Candy Spelling doesn’t leave her gift-wrapping room for less than $150M

Candy Spelling, estranged mother of the actress formerly known as everyone’s favorite accidental intoxication victim (Donna Martin graduates!) is determined to get $150M, and not a penny less, for her ginormous mansion in Holmby Hills, CA.

I have had the privilege of being chauffeured around outside “the Manor,” and I can attest that it is, indeed, ginormous. And I know people who know people who’ve seen the gift-wrapping room first-hand, and they say it is impressive. But is it $150M-impressive?

Eight months ago when Candy Spelling, widow of legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling, put her 4.7-acre estate in Holmby Hills up for sale, the $150-million listing price raised more than a few eyebrows. The 56,500-square-foot mansion remains the most expensive residential listing in the U.S., and there’s no price reduction in sight.

Aside from the cost of the house, this quote from the L.A. Times really floored me: “The house is believed to have more than 100 rooms, but its owner has never counted them.”

Wait, NEVER COUNTED THEM? Seriously, you’re too rich to bother to invest the bare minimum effort in knowing anything at all about your house, which you are trying to sell? Counting, even to a hundred, Candy, is preschool-level stuff. Can’t you at least pay someone to do that for you?

You know what’s funny, Candyland doesn’t even look that nice. There’s a creepy convention center/last days of Marie Antoinette feel about the whole place. No accounting for taste, I guess.