The Manor (Los Angeles)

The Spellings purchased the former Bing Crosby Estate in 1983, razing the mansion that previously occupied the site, After finally making the decision to sell in 2009, After a three-week design period, it took approximately 500 workers nine weeks to install the new furnishings Ecclestone had chosen. In 2016, she decided to sell the property, and it was on and off the market for three years. In October 2016, The Manor was relisted with Rick Hilton and David Kramer of Hilton & Hyland with an asking price of $200 million. In February 2017, it was reported that singer Beyoncé and her husband Hip-hop mogul Jay Z had secretly visited it. In June 2019, it sold for $119.7 million, a new California record. Originally priced at $200 million, it was eventually dropped to $160 million, then sold in early July 2019 for a record $120 million to anonymous buyer In early August 2025, former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, purchased the manor for $110 million However, this purchase would again be a discount purchase, being less than the initial $137.5 million offered for the mansion. ==Description==

The Manor is a French chateau-style mansion with 123 rooms (27 bathrooms and 14 bedrooms) on 4.68 acres of land. When first built, it included a screening room, a room for Candy's antique doll collection, gift-wrapping and flower-cutting rooms, a barbershop, a humidity-controlled storage room, four two-car garages, a tennis court, and a pool. Other notable features include two walk-in closets, a gigantic kitchen, a driveway to a circular granite motor court, a solarium, a wine cellar, a basement bowling alley and game room, a gym and tanning rooms. Features • The grand foyer has a monochrome colour scheme with a sweeping double staircase, black and white marble flooring, a crystal floating castle chandelier and Renaissance-style paintings. • The formal living room is a vast white-on-white space with three separate seating areas, an open marble fireplace and a grand piano. • The second living room is less formal and is decorated in a cool grey palette. The original bookcases have been swapped for two aquariums and a bar. It has twin French doors. • The formal dining room has a monochrome colour scheme. A 20-seater dining table sits below a low-hanging crystal chandelier crowned by a black ceiling rose. French doors lead to the expansive gardens. • The master suite has of living space and includes a kitchen, a living room, his and hers closets and bathrooms and a bedroom decorated in black, white and grey. • A massive bathroom with a soaking tub, cove ceiling and three wall-length vanity mirrors makes up just one of the home’s 27 bathrooms. The beauty salon, which once housed Candy Spelling's doll collection, has a monochromatic colour scheme. • The cinema has 20 custom theatre seats spread over two tiers with carpeted flooring, a coffered ceiling and a movie screen that rises from the floor. The basement is designed to resemble a nightclub with a bar, a pool room and a two-lane bowling alley. ==Reception and legacy==

After its completion, Los Angeles Times architecture critic Sam Hall Kaplan panned the home as one of the region's worst built in the 1980s. At the time of its construction, the project spawned a controversy over its massive size and ostentatious architecture. including these lyrics: See Candy's jewels, see Aaron's money, Aaron doesn't think being picked on is funny. See Candy's clothes, see Aaron's pad See Aaron and Candy's castle make the neighbors mad. But they're livin' in splendor high above the crowds 60,000 square feet of heaven. That's Spelling's dwelling, I said Spelling's Dwelling.... In 2011, HGTV aired a program titled Selling Spelling Manor that included a tour of the house and documented Candy's process of selling the home to Ecclestone. In 2006, the house was discussed in Aaron's obituary: Mr. Spelling himself, though a self-effacing and extremely shy man in private, put his own vast wealth on display in the late 1980s when he and his wife, Candy, supervised the construction of their home in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. The structure, which like his shows drew mostly scathing reviews, eventually contained 123 rooms over about . It was said to include a bowling alley, an ice rink and an entire wing devoted to his wife's wardrobe. == See also ==