D-Listed, as usual, described it the best:

http://dlisted.com/node/32271

Mother Of The Century

Candy and Tori Spelling pretty much pull out their pubic hairs whenever they think of each other. That's no secret. But Candy has upped her [!@#$%^&*] game by blaming Tori for Aaron Spelling's death.

While whoring out her book on 94.7 WMAS-FM in Massachusetts today, Candy oinked, "My daughter one day decided that she wasn't speaking to my husband, myself and my son, and that's how it's continued for the last, oh gosh, four or five years. And it was sad, that's what killed my husband, actually. He just didn't want to live after that. He had just done everything he could possibly do for his daughter, and she wanted no part of him once he couldn't do anything for her."

Aaron died in 2006 at the age 83. Yeah, the fact that he was older than oatmeal had nothing to do with his death. Tori's absence obviously did him in.

After saying all that, Porky Pig's long-lost twin sister still doesn't understand why her daughter uses her picture as a dart board. Candy said, "I've always been trying to work on the relationship. I don’t know what the anger is."

Methinks Candy needs to pay a little visit to her surgeon so that he can loosen her face a bitch (typo and it stays) and let it breathe. The tightness is effing with the part of her brain that controls common sense.

Edited May 29, 200916 yr by Cat

<span style="font-size:120%;">In case you've never heard of Greene, here are the facts: he is a 53-year-old real-estate investor who lives in a 40,000 sq ft Beverly Hills mansion called Palazzo di Amore. He owns three aeroplanes and a yacht, and Mike Tyson was best man at his $1 million wedding.

But the most important thing to know about Greene is that he found a way to bet in advance that America's property market would implode. How? By trading in the extraordinarily complex area of “asset-backed credit default swaps”. Greene essentially made insurance payments that guaranteeed him a huge payout if mortgage companies ever defaulted on their loans. And how much did he make? In six months, about $500 million. That's $2.8 million a day. Yes, meet Mr Unpopular of Hollywood, 2008. And there's more: Greene reportedly got the idea from his friend John Paulson, who has done exactly the same thing, only with slightly different results: he made $4 billion in the past six months. That's $22 million per day.

These trades are surely right up there with George Soros's mugging of the pound on Black Wednesday, 15 years ago. But why didn't Paulson take the ultimate unpopularity title? Because he lives on the East Coast, of course. But Greene shouldn't take it too hard. After all, when Hollywood gets back to work, there will almost certainly be a screenplay in the works about the great property bubble of the past five years.

Come to think of it, Gordon Gekko is supposedly returning for a sequel of Wall Street. Perhaps they can reincarnate him from a Wall Street arbitrageur to a Beverly Hills real-estate investor. And how flattering would that be? As long, that is, as Tom Cruise doesn't get the part.

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What's confusing me about this photo is the hillsides around the estate. At the link you posted above, it seems like there are homes right below the area that appears to have been "scalped". Wouldn't this be a mudslide issue, and sediment and runoff issues on the properties down the hill?

Houses are all around it (below). It's apparently finished and Jeff Greene and his wife Mei Sze lived there, CNBC even filmed the interiors in 2008 (only some, Mei Sze's controlled what was being shot), but the videos are offline now. Then it was listed for lease, it even had its own website, it's $250,000 per month. It looks dreary.

In other (two months old) news, hotel queen Leona Helmsley's Connecticut Jacobean-style palace, Dunnellen Hall, sold with a 72% discount, LOL. It's a 40-acres of land with a manor of almost 22,000 square feet. HQ pics:

http://www.businessi...ur-helicopter-1

Edited December 8, 201014 yr by Sylph

More stairway clones:

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/09/new_to_market_richard_landrydesigned_chateau.php?o=11#chateau-3

http://tours5.vht.com/Viewer/PhotoGallery.aspx?ListingID=1190169&Style=IDX

In other (two months old) news, hotel queen Leona Helmsley's Connecticut Jacobean-style palace, Dunnellen Hall, sold with a 72% discount, LOL. It's a 40-acres of land with a manor of almost 22,000 square feet. HQ pics:

http://www.businessi...ur-helicopter-1

72% discount? I must chortle at this. There are aspects of Leona's estate that are nice, others badly done and tacky. the grounds as a whole look LOVELY, at least from the air... of course, this is in Conncecticut, not the barren wasteland that is Southern California, so you can have trees and grass and they can thrive and look GOOD. But once again, the driveway comes right up to the front door. This simply mystifies me, as virtually nobody around here does that.. and i've seen the estates of Ewing Kaufman (owner of the Kansas City Royals) and the Hall family (Owners of Hallmark) closeup. I like the brown living room in Leona's house... the green living room would be ok if it were a different shade of green. The study is GHASTLY. The landscape lighting looks nice, however. I like the staircase itself, and the red carpeting, but everything around it is far too TAUPE. I realize that those walls in her foyer and entryway areas are some type of stone, but the size and way they are cut makes them look like concrete block... just sayin. And as far as that table in the foyer, who ever thought that three heads of broccoli in terra cotta pots is decorative?

