# The Manor (Los Angeles)
**The Manor**, also known as Spelling Manor and nicknamed Candyland, is a 56,500-square-foot French chateau-style mansion at 594 South Mapleton Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, across from Holmby Park and bordering the Los Angeles Country Club.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) Built for television producer [Aaron Spelling](https://www.edgepedia.org/aaron-spelling) and his wife Candy, it was long the largest single-family home in [Los Angeles County](https://www.edgepedia.org/los-angeles-county) and remains one of the largest private residences in the United States.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) Its 2019 sale for $119.75 million set a Los Angeles County price record, and in 2025 it was bought by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy for $110 million.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) • [2](https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/ex-google-chief-eric-schmidt-pays-110-million-for-l-a-s-spelling-manor/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Location | 594 S Mapleton Drive, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, on roughly 4.7 acres bordering the Los Angeles Country Club[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) |
| Size | 56,500 square feet of living space, 1,500 square feet more than the White House; 123 rooms, 14 bedrooms, 27 bathrooms[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) • [3](https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-brief-and-garish-history-of-megamansions/) |
| Built | Construction began in 1988 on the former Bing Crosby estate; the Spellings moved in in 1991[4](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-09-re-783-story.html) |
| Architect | James Langenheim & Associates, with Candy Spelling overseeing the design and construction[4](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-09-re-783-story.html) |
| Sale history | $85 million (2011, Petra Ecclestone); $119.75 million (2019, L.A. County record); $110 million (2025, Eric and Wendy Schmidt)[5](https://www.latimes.com/la-xpm-2011-jul-15-la-fi-spelling-mansion-20110715-story.html) • [1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) • [2](https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/ex-google-chief-eric-schmidt-pays-110-million-for-l-a-s-spelling-manor/) |
| Peak asking price | $200 million in 2016, among the most expensive homes ever listed in the United States[6](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-hotprop-20161015-snap-story.html) |
| Notable amenities | One-lane bowling alley, beauty salon, screening room, multiple gift-wrapping rooms, flower-cutting room, wine and cheese room[7](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-the-manor-holmby-hills-20190530-story.html) |
## Site and construction
The Spellings bought the old [Bing Crosby](https://www.edgepedia.org/bing-crosby) estate on one of Holmby Hills' best streets in 1983 for $10.25 million and tore the existing house down.[8](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-08-tm-6821-story.html) The house they replaced had been built in 1932 to a design by Gordon Kaufmann, the architect also responsible for [Greystone Mansion](https://www.edgepedia.org/greystone-mansion).[9](https://www.velvetropes.com/celebrity-homes/spelling-manor-house-los-angeles) Neighbors were appalled by the demolition and by the scale of what followed; a 1988 Los Angeles Times report described the construction site at Mapleton and Club View drives as a gawker's paradise dwarfing the sizable mansions around it.[10](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-08-vw-1108-story.html)
The house took roughly five years to build. [Candy Spelling](https://www.edgepedia.org/candy-spelling) oversaw the design, crediting architect Jim Langenheim, interior decorator Bob Dally, and landscape consultant Phil Shipley; Shipley planted more than 60 fully grown trees on the grounds.[4](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-09-re-783-story.html) The building is W-shaped, clad in imported limestone, and was built with about 500 tons of steel.[7](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-the-manor-holmby-hills-20190530-story.html) • [11](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/video/watch/on-the-market-inside-a-165000-dollars-000-estate-bigger-than-the-taj-mahal) At completion it was reported to be the largest private home in California, a distinction later lost to larger spec mansions; [Hearst Castle](https://www.edgepedia.org/hearst-castle) in San Simeon, at 68,500 square feet, is technically larger still.[12](https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/mapped-most-expensive-home-sales-2025/) • [13](https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/spelling-manor-6-must-know-facts/)
