Who is really rich but that person who finds contentment in what he/she has? Who is really happy but that person who finds joy in doing what positively affects mankind? Who really has a bed but that person who sleeps soundly at night? Who really has a home but that person who finds peace and happiness in such a place, which is considered a bastion? The ability to impact a positive change in the life of another is happiness defined. It usually manifests itself as a deep, heart-felt smile and not a pretentious drug/alcohol-induced plastic show of teeth? Click on the picture top right and appreciate the enormity of this property!
With the above premise as a backdrop, recall that the Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 1:2 , that "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity." Icheoku says there is never a time this passage was more apposite than the recent putting up for sale, of the biggest mansion in the United States of America? Some said that it is so big that it is bigger than the president's home - the White House? That the Hollywood property known as "The Manor", owned by Aaron and Candy Spelling is on the market, is not necessarily the story here; but that a person would give up such a "paradise on earth" of a mansion in Holmby Hills, Hollywood, California? Icheoku says, such is only possible when the person can no longer find joy from being "enslaved" to such a cavern? The asking price for the 4.7 acres property is a "meagre" $150 million dollars USD and hopefully buyers will be queuing up to try to out-bid one another? The Manor is a town unto itself with first class amenities including a barbershop, a beauty salon, a 100 vehicles parking lot with 16 covered carports and about 100 rooms each customized for specific purposes. Built in 1991, the three-story 56,500 square feet mansion incorporates an automated projection screening (movie) room, a bowling alley, a flower-cutting room, library, gym and media room, wine cellar/tasting room, a silver storage room with humidity control, a swimming pool, a reflection pool, a pool house with a kitchen, a tennis court, fountains, a waterfall, a spa, a koi pond, a roof-top rose garden, a mixed garden and a citrus orchard. To house the mansion staff, there is a service wing with five maids' bedrooms and two butlers' suites with kitchenettes, five fireplaces and four wet bars? Icheoku asks, who wouldn't want to be a servant in the manor? The mansion has so many rooms that not even Candy Spelling is sure of the exact number of rooms, but it is believed to be in excess of 100? Some of the rooms includes ceilings that reach up to 30 feet high?
Candy Spelling said she is re-locating to a pent-house condo which she bought at Century City, Los Angeles California for $47 million? According to Candy, she is simply down-sizing from a $150 million dollars home to a $47 million dollars pad, because she just found out that the manor is too big for just one person? Icheoku says, what an epiphany that she just suddenly realized that a 100 rooms plus home is too indulgent for one person to call home? In her final eulogy to the mansion, Candy Spelling said, “I have a lot of wonderful, wonderful, wonderful feelings about this house and special things that I went through in "building" it, with a love that you can’t even imagine; yet I feel like I’m moving on to a new chapter in my life.”
Icheoku says, should no buyer be found for such excess, may be Candy should consider donating the property to the state of California for public use! Late Billionaires Hearst and Vanderbilt estates made similar gift-gesture of their "paradises on earth" when they got fed up with their own vanity and gave it up? That will be the good thing to do and exactly what sociology would recommend as no rational mind will judiciously think that such a monumental housing scheme befits single occupancy? It will be recalled that Aaron Spelling's magic hands produced such hit-shows as “Charlie’s Angels,” “Dynasty” and “Beverly Hills 90210” before he died in 2006. The Manor is really a trophy property, comparable to the Playboy mansion!
Icheoku says, should no buyer be found for such excess, may be Candy should consider donating the property to the state of California for public use! Late Billionaires Hearst and Vanderbilt estates made similar gift-gesture of their "paradises on earth" when they got fed up with their own vanity and gave it up? That will be the good thing to do and exactly what sociology would recommend as no rational mind will judiciously think that such a monumental housing scheme befits single occupancy? It will be recalled that Aaron Spelling's magic hands produced such hit-shows as “Charlie’s Angels,” “Dynasty” and “Beverly Hills 90210” before he died in 2006. The Manor is really a trophy property, comparable to the Playboy mansion!
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