Los Angeles ? Only in Hollywood can a yard sale for a minor celebrity escalate into a hyperventilated national entertainment event.

That’s what happened this weekend at the rented home of actors Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles’ Studio City area. Blowing out the past to make a fresh start, the newlyweds opened their house to all comers and offered their possessions for sale on Friday and Saturday.

The everything-must-go “Tory Spelling Dazzling Studio City Estate Sale” quickly reached feverish proportions that, even by Hollywood standards, teetered on the surreal. Ten TV news helicopters hovered overhead, camera crew trucks blocked the road resulting in traffic jams resulting in angry neighbors resulting in a police response. The paparazzi prowled Dona Lisa Drive angling for a glimpse of the couple inside.

Outside, legions of die-hard fans and publicity seekers converged, as well as ordinary people eager to possess a sliver of fame. Three fans of the television show “90210” took a flight from Boston to shop at the sale. Perez Hilton, the gay activist blogger and celebrity lampooner, and his entourage came for a piece of the action.

The entire event was videotaped for Spelling’s VH1 show, “So NoTORIous,” a reality show loosely based on Tori’s life, except the program is scripted, in which the main character’s mom is portrayed as having an out-of-control shopping addiction.

Diane Norried shows items she purchased from a yard sale at the home of actress Tori Spelling in the Studio City section of Los Angeles on Friday.

Tori is the daughter of the late Aaron Spelling, creator of “90210,” “Dynasty,” “Melrose Place” and “Charlie’s Angels.” He left his wife, Candy, about $300 million, while Tori reportedly received less than $1 million.

The official reason given for the sale was McDermott and Spelling plan to open a bed and breakfast inn and raise their child outside Los Angeles (Spelling is pregnant). They have been looking at sites in California, including Ojai, Temecula and Idyllwild.

Inside the house, everything was offered for sale: wine glasses and jewelry and dresses and cabinets and lingerie and China and a dominatrix whip and paintings and plush toys and vases and sofas and wine bottles and roller skates and a rubber duck. However, Mimi LaRue, Spelling’s 13-pound pug, which she sometimes dresses in chiffon and pearls, was not for sale.

Shoppers wait in line Friday to browse the sale.

One person paid $25 for Spelling’s plastic Starbucks mug – evidently a fair exchange considering the cup retained a smear of Spelling’s lipstick and came with her autograph.

By garage-sale standards, prices were largely haggle-proof, though people could pay with Visa and leave with their loot packed in Tori Spelling Estate Sale bags.

As many as 300 buyers stood in line for up to three hours as security personnel allowed only 20 shoppers in the house at a time.

Heather Fill of Marina del Rey marveled at the spectacle as she waited in line before entering the house on Saturday afternoon.

“I’m just intrigued. No one else’s yard sale would get this much press,” Fill said. “My yard sale never got picked up on ‘Access Hollywood.’ Only in L.A.!” she said.