Once upon a time, in a land known as 90210, Tori Spelling was growing up in the second largest house by official living space in the Los Angeles metropolitan area — larger than the White House, and the Taj Mahal.
The star of Beverly Hills, 90210 is the daughter of the late Aaron Spelling and his wife Candy Spelling. Her father was one of the most prolific television producers in American television history, having produced more than 3,000 hours of television, including plenty featuring his daughter.
Spelling, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants (who changed their last name from Sperling), got his start in Hollywood as an actor in the early 1950s, during which he also worked as a script writer and gained experience as a producer. He produced his first success, the detective series Burke's Law, while working for Four Star Television in the early 1960s, becoming a pioneer of the multiple guest star format.
© Getty ImagesHe eventually founded his own production companies, and besides Beverly Hills, 90210, he is also the producer behind hits such as The Mod Squad, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, Melrose Place, 7th Heaven, and Charmed, among others.
In 1968, he married Tori's mother, Carole Gene "Candy" Spelling (née Marer), when he was 45 and she was 23, and in addition to Tori (b. 1973), the pair welcomed son Randy Spelling in 1978.
© Getty ImagesIn 1983, Spelling bought a nearly five-acre property that housed Bing Crosby's former Los Angeles mansion, demolishing it to make way for his 56,000-square feet, 123-room mansion dubbed The Manor.
Below, everything to know about the home, from its eye-popping features to the famous hands it has gone through.
© Getty ImagesThe building of Los Angeles county's second largest home
Construction for The Manor began in 1986 after razing Crosby's home, which was built in 1932 by Gordon Kaufmann. For five years, over 150 workers a day helped build the mansion, using over 500 tons of steel, and it was completed in 1991.
During that time, Candy has said she lived and breathed planning for the home; she along with interior designer Robert Dally spent eight years buying furniture from England, Italy, and France, including all of the house's fireplaces, chandeliers, and sconces.
During and after construction, the palatial estate was largely criticized by both fellow wealthy residents of the Holmby Hills neighborhood and architects alike, with Los Angeles Times architecture critic Sam Hall Kaplan slamming it as one of the worst homes of the 1980s.
"What's bigger than a football field, smaller than Hearst Castle, has a bowling alley and an entire floor of closets, and is making some people very annoyed? Aaron and Candy Spelling's 56,500-square-foot mansion in Holmby Hills," reads another 1988 Los Angeles Times article. "The French chateau, under construction now for two years, has turned the corner of Mapleton and Club View drives into a gawker's paradise. Sprawled across six acres on what once was the Bing Crosby estate, the house dwarfs the sizable mansions on the block and looms large over tranquil Holmby Park near Wilshire Boulevard."
© Getty ImagesA room for everything
The house, which spans 56,000 square feet and boasts 123 rooms (including 27 bathrooms and 14 bedrooms) is indeed indisputably ostentatious. The grand foyer, inspired by the interior of the famed house in Gone with the Wind, is bedecked with black and white marble flooring. Visitors are welcomed by a crystal floating castle chandelier and a sweeping double staircase made of a single piece of metal from Texas.
Among the many rooms were one for Candy's antique doll collection, which housed over 1,000 dolls, a gift-wrapping room and flower-cutting room, a humidity-controlled room for storing silver, a solarium, a wine cellar, a bowling alley in the basement, a game room, an ice rink, a gym, a barbershop, a beauty salon, and a tanning room, plus an entire wing devoted to Candy's wardrobe.
There was also a movie theater with 20 custom theater seats spread over two tiers with carpeted flooring, and Spelling's office, which had hundreds of leather-bound scripts lining the walls.
© Getty ImagesThe master suite itself was 7,000 square feet, and included a kitchen, living room, and his and hers walk-in closets and bathrooms. To house their staff, the Spellings had a service wing with five maids' bedrooms and two butlers' suites, one of which had a kitchenette.
The residence's grounds are no less impressive. A driveway leads to a circular granite motor court that can accommodate 100 vehicles, with 16 carports, and the yard previously featured a resort-like pool, citrus orchard, a vegetable garden, koi pond and rose gardens. The estate was originally also going to feature a petting zoo for Tori, but by the time construction was finished she was already 17, a bit too old for the concept.
© Getty ImagesCandy described the sprawling mansion to the LA Times as the "greatest entertainment house ever," with a gigantic kitchen "where you can cook for two or 800."
Spelling died at the Manor in June 2006, aged 83, from complications of a stroke he suffered five days prior. He had an estimated net worth of $500 to $600 million at the time of his death, and in 2009, he was ranked by Forbes the 11th-highest-earning deceased celebrity for that year.
© Getty ImagesThe famous people who have partied and lived there over the years
The house, while it belonged to the Spellings and afterwards, has had some pretty major guests and residents alike. Reminiscing about the parties she once hosted, Candy told the LA Times: "All the stars came through … Prince Rainier, King Charles, Jackie Kennedy — every star from every one of Aaron's shows."
The list of people who have bought the home is just as starry. From 2011 to 2016, Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone and her husband James Stunt owned it, after which it was listed by Paris Hilton's real estate mogul father Rick Hilton. Beyoncé andJay-Z were reported to have gone to see it when it was for sale, and it is currently owned by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
© InstagramPassing the reins
The Manor has some unsteady history in the market. It was first sold to Petra in 2011 for $85 million, two years after Candy first listed it for $150 million, making it the most expensive residential listing in the U.S at the time. After sitting on-and-off the market for three years, it sold to an anonymous buyer for almost $120 million in 2019, having dropped from its original price, $200 million.
Google CEO Schmidt is its latest owner, having purchased it for $110 million in August 2025.
© FilmMagicThe renovations
Petra completely overhauled the home upon purchasing it with the help of interior designer Gavin Brodin, spending $20 million to do so; it reportedly took approximately 500 workers nine weeks to install all of her new decorations and furniture.
Among the changes were swapping out a living room's original bookcases for two aquariums and bar, and Candy's doll room was converted into a spa, featuring a massage parlor, three hair stations and two manicure-pedicure chairs. The gift-wrapping room was changed into an office, and the basement was redesigned into a nightclub complete with a bar, pool room, and revamped bowling alley.
