I just don't understand why she would want to sell it. If she has grown a bit tired of the place, she could do what they used to do in the old days for manor houses, roll up the rugs, cover all the furniture and chandeliers in white muslin and head out to some distant land. After a few years, on the road, having the house 'opened up' again would make it seem fresh and welcoming.

I just don't know if she is going to be able to get $150 M~~~a property such as hers will really only appeal to another mogul/titan/industrialist and they will want to build their OWN monument on her 5 acres. I would not be surprised if the person who buys it will tear the place down and build something else altogether. Gerald and Iris Cantor (of Cantor Fitzgerald) used to live up the street from me on Tower Road in Beverly Hills, and though they did a number on their Tower Lane house, they eventually built a palatial mansion in Bel Air and called it La Belle Vie. They wanted to put their own imprimatur on a property. And who could blame them?

I think that someone buying up Mrs Spelling's Manor house will do the very same thing. They did it to Bing Crosby's digs. History has a habit of repeating itself.