## The Spelling years
Aaron Spelling, the producer behind [Charlie's Angels](https://www.edgepedia.org/charlies-angels), Dynasty, The Love Boat, and [Beverly Hills, 90210](https://www.edgepedia.org/beverly-hills-90210), filled the house with purpose-built rooms: a flower-cutting room, multiple gift-wrapping rooms, a barbershop, a humidity-controlled silver storage room, and a [French wine](https://www.edgepedia.org/french-wine) and cheese room furnished with sidewalk-café-style tables and chairs.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) One room housed only Candy Spelling's doll collection, and the one-lane basement bowling alley had its own shoe closet.[3](https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-brief-and-garish-history-of-megamansions/) A staff of 30 ran the property, and the motor court could park 100 vehicles.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) • [14](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-28-fi-candy28-story.html)
The house drew professional criticism as well as fascination. Los Angeles Times architecture critic Sam Hall Kaplan, in a 1989 decade-end review, listed the Spelling residence among the decade's worst projects, arguing that at 56,500 square feet it should be considered a congregate living facility in violation of Holmby Hills zoning.[15](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-31-re-43-story.html) The Spellings also sued their contractor over a leaking roof, alleging the entire roofing system needed replacement.[16](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-27-me-42750-story.html)
After Aaron Spelling died in 2006, Candy Spelling listed the house in 2009 at $150 million, then the most expensive residential listing in the United States.[14](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-28-fi-candy28-story.html) She held the price through the downturn and sold in 2011 at a 43% discount.[5](https://www.latimes.com/la-xpm-2011-jul-15-la-fi-spelling-mansion-20110715-story.html)
## Ecclestone ownership and the record sale
The buyer was [Petra Ecclestone](https://www.edgepedia.org/petra-ecclestone), the 22-year-old daughter of [Formula One](https://www.edgepedia.org/formula-one) billionaire [Bernie Ecclestone](https://www.edgepedia.org/bernie-ecclestone), who paid $85 million in an all-cash deal.[5](https://www.latimes.com/la-xpm-2011-jul-15-la-fi-spelling-mansion-20110715-story.html) She spent an estimated $15 million to $20 million on a renovation, converting the doll room into a hair salon and massage parlor and adding a black-striped marble lounge, an aquarium in the study, and a basement nightclub.[13](https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/spelling-manor-6-must-know-facts/) • [1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html)
Ecclestone first shopped the estate privately in 2014 at $150 million, then listed it publicly in 2016 at $200 million.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) The price fell to $175 million, then $160 million by 2019.[7](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-the-manor-holmby-hills-20190530-story.html) In July 2019 it sold for $119.75 million, the highest home price in Los Angeles County history at the time and the priciest sale in California, edging out a Woodside mansion that had sold for $117.5 million in 2013.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) County records showed the purchase by a California limited liability company, 594 Mapleton LLC, whose principals were never publicly identified.[17](https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2022-02-14/the-manor-an-iconic-l-a-mansion-seeks-165-million)
## Deed fraud and the Schmidt purchase
The LLC relisted the estate in 2022 at $165 million, and the asking price eventually fell to $137.5 million.[17](https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2022-02-14/the-manor-an-iconic-l-a-mansion-seeks-165-million) • [2](https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/ex-google-chief-eric-schmidt-pays-110-million-for-l-a-s-spelling-manor/) The sale was complicated by a title dispute: a couple identifying themselves as Mirga and Nicholas Phipps White recorded a deed on the property with Los Angeles County in June 2024, claiming ownership through a convoluted theory involving misappropriated Saudi funds and the disbarred attorney [Thomas Girardi](https://www.edgepedia.org/thomas-girardi). A judge dismissed their related lawsuit as fantastical, and 594 Mapleton LLC sued to have the deed declared void.[18](https://www.inman.com/2024/09/30/is-spelling-manor-the-next-mansion-to-be-hit-by-scammers/)
In late July 2025, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy bought the Manor for $110 million, tying it with a Bel-Air sale as Los Angeles County's most expensive transaction of 2025.[2](https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/ex-google-chief-eric-schmidt-pays-110-million-for-l-a-s-spelling-manor/) • [19](https://therealdeal.com/la/2025/08/01/former-google-ceo-acquires-spelling-manor-for-110m/) The Schmidts plan a significant remodel to simplify the floor plan and improve energy efficiency, intend to keep it a single-family home, and want to use it primarily to host meetings and events for Los Angeles nonprofits and cultural institutions; they plan to rename the property simply "594" after its Mapleton Drive address.[2](https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/ex-google-chief-eric-schmidt-pays-110-million-for-l-a-s-spelling-manor/)
