Spelling Manor — a 120-room mansion in Los Angeles with its own bowling alley and beauty salon, built by Aaron Spelling, the television producer behind “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Dynasty” — is one of the largest properties for sale in the country.
It’s been on the market for over 2 ½ years with a fittingly giant price tag: $137.5 million.
Its owner must have been thrilled when Eric Schmidt — the former CEO and executive chairman of Google, with a net worth of $23 billion as of October 21 — expressed interest in purchasing it, as The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.
The issue, though, is that the owner, who operates anonymously behind a limited liability company called 594 Mapleton, can’t sell it to him or to anyone else. (The Journal cited previous reporting that local agents believe the owner behind the LLC is a Saudi billionaire.)
Spelling Manor’s owner told the Journal through their lawyer …