really quite horrifying and ultimately, just sad. Much as that house on Long Island must be.

Louis XIV had a fricking court living with him, for heavens sake.

Rumpelstilskin

If this is about Candy Spelling, why is the top picture of Elizabeth Vargas interviewing Michael Jackson on his latest surgical procedure/skin lightening treatment?

Turncoat

@WindowSeat:

Good point. Like this and most American tract mansions are going to be habitable in 50 or 100 years.

I can't imagine the level of stupidity of the super rich who essentially live in "little towns" completely run by them. A gift wrapping room?! What's hilarious, is that I'm sure she's got a gift wrapping girl on the payroll too! Aint no way in hell Candy is wrapping presents.

they don't cook, they don't clean, they don't drive or commute. They just consume and it's rather disgusting.

rahelio

what you don't show here is the diorama they had constructed to look like a Parisian street complete with cafes that runs the entire length of the house, they said they built it because they just didn't have enough time to visit Paris!

Ms. Spelling/in the billiard room/with the torture wheel.

hharlowe

Get the Darwinists in quickly. The HOUSE is the missing link ("...has evolved...") and Candy's stood still (Botox?).

Goethewritesdrivel

It'll cost $150 million just to get rid of that decor. Sweet baby Jesus, pic #10, THAT WALLPAPER. That room is going to give me nightmares tonight. Thanks.

z00L

@Smitros: At least Ludwig built out of stone, this dump is acres of drywall.

WindowSeat

Does anyone else think it's funny that they are still calling it Aaron Spelling's mansion when he's been dead for 3 years? Isn't it Candy's now?

Kitten_Witawip

Oh no, you can sell the house but don't sell Aaron's dolls!

I'm going to buy it, gut it and open Mall of America II. That's what Aaron would have wanted. (Notice the use of Roman numerals - the class will sell itself!)

Jennifer Saunders makes a joke about "Candy Spelling's Present Wrapping Room" in an old Episode of Ab Fab. I always thought it was funny just because... Turns out it was funny because it's true. Still #4

dwtnguy

It has Maurice Villency written all over it.

depardoo

@Lymed is moving back east!: Probably dismantled because she doesn't want to admit that she is cheap and trashy although its no big secret. I've heard horror stories from the people forced to sell her shit on ebay.

this is what Richie Rich's house would look like

Smooth Operator

@kitler:

thats what i was thinking. the quality of the wood and furniture are what you would expect at a hotel or a corporate event center. blah.

Smooth Operator

My father would call that Early Jewish Renaissance.

depardoo

@mfnher: It's like the house of the future in the "Treehouse of Horror" Simpsons episode, in which the house falls in love with Marge and murders Homer...

Treeless

Having trouble wrapping my mind around a 17k sq ft condo.

are friends electric?

@mfnher: That would be an awesome horror movie.

@Lucille van Pelt: Return to Oz! The stuff of my childhood nightmares.

@HiredGoons: Morticia, in the second Adams family movie

Rumpelstilskin

@MyNameIsChris: It is in a new tower they just built 1 building north of the Fox tower.

shostakobitch

@Mymoustache: I think Candy is one of those who re-wrap presents whose paper doesn't "agree" with her decor. I am getting really blue now about people I don't even care about. Why don't I focus on Mugabe instead.

Rumpelstilskin

@Lucille van Pelt: Oh my god, me too. And then, if you disturb them at night they wake up and scream.

The common areas all look like rooms in a hotel. Perhaps she should just take in corporate boarders.

@Dave J.: Thanks for the reading recommendation. I am fascinated by issues of class and design and luxury and where it all comes from--what defines good taste and bad taste.

I recommend "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster" by Dana Thomas and the more lighthearted "The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste". I learned a lot and was never bored by either.

Treeless

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

Candy Spelling was born and raised in Fargo.

Smooth Operator

It's Winchester House meets Marie Osmond. Instred of being haunted by the ghosts of people murdered by guns, its haunted by tacky dolls.

Isn't Michael Jackson looking for a new home since he lost neverland>?

This place would be perfect for him with the doll room and all.

He could serve Jesus Juice at the bar.

Smooth Operator

@Lucia Toledo: I'm sure the staff knows exactly how many rooms there are.

@Lucille van Pelt: It was called "Return to Oz" and combined events from the second and third Oz books, adding in some electroshock scenes for good measure. Decent movie, and a very unnerving scene!

Treeless

@Rumpelstilskin: Tori's ex wrote something about how on holidays, people would drive by the house. He found it ironic that people would envy those living in it when reality, the people in the house were miserable spoiled fucks who HATED each other.

