The famed Spelling Manor is back on the market less than three years after the California estate was purchased for $120 million – this time with a raised price tag of $165 million.
The 56,000-square-foot Holmby Hills French chateau-style mega-mansion, originally built in 1990 for late TV producer Aaron Spelling and his wife, Candy, holds the record for the largest home in LA and is among the largest single-family homes in the country, measuring more than 1,500-feet larger than the White House.
The mansion features a foyer with 30-foot ceilings, a statement chandelier and an imperial staircase with wrought-iron railings, and includes a formal dining room with a table for 22 guests, a sunroom surrounded by French doors leading to the pool, a wine cellar, bowling lanes, tasting room and a 7,500-square-foot master suite, Mansion Global reported.
The 14-bedroom, 27-bathroom residence ‘offers every amenity imaginable, from bowling alleys to beauty salons, rolling lawns to rose gardens, a legendary library to professional screening room,’ according to the listing by Jeff Hyland and Drew Fenton of Hilton & Hyland.
Outside on the property’s roughly five acres, is a swimming pool, tennis court, formal gardens and a circular motor court with a fountain and space to park 100 cars, Hilton said.
The home is back on the market after it sold for $120 million in 2019 by Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone to an unknown Saudi Arabian buyer.
At the time, The Manor was the most expensive home ever sold in LA County, a record recently broken by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos when he shelled out $165 million for a 13,600-square-foot Georgian-style mansion in Beverly Hills in February 2020.
Petra, the daughter of billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, purchased the mansion from Candy for $85 million in 2011 and gave The Manor an eccentric makeover, overhauling many of its staggering 123 rooms – even adding a nightclub in the basement and several large tanks filled with exotic fish.
She swapped out the former wrapping rooms for a hair salon and massage parlor and created a beauty salon in the room where the wife of the Charlie’s Angels producer housed her enormous china doll collection, Mansion Global reported.
But Ecclestone did not do a complete overhaul of The Manor, preserving Aaron Spelling’s film editing room behind the screen of the movie theater, complete with his hand-written notes.
The property was built in 1990 for Spelling’s wife, Candy, now 76, and later given the nickname ‘Candyland’ in tribute.
During the Spellings’ years of ownership, the mansion had a room dedicated to Candy’s vintage doll collection, a bowling alley, a room dedicated specifically to cutting flowers and even an entire climate-controlled chamber for storing silver.
The house also included a barbershop, multiple gift-wrapping rooms, and a French wine and cheese room, complete with French music and sidewalk tables.
Aaron Spelling, also famed for producing Beverly Hilly 90210, which starred his daughter Tori, and The Love Boat, died at The Manor on June 23, 2006. He collapsed after suffering a stroke and died from complications five days later.
