Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Spelling D-o-w-n-s-i-z-e


Candy Spelling, widow of TV producer Aaron Spelling, has decided to downsize her living quarters. Her current shack (see picture) sits on 6 acres in the modest Holmby Hills neighborhood with 11 bedrooms with 16 bathrooms and amenities such as a bowling alley, doll museum and gift-wrapping room. It's the largest home in Los Angeles County at 56,000 square feet. I don't have a picture of her new place as it is under construction. It's a condo atop a Century City tower and takes up two stories and only 16,500 square feet. She'll pay 47 million for the place or just over $2,800 a square foot. (That's a Hollywood record.) Her new digs will have a living room with two working fireplaces, a dining room for 25 guests, a 4,000-square-foot master bedroom suite and a conservatory with a rose garden, as well as a swimming pool and deck.
And we wonder why the rest of the world hates us.