The Spelling mansion in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles was recently listed for around $150 million. © Mark J. Terrill/AP file photo
Candy Spelling, the widow of television producer Aaron Spelling, is offering her Los Angeles mansion for $150 million — apparently the most expensive home for sale in the U.S.
Aaron Spelling, who produced a string of hits over five decades from "Charlie's Angels" to "Beverly Hills, 90210," died at the 123-room house in 2006 at age 83. Last year, his widow, a former model, said she planned to "downsize" to a $47 million condominium on the top two floors of a building in the Century City district. At that time, it was reported that she was looking at offers for her house in the $150 million range.
The 57,000-square-foot house, dubbed "the Manor" and featured on guided tours of Hollywood mansions, includes a bowling alley, a beauty salon, a gift-wrapping room and a screening room where the screen rises out of the floor and paintings move up to reveal the projector.
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The Spellings bought the nearly five-acre property — once the home of Bing Crosby — in the early 1980s, tore down the house and rebuilt. When completed in 1991 it was considered the largest home in Los Angeles by far. Sally Forster Jones of Coldwell Banker Previews has the listing together with Jeffrey Hyland and Rick Hilton, both of Hilton & Hyland/Christie's Great Estates.
Recent multimillion-dollar real-estate sales include investor Ron Baron's purchase of 40 acres of vacant land in East Hampton, N.Y., for $103 million, and Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., home, which sold for $95 million to a Russian billionaire.
Since Candy Spelling announced her planned move to Century City, she's fielded roughly a dozen calls from qualified buyers, including some hotel investors, estimates Stephen Goldberg, her attorney. She didn't consider lowering the price. "The ones who could afford it three years ago, can still afford it today," he says. $150 million "is not a lot."
By Christina S.N. Lewis, The Wall Street Journal