## Place in Los Angeles real estate
[Real estate](https://www.edgepedia.org/real-estate) observers treat the Manor as the original Los Angeles giga-mansion. When it was built, residential builders could not handle a house that size, so the Spellings hired a commercial architect and a commercial builder, according to broker David Kramer.[20](https://www.kcrw.com/shows/greater-la/stories/is-la-in-a-giga-mansion-glut-2) Its 2019 sale set a benchmark that UCLA real estate professor Paul Habibi said made nine-figure asking prices elsewhere more plausible, even as he noted that buyers at that level form an extremely limited, idiosyncratic pool.[1](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html) The gap between its successive asking and sale prices, from $200 million in 2016 to $110 million in 2025, illustrates the persistent discount at the top of the Los Angeles market, where sales above $30 million have historically closed below list.[20](https://www.kcrw.com/shows/greater-la/stories/is-la-in-a-giga-mansion-glut-2)
## References
1. [Big home, big deal: The Manor in Holmby Hills sets an L.A. County price record at $119.75 million, Los Angeles Times (2019)](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-manor-holmby-hills-120-million-price-record-20190701-story.html)
2. [Ex-Google Chief Eric Schmidt Pays $110 Million for L.A.'s Spelling Manor, Realtor.com/The Wall Street Journal (2025)](https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/ex-google-chief-eric-schmidt-pays-110-million-for-l-a-s-spelling-manor/)
3. [A Brief and Garish History of Megamansions, Vice (2021)](https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-brief-and-garish-history-of-megamansions/)
4. [Settling Into 56,500 Sq. Ft., Los Angeles Times (1991)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-09-re-783-story.html)
5. [Petra Ecclestone buys Spelling mansion for $85 million, Los Angeles Times (2011)](https://www.latimes.com/la-xpm-2011-jul-15-la-fi-spelling-mansion-20110715-story.html)
6. [The Manor, L.A. County's biggest home, aims to up the ante at $200 million, Los Angeles Times (2016)](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-hotprop-20161015-snap-story.html)
7. [The Manor in Holmby Hills returns to market at $160 million, Los Angeles Times (2019)](https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-the-manor-holmby-hills-20190530-story.html)
8. [You'd Be Surprised What a Mere $10 MILLION Can Get These Days, Los Angeles Times (1996)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-08-tm-6821-story.html)
9. [Spelling Manor (former), Velvet Ropes](https://www.velvetropes.com/celebrity-homes/spelling-manor-house-los-angeles)
10. [The House of Spelling: Massive Construction Project in Holmby Hills Flusters Some Neighbors, Los Angeles Times (1988)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-08-vw-1108-story.html)
11. [Inside A $165,000,000 Estate Bigger Than The Taj Mahal, Architectural Digest video](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/video/watch/on-the-market-inside-a-165000-dollars-000-estate-bigger-than-the-taj-mahal)
12. [Mapped: The Most Expensive Home Sales of 2025, Realtor.com](https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/mapped-most-expensive-home-sales-2025/)
13. [6 Things You Must Know About the $200M Spelling Manor, Realtor.com](https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/spelling-manor-6-must-know-facts/)
14. [If you have to ask, you can't afford it, Los Angeles Times (2009)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-28-fi-candy28-story.html)
15. [Closing a Decade of Design: Some Hits and Misses, Los Angeles Times (1989)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-31-re-43-story.html)
16. [Mega-Mansion Has Mega Roof Problem, Suit Says, Los Angeles Times (1997)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-27-me-42750-story.html)
17. [The Manor, an iconic L.A. mansion, seeks $165 million, Los Angeles Times (2022)](https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2022-02-14/the-manor-an-iconic-l-a-mansion-seeks-165-million)
18. [Is Spelling Manor The Next Mansion To Be Hit By Scammers?, Inman (2024)](https://www.inman.com/2024/09/30/is-spelling-manor-the-next-mansion-to-be-hit-by-scammers/)
19. [Former Google CEO acquires Spelling Manor for $110M, The Real Deal (2025)](https://therealdeal.com/la/2025/08/01/former-google-ceo-acquires-spelling-manor-for-110m/)
20. [Is LA in a giga-mansion glut?, KCRW Greater LA](https://www.kcrw.com/shows/greater-la/stories/is-la-in-a-giga-mansion-glut-2)
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