Tori Spelling is looking back at her life in her late father's enormous mansion in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles. The actress has some fascinating insight into what it was like being a teenager in sprawling estate.«The biggest misconception is that I grew up in the house,» Tori shared on a new episode of her podcast . «We moved there when I was like 17.
So I spent like two years there.»The subject of the famous mansion — once referred to as Candyland — came up because of the recent news that the mansion is currently up for sale for an astounding $165 million.Tori's parents — TV icon Aaron Spelling and wife Candy Spelling — constructed the 56,000-square foot home in 1991.
Candy later sold in 2011 for $85 million, and it was then sold again in 2019 for nearly $120 million. «I never saw every room, and I lived there for two years,» Spelling admitted to co-star Jennie Garth, adding, «There was a wing that all of my mom's staff lived in.»That being said, Tori admitted it still felt like home, in a way. «It didn't feel like a hotel, I mean it was warm,» she recalled. «Or as warm as a 56,000-square foot mansion can be.»Famously the mansion included a full-sized bowling alley, rooms for flower cutting and gift-wrapping, a barbershop, an arcade and much more.While was why it would have been a great place to throw massive parties on a routine basis.
However, despite the potential, Tori said her mom «only three like three two or three parties.»«The first party, and one of her only parties, was for Prince Charles,» she recalled.
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