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-Cp
03-27-2009, 11:59 AM
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9765EUG0&show_article=1

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The French chateau-style mansion has 56,500 square feet of space on more than 4.6 acres and is the largest home in Los Angeles County. Among the neighbors are the Los Angeles Country Club and, not too far away, the Playboy Mansion.

The three-story mansion, built in 1991, is gated and features a winding driveway that leads up to the three-story house, which includes ceilings that reach up to 30 feet high, Jones said.

While some published reports put the tally of rooms in the mansion at well past 100, Jones couldn't provide an exact count.

Spelling says she doesn't know either.

"You're really asking the wrong person," Spelling jokes. "There's a lot. (The house) has evolved and I actually haven't gone around and counted."

The Spellings found no shortage of uses for the many rooms in the mansion, however.

There's a bowling alley, wine cellar, wine tasting room, gift-wrapping room, a humidity-controlled silver storage room, China room, library, gym and media room, among many others.

The screening room is one of Spelling's favorites.

"I had some really wonderful times entertaining in that room," she said. "We showed movies and I still do."

The room features a movie projection system that automatically comes up from the floor at the same time that shades extend over the windows. It's an idea that came to Candy Spelling in dream as she sought to avoid having a projection screen open all the time.

"I wanted Aaron to have the best projection room anyone had ever seen, and the biggest, so I came with this solution, not realizing that we had to excavate a lot of dirt to get down that low, to have a special room that housed the screen that was totally dust free," said Spelling, 63.

The Spellings also finished the 17,000 square-foot attic that includes a barber shop and beauty salon.

The home also includes a wing for service staff, including a kitchen and seven bedrooms, and five fireplaces and four wet bars.

Lavish features also can be found outside the house, including a tennis court, fountains, a waterfall, a pool and spa, a reflection pool and a pool house with a kitchen, and 16 car ports.

The estate also boasts an 18th Century-style garden, a rooftop rose garden and a citrus orchard.

Prospective buyers won't have to worry much about parking when they host big parties. The property includes a winding motor court with space for more than 100 cars.

Yurt
03-27-2009, 12:32 PM
i've directed my agent to purchase it later today.

yours truly,

jagger

Mr. P
03-27-2009, 12:43 PM
Few could even afford the up-keep much less the mortgage payment.

They should make it a tourist place like the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina.

Trigg
03-27-2009, 01:04 PM
At least the rooms all have a purpose. I've always said, I needed a gift wrapping room.


I guess you have to be creative with 56,5000 thousand square feet to fill.

-Cp
03-27-2009, 01:55 PM
Few could even afford the up-keep much less the mortgage payment.

They should make it a tourist place like the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina.

I'm pretty sure that anyone who can buy a home for that price wouldn't have a mortgage...

Mr. P
03-27-2009, 02:15 PM
I'm pretty sure that anyone who can buy a home for that price wouldn't have a mortgage...

I'm sure that anyone that would pay cash in that amount is a financial MORON.