TORI SPELLING'S UNREALITY SHOW CELEBRITY'S EXTRAORDINARY YARD SALE CAN BE VIEWED AS SHOT AT MOM.Byline: TONY CASTRO Staff Writer STUDIO CITY -- What do you do when your father, one of the richest men in Hollywood, dies and leaves you, his only daughter, ``less than $1 million'' of his $300 million estate that your estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. mother controls? If you're Tori Spelling Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling (born May 16, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for being Aaron Spelling's daughter and for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210. , you throw a yard sale. Shortly after dawn Friday, on the winding hillside streets just off Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). , bargain hunters Bargain Hunters was a game show on ABC in the summer of 1987, hosted by Peter Tomarken. Games Each episode featured six contestants, with two playing one of the following games — Bargain Quiz, Bargain Trap and Bargain Busters — at a time. and celebrity seekers began lining up for what ultimately could be the yard sale of the year. With news helicopters hovering above and a phalanx phalanx, ancient Greek formation of infantry. The soldiers were arrayed in rows (8 or 16), with arms at the ready, making a solid block that could sweep bristling through the more dispersed ranks of the enemy. of TV cameras and paparazzi pa·pa·raz·zo n. pl. pa·pa·raz·zi A freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to magazines and newspapers. camped outside, Tori Spelling -- 33, and six months pregnant with her first child -- opened the doors to her $4,000-a-month rental house to anyone willing to surrender their cell phone and camera at the door for a chance to buy anything from used Sephora lip gloss and nail polish to vintage Louis Vuitton The Louis Vuitton Company (more commonly known simply as Louis Vuitton) is a luxury French fashion and leather goods brand and company, headquartered in Paris, France. It is a division of the French holding company, LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy S.A. luggage. Even next-door-neighbor Sharon Lupus lupus (l  `pəs), noninfectious chronic disease in which antibodies in an individual's immune system attack the body's own substances. -- wife of TV's ``Mission: Impossible'' strongman Peter Lupus Peter Lupus is an American bodybuilder and actor, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 17, 1932. He attended the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University, where he also played football and basketball. Lupus graduated in 1954. -- lined up and took a number for the chance to glimpse what was inside the home Spelling has shared with Canadian actor Dean McDermott Dean McDermott (born November 16, 1966 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor best known for playing Constable Turnbull on the TV series Due South and for his marriage to Tori Spelling. , whom she married in May, about a month before the death of her TV mogul father Aaron Spelling. ``I've never met her,'' said Sharon Lupus, who was No. 71 in line. ``We've kind of waved to one another from a distance.'' A two-day sale The same could be said of the hundreds of shoppers who are expected for the two-day sale, which actually has as much in common with the typical garage sale as a celebrity does with a 9-to-5 working stiff, though television fashionista Steven ``Cojo'' Cojocaru did have some fun with what was going on. ``Attention, Kmart shoppers!'' Cojocaru at one point announced into a mike in front of Spelling's house as his ``Entertainment Tonight'' cameraman rolled videotape. ``Price check on Aisle 4, for Tori Spelling's silver spoon,'' he joked in another on-camera stand-up stand·up or stand-up adj. 1. Standing erect; upright: a standup collar. 2. Taken, done, or used while standing: a standup supper; a standup bar. . At her 56,550-square-foot, 123-room Holmby Hills estate, mom Candy Spelling -- estranged from her daughter even before Aaron's death at age 83 -- has to be more outraged than ever. For Candy Spelling's daughter's yard sale isn't something Tori is rubbing in just locally. It's an episode on Tori's cheesy cheesy (che´ze) caseous. VH1 ``So NoTORIous'' reality television series, which according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. reports, has infuriated in·fu·ri·ate tr.v. in·fu·ri·at·ed, in·fu·ri·at·ing, in·fu·ri·ates To make furious; enrage. adj. Archaic Furious. her mother over her depiction in the show. Maybe that added to the delight Tori may have had Friday in shedding some of the past -- such as the pillow embroidered em·broi·der v. em·broi·dered, em·broi·der·ing, em·broi·ders v.tr. 1. To ornament with needlework: embroider a pillow cover. 