Tori Spelling Used to Scare Friends with ‘Creepy As F—’ Doll Room in Her Parents’ Basement

Tori Spelling says there was one room in her parents’ famous mansion that scared her friends.

In a new episode of her podcast wrong SPELLINGpublished on Tuesday, August 20, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum opened a 56,000-square-foot Los Angeles estate known as “The Manor,” where she lived in her late teens with her parents, legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling and Candy Spelling, and brother Randy Spelling.

While describing the home’s many unique spaces, Tori, 51, shared her memories of the “doll museum” that housed her mother’s Madame Alexander collection, alongside items from Candy’s signature doll line for QVC.

The basement room, centered on a stage, also displayed his father’s collection of “intricate” puppets in motion, such as a clapping monkey figure.

The property was once owned by Aaron and Candy Spelling.

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“It was creepy as hell,” Tori recalled, admitting that she would use it to prank her friends, who she says include her and 90210 costar Brian Austin Green is still talking.

“One time Brian Green and I and all our friends were at home and I showed him, but I did that with all my friends,” she said. “He wasn’t scared, but I had some friends I messed with.”

Spelling explained that she would take people to the back of the house’s bowling alley, where the wall would “open up,” giving way to “all the mechanics” of the house.

“Everything was down,” she continued. “It was like Oz.”

Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling in 1994.

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“It was dark and we shouldn’t have gone back there,” she remarked of the hidden space that led to the doll museum on the other side of the basement level.

Tori said almost every friend she brought to high school found the experience “creepy.”

“They’d go into the doll museum and I’d be, like, adjusting the lights to dim them perfectly,” she recalled.

“Everybody was scared,” she continued. “Horrified. But my brother and I would mess with them. One of the siblings would lead the tour, and the other would “jump out that door, go behind and say, ‘Wow!’

Candy sold the house in 2011, five years after the death of her husband Aaron, who produced more than 200 films and TV shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, Love Boat, Vegas, Hart to Hart, Dynasty, TJ Hooker, Fantasy Island, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place and Enchanted.

Tori Spelling, Aaron Spelling and Candy Spelling in 2002.

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When Candy put the mansion on the market in 2009, she opened up about the doll museum in an interview with PEOPLE.

“I first collected dolls for Tori when she was a little girl,” she said. “But she told me she was afraid of them – she felt like they were watching her in her room.”

Tori previously recalled the home, which also has a bar, pool room, arcade and two gift-wrapping rooms. 90210 MG podcast, sharing that she “never saw every room” in the house after living there for two years, starting when she was 17.

“Honestly, there was a wing where all my mum’s staff lived and I just remember her saying, ‘Oh, they need privacy.’ Well, she never actually showed it to me,” Tori said in 2022. “I didn’t see it before they moved in, so when they were there, she said, ‘It’s kind of forbidden because they live there.'”

The home was recently listed for sale with a record asking price of $165 million in 2022. The owner of the property – which sits on 4.7 hectares and has 123 rooms – was unknown at the time as it was last bought by a limited company.

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