LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Aaron Spelling Mansion (photos below), inherited by Candy Spelling, has been sold to Petra Ecclestone. The Aaron Spelling Mansion listing price was $150 million. The estate sold for $85 million to Ecclestone, daughter of Formula One head Bernie Ecclestone (net worth $4 billion). When listed the Spelling mansion made news as the most expensive residence on the market for $150 million. But at $85 million, this sale did not make celebrity real estate history. The biggest sale this year, rather, was the Yuri Milner (Digital Sky Technologies) purchase of the house owned by Fred Chan (ESS Technology) in March.

After putting her mansion on the market, Spelling made news by buying a two floor condo in Century City recently at $45 million. When built, the Spelling mansion broke records as the largest home in Los Angeles County – a French chateau-style mansion spanning 56,500 square feet of space on a 4.6 acre lot abutting the Los Angeles Country Club.

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As news of Spelling sale came in, photographers were chasing daughter Tori Spelling. In an attempt to get away, Spelling said she took down a section of the school’s wall. “[The] paparazzi chased me w/the kids 2school. I was trying to get away from him and had a pretty big accident. Took down whole wall of school.”

But the biggest residential home sale ever was in March this year. Yuri Milner’s price of $100 million made news as the highest amount ever paid for a single family residence in the U.S., claimed news reports in March of this year. The Fred Chan house (photo HERE) is located in Los Altos Hills near Silicon Valley. Chan founded ESS Technology which makes audio and video equipment. Milner’s Digital Sky Technologies is a fund that has multiple Silicon Valley investments including a $200 million purchase of Facebook stocks two years ago.

In comparison, Ron Baron paid $103 million for a residence in East Hampton, N.Y. But the Baron purchase wasn’t for a “home”. It included forty acres of residential vacant land with no single family residence on the property.

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Alert Rodeo Drive! Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is coming to Bravo, perhaps. Real Housewives on Bravo is reportedly next making the move to 90210.

Who will be the next Big Papa? The chihuahua of course! Bravo needs to cast a chihuahua in this potential train wreck ratings guaranteed hit.

And who else would be perfect? Candy Spelling! LALATE wants Candy in this. Technically Spelling is awaiting to move into her home in Century City, not Beverly Hills. But wait – check the notice’s language. Reportedly the casting notice reads:

Bravo is looking for outgoing, exciting, strong, focused women who reside in and around the Beverly Hills area that want to share their lives.

“We are looking for women who are lively and energetic, with defined opinions and views. Our featured women should have busy lives, be involved with the community, have a strong work ethic, and an active social calendar.”

Notice the word “around” Beverly Hills!

So there is hope for Candy Spelling. Someone start a petition. It would be C. Spelling on Bravo versus T. Spelling on Oxygen.

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LALATE is convinced the Spelling Mansion is the cause of Tori and Candy Spelling’s inability to communicate with each other. Tori Spelling told press earlier this week that mom Candy hasn’t contacted her to talk. Now Candy Spelling is using her website to send a message online to Tori to read.

Yes, this is what happens when the nearest bedroom in a mansion is 20 acres away.

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Candy’s latest response is she’s using the phone, emails and texts to reach Tori. Hey Candy – ever thought of actually using your feet and going over there? And Tori, you too. Tori had said:

“She knows how to reach me, she knows where we live.”

How about you use your feet too Tori, and walk over there and the ring the doorbell. On her website CandySpelling.com, Candy set a message to Tori in the latest round of Spellings who can’t communicate:

Says Candy:

“You haven’t responded to my emails, phone calls and text messages. You say you look at my website, so I’m trying to reach you that way. I want to see you and your family – in private, like the ‘normal family’ you say always wanted.”

“With your book coming out [Tuesday], the war of words will escalate. That’s not what I want. I want us to be a family. Well, I’m stepping up. Call me, write me, text me.”

“I’m a mother who, like every mother, wants communication and a great relationship with you, my daughter, and your family,” writes Candy. “I’d love to work it out the way all families try to resolve issues. In private. But, as I wrote in my book, I was a celebrity by marriage” – her husband is the late TV producer Aaron Spelling – “then a celebrity by motherhood. That means that my life is public. I’m used to it. It comes with the territory.

“What makes it so difficult is to hear you say things like: I’d like to call my mother, or I love my mother but don’t speak to her, or I think she has my nanny’s phone number. I don’t want a reunion via talk show or to speak through the press. I want a relationship with you and my grandchildren.”

“I am hopeful. Love, Mom.”

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Feud? Tori Spelling says there is no feud between her and mother Candy Spelling. Tori Spelling and Candy Spelling have books out at the same time and are milking every once of a no feud, yes feud, press angle this month.

The newest entry from Tori reports there is no feud .. but they never got alone … and they haven’t talked … and they haven’t hung out. And that’s called “no feud”.

“I love my mother. I’ve always loved her [and] no doubt she loves me. There’s no feud. We simply never meshed. My mother is who she is. I’ve become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn’t go together.

“… I, in no way, cut her off. [Candy] is welcome to make the effort if she wants to be present in their lives. She knows how to reach me, she knows where we live. if she would love to see her grandchildren, she should really make an effort to reach out and seem them.”

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PHOTOS! Here are pictures of Aaron Spelling’s mansion, clearly the best celebrity mansion ever featured in LALATE’s celebrity home stories.

Now it’s the most expensive, on the market for $150 million. A steal! Well, it’s cheap compared to the two floor condo that Spelling bought in Century City recently at a ridiculous price tag of $45 million. Yes, $45 million for a condo.

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At $150 million, the house is now the most expensive home on the market in the U.S. The Spelling mansion is already is the largest home in Los Angeles County – a French chateau-style mansion spanning 56,500 square feet of space on a 4.6 acre lot abutting the Los Angeles Country Club.

How many rooms are there? No one seems to know. Too many to count. Buyers – bring your checkbooks! Tourists – bring your cameras!

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