2. with the words ``If it's not one thing, it's your mother,'' which sold for $100 to James St. James James St. James (born James Clark, August 1, 1966) was a Club Kid of the Manhattan club scene in the late 1980s/early 1990s and the author of Disco Bloodbath (now published under the title Party Monster). of Los Angeles. ``I had to break away from the past and be ready to start anew,'' Spelling told People magazine this week about her yard sale. ``It's out with the old, in with the new. ``I'm having the sale because we're moving and my taste has changed. Plus I'm a notorious pack rat pack rat, rodent of the genus Neotoma, of North and Central America, noted for its habit of collecting bright, shiny objects and leaving other objects, such as nuts or pebbles, in their place; also called trade rat or wood rat. . I keep everything.'' A representative said Spelling would not have any additional comments. No bargaining When it comes to her possessions, Spelling doesn't appear to be the sentimental type. She sold her invitation to former ``Beverly Hills 90210'' co-star Jason Priestly's 2005 wedding for $5 to Heather Bagan of Los Angeles. ``There's also lots of memorabilia from (Tori's) first wedding,'' said TV producer Jennifer Noble of West Hollywood, whose purchases included a ``So NoTORIous'' first-season script for $100. ``(But) they're not bargaining.'' All the while, Tori was hanging out in a green silk maternity top and jeans, her long blonde hair down, sipping designer bottled water. She was surrounded by what professional estate sale organizer Sharon Yost said were Spelling's belongings that ``represented 15 years of collecting, buying and designing'' and TV series cameras filming shoppers asking for the prices on clothes and later paying for items with cash or credit cards. ``When's the last time you were at a garage sale where you could pay using your Visa?'' asked Mathew Wallace of Palmdale, who bought Tori's custom-made roller skates for $25, a rubber duck for $5 and a Furby toy for $25. The only surprise expressed by most shoppers, who were herded in 20 at a time and were usually slow to leave, was the petite size of Spelling's apparel -- especially her size 51/2 shoes. But Spelling's tiny jeans were perfect for Tiffany Michaels of Beverly Hills, who bought them for $60, along with a purse for $125 and a dominatrix leather whip for $20. And, of course, everyone wanted into this roadside attraction. Enter Cojucaru, decked out in an orange shirt and striped purple tie under a tweed jacket. ``Is this for charity? Or does it go to Tori?'' ``It's for Tori,'' he was told by an estate worker. Which, of course, was why antiques dealers had been sent the usual notices that go out in advance of estate sales. Richard Ramirez, who works for an antiques shop in Santa Monica, paid $1,600 for four pieces of vintage Louis Vuitton luggage -- and said he expects to sell it for twice that amount. Most shoppers spent considerably less and, like Roz Kupfaman of Chatsworth, who bought three pieces of Murano glass for $100, left carrying their items in white shopping bags adorned with ``Tori Spelling Estate Sale'' logos. They're moving out Around 11 a.m., with the reality-show cameras rolling, a representative for the homeowner, David Levian, came out to the front yard and planted a red and white ``for lease'' sign for the four-bedroom, three-bath house, which Spelling and her husband are leaving after almost a year. The new season of ``So NoTORIous'' has Spelling and McDermott leaving Los Angeles to open a bed-and-breakfast. Fifteen minutes later, again with the TV cameras rolling, McDermott himself pulled up in his slate-gray Land Rover, causing momentary chaos on the narrow street. ``Is this crazy or what?'' a smiling McDermott said to shoppers waiting in line outside his house. He posed for photographs, then announced, ``It's getting too hot for me out here'' before heading indoors. As he had all morning long, retired LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Rick Groller, who now regularly works security for on-location filming, moved the hordes of cameramen and photographers back out of the street. ``This is actually pretty easy today,'' Groller said. ``All the show needed to do was hire one of us.'' Low-budget. Sure. This was what all this had been about, wasn't it? It was a yard sale episode, and most shows would have had to hire hundreds of extras to pose as shoppers. Not only had Tori Spelling gotten all those extras for free. She got them to pay her for working on her show. Bet not even the old man ever did that. tony.castro(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3761 CAPTION(S): 7 photos Photo: (1 -- 5 -- color) Dozens of shoppers, right, line up to enter the estate sale at Tori Spelling's house Friday in Studio City. Top, from left, Apolonia Wallace of Palmdale shows a ring she bought for $15, Stan Milatovic of Chatsworth purchased a painting, Richard Ramirez and Ophelia Aguayo leave Spelling's estate sale with Louis Vuitton luggage they bought for $1,600 and plan to resell, and Mathew Wallace of Palmdale shows off his purchase, a Furby he plans to sell on eBay. (6) A crowd of news media, shoppers and onlookers gathers outside Tori Spelling's Studio City house during her estate sale Friday. (7) Photographers shoot pictures outside Tori Spelling's house during her estate sale. Evan Yee/Staff Photographer |
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