Petra and dad
As I’m sure many of you know, after 90210 creator Aaron Spelling died, his wife Candy decided to downsize. She put her house on the market and moved into a $35 million 15,555 square foot condo, figuring it wouldn’t be too long before the place sold. Unfortunately, at the end of 2008, not too many people were looking for homes that had names (“The Manor”), 57,000 square feet, rooms solely devoted to gift-wrapping and asking prices of $150 million. Though she was probably advised to knock a few zeros off, Candy, the little known inspiration for Heather Locklear’s Melrose Place character, held her ground and refuse to budge on the price. Recently it started looking like the house that shows about teenagers getting high and humping built would never get sold, until a little lady named Petra Ecclestone swooped in and saved the day.
Petra, whose father is Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, needed a place to crash when she’s in from London and deemed The Manor to her liking (she’ll be “splitting her time between a six-story house in London’s Chelsea neighborhood purchased for £56 million and Los Angeles after her planned August wedding to entrepreneur James Stunt”).
If completed, the sale would underscore the importance of foreign buyers in the U.S. real-estate market. Earlier this year, Russian investor Yuri Milner bought a Silicon Valley home for $100 million, the highest-known price paid for a single-family home in the U.S. Russian composer Igor Krutoy and his wife, Olga, recently bought a condominium at New York’s Plaza for $48 million. Overall, though, the real-estate market in the U.S. is struggling, with prices sinking to 2002 levels in the first quarter, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller National Index released earlier this month.
It wouldn’t have to be this way, of course, if others thought to step up to the plate, like Petra did. For those of you skeptical about her contribution, she’s got an income of her own (she launched a fashion line) and probably covered the broker fees. Not only that, but Petra gets to feel really good about her buy, since according to the National Association of Realtors, for every two homes sold (and The Manor counts for a few), a job is created, which was presumably her motivation all along. Who will follow her example?
Check out the stems on blondie!
No, Yes, Maybe
I didn’t think hobbits wore shoes.
I thought Hannah Montana’s dad was the Achey Breaky Heart guy?
Addendum: It moved
Petra,
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Sun up, flood lights on, windows open, shades drawn, her wearing team McLaren body paint, me in team Ferrari body paint while extending the last oh on 90210, in a car bed, and Aarron Spelling as a propped up at the end of the bed.
The girls has to be adopted as she cannot be Bernie’s daughter. She was also in FHM and quite awesome too. Serious gene displacement here. If only Bernie were a little bigger, he would not be the ass he is.
I think she is wearing the Nike Dunk Grimus edition pumps.
FHM? what are you, 11 yrs old?
He looks like Hank Hill’s father from King of the Hill, the dude who had his legs whacked off at the knees.
/Otherwise, the blond is my only concern.
or, her mom/his ex-wife is an ex-model from eastern europe?
“Ecclestone was married to Slavica Ecclestone (née Slavica Radić) for almost 25 years. Slavica was his second wife. Radić was born in the town of Rijeka inCroatia in the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia in 1958. She is a 6’2″ (1.88 m) former Armani model who is 28 years his junior, and 11.5 inches (29 cm) taller than her husband.[33] The couple have two daughters, Tamara Ecclestone (born 1984) and Petra Ecclestone (born 1988). The Sun newspaper announced on 20 November 2008 that Slavica Ecclestone had moved out of the family home and filed for divorce.[34] The divorce was granted on 11 March 2009.[35] He also has a daughter by his first wife.”
are you so ignorant in the ways of the world that you’re unfamiliar with the concept of ugly rich dude marrying hot woman and producing good looking kids who by the grace of god got mom’s genes?
Dennis Milleresque in it’s multilayered DB and pop culture centric references. 91
- Robert Parker, Post Connosieur
What do you get if you combine Mutt and Jeff with Beauty and the Beast?
love the dress, but the hair has to go. She has the bimbo look to her.
You act like that is a bad thing
Her sister is way hotter
there’s no fixing genetics.
Just remember that some guy, somewhere is sick and tired of putting up with her shit. Just go for it.
Ok, so that guy can have my wife and I will take Petra for the next 5 years. Deal?
If youre too nervous to talk to her just remember shes had a dick in her mouth at some point.
Coffee. on. keyboard. Nevertheless, what about midget w/ video camera? Other than that, I have no concerns.
“When it comes to 22 year-old Petra…Bernie, you are NOT the father.”
- Maury
FTW
so very true.
-guy not intimidated due to his sweet civic (UBS MD)
Know how I know you’re gay?
I would think this is 125% financed by 81 year old Dad’s pension fund and that he’s expecting to live to 88 at minimum…
BL set the bar, we’re just all trying to live up to it.
thanks for that .. I didnt know it was fashionable back then as well to marry girls of your daughter’s age…
pmco do those qualify as FMPs?
pretty sure that’s been fashionable since the dawn of time.
$35mm and she can’t own her own building?
Lights on, video rolling, walls knocked down, neighbors invited over.
But don’t you think it would be really, really good to grab that much hair under certain circumstances?
I believe that’s the polite, British way to say “Someone’s tired of fucking it”?
What is a 65 year old widow going to do with her own building.
it moved again.
Can I pull your hair?
It is……
Gay? More like female.
Well….not really. Too old.
Yep, the hair has to go, the head has to go, until it’s time for head job.
leave her dad out of this
I think her personal trainer’s genes probably got in there, too.
Because I’m not interested in busted daytona strippers who banging would be the equivalent of jumping on a pile of used needles?
Sure. Just not too hard OK?
Olympic Games opening ceremony, show centre piece, billions of people watching the world over, me throwing up 2 thumbs up saying ‘Hi mum…’
Speaking of King of the Hill, there might be a John Redcorn situation afoot as well.
OK! Safe word will be ‘harder’
That’s not a good safe word. Typically, when I say “harder” it doesn’t mean stop. Our safe word should be fifth derivative…the meaning of that cannot be misconstrued.
xoxo
reverse hoverhand
Yes but it would be better if they were red or plastic or silvery/purple Nike Dunk stilettos. xoxo
Yeah pretty sure thats the Original Killing It
… and my mother-in-law watching
God I hope she’s crazy
‘nt
Okay then, to prevent any confusion, the new safe word is “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”.
For $150 million that could have been 150 new jobs being created if it were a regular home vs just one for one home sold. She’s not saving the housing market people with money like this are the ones making it worst in the first place! Let the middle class eat cake! Off with her head!
Here Serbian genes obviously overcame Bernie’s!
can’t figure out which looks like a doll, him or her?
A regular middle-class house costs $1mm?
Pretty much. That is to say, in anyplace worth living it does.
FY Bernie for making F1 unwatchable.
“making it worst”
other than that I have no concerns.
are you lost?
There goes Petra with her boob on display. He is one crazy midget!
mother-in-law and wife’s divorce attorney