Mymoustache

@Dave J.: I am reminded of one of my father's customers from many years back (my dad sold tires to coal mines in KY). We went to see one of the bigwigs, who was worth many millions of dollars. He lived wayyy back in the hollers in Kentucky in a manufactured home (trailer) and his wife proudly showed us their prized possession: a big ol' diamond sitting on velvet in a glass box on the mantel. It's not like it had any emotional meaning or symbolism for them, they just liked how it looked.

jaxdesert

@Oxycontinmoron: The dining room looks like a compost heap puked.

itsmyisland

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: seriously though. you'd have to spend 100 million to rip everything out and redecorate the whole place.

jjb2000

@scouts honor: ha! my favorite comment.

jjb2000

If I had all the money in the world, I would never spend that much on a house that large. She should donate the whole thing to the city & turn it into a no-kill animal shelter.

Lumos

@LuluFimbria: We're you in love with her brother and your father Aaron's chauffer?

Turncoat

I humbly offer my services as a house stager; our business could use the work and that monstrosity could use the help.

Good gawd - how many vats of antique white paint did they consume? I bet every damned lampshade in there is pleated.

Ohhhhh, I've TOTALLY been inside that house, back in the late 80s/early 90's when I was bffs with a young Tori. We'd go through her infinite collection of Barbies and dream of someday being on TV.

And by THAT I mean my family would often get up when it was still dark outside to drop my dad off at this godforsaken mansion because he was one of the laborers in the construction team. We only had one run-down car that my parents had to share to get to their 15 hour day manual labor jobs.

nothing beats being a poor immigrant youth, bitches! You can only go up from there.

Even at 8 years old, i remember thinking this was the most ridiculous and unnecessary monstrosity I had ever seen in my short life.

If I remember correctly Brad and Angelina recently bought a house in France for around $600,000.000. Ms. Spellings house is something of a dump in comparison.
Maybe she will be able to offload it in a short-sale?

@LuluFimbria: It obviously hasn't been updated since then! You were a smart kid.

@Turncoat: yes! how did you know. My father sent me away to Paris for two years, and I returned an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, I found that I has captured Tori's brother's attention, but just as I did, I found myself falling in love with Linus, Tori's older, wonkier-eyed half-brother.

She could hope for a flood - nope, it's high ground. A fire - friction fires (insurance policy rubbing up against the mortgage) are known to happen. An earthquake is her best bet - fires get investigated too thoroughly.

sls67

God, that place looks so damn sterile.

Don't worry. The Scientologists will snap it up eventually.

@dinergirl: It looks like a giant rental.

@Banjo-Sea Kitten:

Yeah. An obscenely expensive house which she furnished by shopping yard sales keeping in mind her chosen color palette: poop brown. The dining room, heaven forbid..I 've eaten in chain restaurants done out in better taste. Those vines and flowers...help the wallpaper's choking me.

@MyNameIsChris:
that's no condo....that's a space station

raygun21

@gerbilsoutofexile...is cheap and easy: That's a very positive and non-judgmental comment. You are a very supportive person. Have you ever considered becoming flying buttress?

I seem to remember Joan Didion, maybe in After Henry, saying that Candy Spelling ordered Aaron Spelling to tear down part of the house that was already built, to lower the foundation and then to begin work anew because there was a department store visible from the house. I could be wrong about that though.

i'm a bottle

Beige and vulgar, just like its owner.

BookishLookish

@Smitros: Yes, exactly. I suspect that if the Spellings had better taste Aaron would not have been able to grind out the solidly profitable product (always on time and under budget) the way he did.

Back in the Golden Age of Hollywood one studio owner reportedly sent out a telegram to everyone, cast and crew, involved in one particular film. It read: "Forget art. Make money." The studio head explained that he had wanted to use a stronger word than "forget," but Western Union said no.

@Smooth Operator: Candy Spelling was born and raised in Fargo!

@Smooth Operator: this is what Richie Rich's house would look like!

@Smooth Operator: thats what i was thinking. the quality of the wood and furniture are what you would expect at a hotel or a corporate event center. blah.

@saythatscool is totes zombies: Isn't that amazing. I was just thinking that the quality of the wood and furniture are what you would expect at a hotel or a corporate event center.

Blah.

Wow... the words "hideous" and "tacky" don't even begin to describe the horror.

Barbarella

@howdybeep (runs with monkey wrenches): The only room that looks acceptable is the 'library' in the first image, but I'd bet any amount that if you try to pull a book out you'll find all of the spines are connected--and the Lladro salt and pepper shaker collection can be found stored right behind.

@saintjim: thats what i was thinking. the quality of the wood and furniture are what you would expect at a hotel or a corporate event center. blah.

@LuluFimbria: Well, given that the house has an uncountable number of rooms and that it has 'evolved', the only obvious explanation is that it's, well, alive. Did it try to eat your father or any of the other workers, that you can recall, so that it could grow and grow? Or did it go after little girls in pretty flowered dresses like perhaps yourself?

I actually think I see a ghost in a pink track suit in images 7 & 9.

The plain-looking toilet is so anticlimactic in that rococo bathroom. Wasn't the one that John Thain wanted to get available?

