Breaking But Not Surprising News: Tori Spelling Doesn't Own Chateau La Rue

Where: 4735 Olive Hill Road [map], Fallbrook, CA, United States, 92028

4/30/2007 at 5:23 PM
Tags: Tori and Dean, Tori Spelling, Hotel Reviews

A tipster pointed us in the way of this recent article from the Fallbrook Village News about Tori Spelling's B & B and it turns out Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott DO NOT actually own Chateau La Rue. Which means that all that crap the media bought from the duo about them taking Tori's pithy $800,000 inheritance from Daddy Spelling and investing it in a B & B is exactly that, crap.

Reporter Christina Macone-Green writes:

A trip down to the San Diego County Assessors office on April 19 proved to be quite interesting. An assessment clerk, Ms. Lerma, easily pulled up the Chateau La Rue property address and reported that there had been no activity since 2004. There was no new document number and/or transaction for this residence.

"Nothing new has been recorded with the County of San Diego," Lerma said. The assessment clerk explained that the computer systems were up to date, having only a three-day lapse for transactions.

So who are the property owners of this Fallbrook bed and breakfast? There is no one new. "Christopher King and Patricia King are still the owners," asserted Lerma.

If you haven't been watching every episode, like we have, Patricia was featured in the episode where Tori and Dean negotiate a price for the B & B. Dean thoughtfully writes a number down on a piece of paper and slides it over to Patricia, who decides to "think about it." Then Tori and Dean "anxiously" await her call where she finally agrees to "sell" it to them for their price.

So don't feel bad for Tori or Dean when they stress over putting their "life savings" into this venture, even if they mention it like 10 times in every episode. You should actually feel bad for Oxygen!, because we're guessing they are paying for everything, including the Tori Spelling drag queens.

But if you're interested, you can buy the B & B which is for sale at $2.6 million, down from its original asking price of $3.4 million.

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