Edited December 11, 201014 yr by alphanguy74

Leona Helmsley was an evil old whore. I hope whoever bought the house bulldozes it. She'd be rolling in her grave.

Well, it's one of very, very few surviving old-style estates in Greenwich. I hate it, but I think alphanguy makes some good points. The colours are horrid: that pool-bottom turquoise just isn't working. Same for the fountain and that tarmac, asphalt or whatever it is that surrounds it.

And Leona didn't build it – it was a gift from one industrialist to his daughter.

Alphanguy, the Hall family live in Mission Hills, right? And Kauffman's heirs?

Edited December 8, 201014 yr by Sylph

Well, it's one of very, very few surviving old-style estates in Greenwich. I hate it, but I think alphanguy makes some good points. The colours are horrid: that pool-bottom turquoise just isn't working. Same for the fountain and that tarmac, asphalt or whatever it is that surrounds it.

And Leona didn't build it – it was a gift from one industrialist to his daughter.

Alphanguy, the Hall family live in Mission Hills, right? And Kauffman's heirs?

Yes... Mission Hills is a beautiful place. It's what I refer to as "Old Money". When I worked as assistant manager at Soil Service Garden Center, we delivered to both estates many times. The Hall family always had us save the LARGEST christmas tree off the truck for them, and we delivered, set up, and strung the lights on it for them. Soil Service pretty much had all the business from Mission hills, as it was the only garden center left in close proximity. All the others moved out to suburbia and their McMansions. Ewing Kauffman had his own private gardener, and the gardener would simply come to the store, pick out whatever he needed, and we delivered it. The owner of Soil service was too damn cheap to buy a new dump truck (This dump truck was a 1963 model, and this was 1992)and one day when I delivered a load of bark mulch to Ewing Kauffman's estate, the truck wouldn't start and had to be towed away. THEN, he finally bought a new one after that embarrassment. Both Ewing and Muriel were really lovely people, not snobby like one might think. And as far as that driveway of Leona's... it seems to be asphalt, or blacktop as we call it around here. And it's my favorite material for a driveway. I like it because the darkness receeds from the eye, and lets the house and landscaping take center stage, plus it has the added benefit of the ice and snow melting off quickly when sunshine hits it. but in her case, when you have a such a large amount of it, with no lawn or shrubbery to buffer it, it just becomes this opressive expanse of foreboding darkness, it looks so industrial. That's the main thing many of these homes are lacking, and that is WARMTH.

Edited December 11, 201014 yr by alphanguy74

<span style="font-size:105%;">Lovely story, alphan. So Kauffmans too lived in Mission Hills? Architecturally, are both mansions something remarkable or perhaps nothing special?

I love asphalt too, but somehow it doesn't mash well with this sort of house and surroundings.

But thanks to Yo' Mama, I found a house whose interiors (and exteriors and the garden) I like – Sloane House. It's on Old Church Street in Chelsea, London and Bernie's daughter is apparently buying it. For a whopping £60m or around $100m. I really like it! </span>

Edited December 11, 201014 yr by Sylph

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I like the cold Asa Buchanan stone foyer and further soapy points for that office with the tiger chairs and lion picture and those cavernous Adam Chandler tunnels leading to that wine cellar where it looks like Leones and a group of Shriners sacrificed babies and planned world domination while sipping Malbec.

Leona is buried a couple of towns over in Sleepy Hollow. A friend of ours has family buried there and she took a cell phone pic of Leona's news-making $$$ mausoleum with its stained glass window of the New York skyline. No doubt the pampered pooch will be laid to rest there with her and Harry.

And Sloane House?

The has been much brouhaha and ballyhoo the last year or so about Tinseltown widow Candy Spelling downsizing from The Manor, her absurdly named 55,000 square foot mega-mansion in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, and into a 16,000-ish square foot doo-plex penthouse at The Century, a newly completed 140-unit tower designed by Robert A.M. Stern in Century City.

The first leaked news indicated that Miz Spelling had signed contracts for somewhere in the $47,000,000 range but according to more recent reports on Curbed LA she paid a significantly less but still mind number $35,000,000.

The lower price, according to some PR flack for the building, reflects a slightly smaller final build out size for the penthouse as well as a concession by the developer due to the dismal economy and still very soft real estate market.

And Sloane House?

I think it's a lovely property, reminds me of some of the grande homes in Georgetown. The interior is too white for my liking, but that could of course be fixed.

I can hardly wait to see pics of Candy's Century City duplex complete with rose garden, I read about it so long ago I don't even know if the building's completed or not. Do you know? I hope the interior looks nothing like The Manor, I'd like to see a plush mod layout.

Speaking of L.A. condos, I'd still like to see that spread in Hello! on Joan's Sierra Towers unit. I'd like to see her neighbor Diahann Carroll's as well.

I read up on the towers several months ago and found it interesting how one guy handles all of the real estate transactions there and the units are almost always gutted and refitted whenever anyone moves in. Crazy.