Candy Spelling’s Dolls


11/30/2020 Updated 9/28/2026

As a doll collector I am interested in Candy Spelling’s Dolls. During her years at the Manor, Candy collected a large number of Madame Alexander Dolls which are top of the line dolls made for adult collectors. Tori said, her mother would give her a doll each year. However, her mother decided to auction all the dolls off and give her part of the profits to charity. A nice idea, but some of the dolls were supposed to be Tori’s dolls. I would have certainly objected to my mother getting rid of my dolls. My mother threw out my vintage 60s Barbie’s when she decided I was too old for them.

Candy Spelling’s dolls were auctioned off in 2011. Since the auction has long passed I thought I would like to take a look at her dolls, but I can’t find any online photos of them. This is really odd, as I thought some of them would come to eBay at some point. In fact I recalled I had seen one for sale on eBay, but I did not take down any notes about it. I had one Madame Alexander Doll named Renoir. Her outfit was only vaguely based on the painter Renoir. She had a white face due to plastic aging.

Madame Alexander Doll named Renoir face color changes


By Googling Candy Spelling Dolls, I discovered she made a doll with Madame Alexander, but the dolls owned by her have all gone into private collections. I am surprised there is not at least a doll blogger who owns one, who posted about the dolls. I guess I will have read Candy’s Book which is called Candy Land to find out if she has anything more to say about her dolls. I am interesting in why she collected them, what she liked about each one, how much she bought them for and how much they sold for. An auction house inventory would also be useful.

Updated: Grok provided answers to my questions. To summarize: 11/20/2011 was the sale date, they sold for $460,000 in total. The dolls were sold individually at Theriault’s Auction House. Theriault’s only deals with dolls, toys and figures. Candy Spelling was not happy and she sued them. The suit was settled out of court in 2012 but the details were not disclosed.

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2 thoughts on “Candy Spelling’s Dolls”

  1. I know Tori did not want the dolls, but since many of them were in fact presents to her from her mother, I thought she should have some say in what happened to them. I don’t think she was scared of them, but maybe they had a creep factor for her?

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  2. I was at that Auction & spoke to Candy – she said Tori was NEVER interested in any of the MA Dolls. She was scared of them.

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