@Soy Bomb: Actually the top 2 penthouse floors. The entire floors. I hate that the LA Times regularly reports on this "story." And that I regularly read it, mouth agape each time.

DreamingInGreen

@saythatscool is totes zombies: K. You win.

@Soy Bomb: Ahhhh ok. My brain feels better now. Also, that is possibly the tackiest $150 mil house I've ever seen pictures of.

MyNameIsChris

@rahelio: the gift wrapping room doubles as the giftwrapping fetish room. A black bow on every ass.

dc garage shooter

The Eighties live!!

forwardmotion

She could donate it to the state like Xanadu. Or turn it into a community center or homeless shelter; maybe for battered women and children. Even though we don't know how many rooms, I think there are enough to really make a dent in the homeless population.

hellcat

You know you're in trouble when bringing in some decoupage and a little Holly Hobby actually improves the decor of a house.

These pictures literally gave me vertigo and I am a straight man! What chance do people in the know have?!?!?

I'll trade you a two bed/one bath, 1200 square foot bungalow in Burbank for it. That's my final offer.

dinalohan

In my opinion, anyone who'd sign up for that joint's tax bill should add a Russian roulette room.

SteveManiac

@Treeless: I was just thinking about the forced, awkward 'tastings' that must have taken place in that 'cellar'. All two of them.

Krashstar

@jjb2000: She's a real Kit Kat.

Krashstar

@saythatscool is totes zombies:

Too funny

During the dusk of Lord Spelling's life, with furrowed brow and a spirit of disquietude, he could be found aimlessly roaming the regal halls of his stately manor.

If one could discern the hushed and fevered words that escaped his trembling lips it would have stripped bare a sinister family secret.

For the Doll's insatiable lust for blood would not go unappeased.

And the pile of rotting housekeepers and gardeners in the basement was not getting any smaller.

Hahahahah. I'm putting your comment on my twitter if you don't mind. You are hilarious.

Lex

Lex Gable

"Spelling told The Associated Press that she let her dog Madison, a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier, help pick out the best real estate agent for the task. She had her security bring the dog into the room every time she met one of the candidate agents and watched how the dog reacted. If Madison didn't like them, Spelling crossed them off the list. "

Apparently, the same rigorous method was use to hire decorators and architects. Oh, and the security.

Krashstar

This reminds me of a Richie Rich comic I read many years ago as a kid, when RR came across a construction crew who's job it was to add new rooms to the Rich Mansion. They were never told to quit (in fact, they were completely forgotten about long ago), so they just kept adding in more rooms day after day, year after year.

MelvinaDawgin

If it were be, I'd buy the mansion and turn it into condos.

@Saxon 212: are you shitting us?

If less is more, just think how much more more will be! - Frasier Crane

Amazing how many envious people are so fast to jump on the she has no taste band wagon. The woman did it the way she wanted and was happy with her lifestyle, she had what most of you losers didn't-the resources to do things the way she wanted!
Candy I would take you on a fishing trip any day.

Tom Moench

@dwtnguy:

It was this special"room" that blew me away. Now I have this full tacky insanity to absorb.

Is this person human?

e.varden

@Tom Moench:

Your kidding, right?

I am gob-stopped. All I can say is "Oh Jeez!".

e.varden

@Dave J.: " Class" is so dated though!

jrhys

they did not even bother to buy nice couches...

oblomova

I'm confused how any building can be 57,000 square feet and be zoned as RESIDENTIAL!!!

Also? The ugly wood furniture peppered all over the house? Yeah, my parents had the same stuff back in 85. Saaaweeeeet!

ShortStaK

Why oh why do rich people get to have all that money and absolutely no taste. As if a (terribly tacky) hotel is some sort of standard for making a home

@Tom Moench: "...she had what most of you losers didn't-the resources to do things the way she wanted!"

Umm... so you're praising her for marrying rich? Brava, Candy!

@What I Meant Was...: I think even that would be a tough sell in the current real estate market. Plus, she probably has some kind of clause against it already written.

@hellcat: I was going to say that the tax deduction for donating a property worth over $100m would probably go a long way towards paying for a $17m condo... then I scrolled up and realized that I'd misread and the condo she bought was actually $47m. Ugh. Rich people.

Still, that would be a pretty kickass tax deduction. Not that she needs the money.

@Lucille van Pelt:

PRINCESS MOMBI!

@Krashstar: That's no cellar. It was Aaron Spelling's panic room, for when the Candy/Tori sniping became too much.

@miss melis: Truth be told, I would actually make into afforable housing, but I think the residents would be "less than happy," to put it mildly. But yeah, they way the market is, I doubt condos would be a good sell, and if she has a clause.

@shanesongs: I think it's mostly "new money" that does that. I don't know if Aaron or Candy came from a wealthy background before, but it seems to me that newer wealth has that tacky decor.

@Krashstar: I think this is also how Candy decided she didn't like Tori too.

Rey