The Manor (Los Angeles)
Aaron Spelling (the television producer of series including Dynasty, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, 7th Heaven, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed) built it as his private residence.[1] Candy and interior designer Robert Dally spent eight years buying furnishings from England, Italy, and France, including all of the house's fireplaces, chandeliers, and sconces.[6] After finally making the decision to sell in 2009,[1] in the summer of 2011, five years after her husband's death, Candy Spelling put the estate up for sale, calling it the "greatest entertainment house ever" with a "kitchen where you can cook for two or 800".[7][14] After its completion, Los Angeles Times architecture critic Sam Hall Kaplan panned the home as one of the region's worst built in the 1980s.[5] In April 1988, the Los Angeles Times asked:[5] 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?[18] In 2006, the house was discussed in Aaron's obituary: Mr. Spelling himself, though a self-effacing and extremely shy man in private, put his own vast wealth on display in the late 1980s when he and his wife, Candy, supervised the construction of their home in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles.