AHA! Found it--and I was right. From the
Contra Costa Times/San Jose Mercury News:
Talk about shock. Tori Spelling learned of her father's death from a friend last week as she dined in Toronto, instead of from her mother, Candy. The news at that point had already come out on TV and radio reports. Aaron Spelling died on June 23.
That means some guy who parks cars at Spago in Los Angeles probably learned of Aaron Spelling's death before Spelling's daughter did.
"A friend of mine had seen a TV report, and e-mailed me," Tori Spelling tells Us magazine. "And I was just in total shock. My first thought was, 'I can't believe my mom didn't call me!'"
In the Us Weekly story, a copy of which was obtained by E! Online, Tori Spelling recounts her long-running feud with her mom, but claims she was on good terms with her legendary TV producer father.
"My mom's behavior simply made me uncomfortable to be around my family," Tori Spelling says in the magazine. Spelling was most upset that her mother was spending time with a longtime family friend, Mark Abramson, while her father's health deteriorated. Candy Spelling has denied there was a romance with Abramson, who introduced the Spellings about 38 years ago, according to Fox News.
Regardless, Tori Spelling says she saw her father only once since last September, during a visit in June, a week before his stroke. Tori Spelling's estrangement might have been compounded when she split from first husband Charlie Shanian and took up with married actor Dean McDermott. And it didn't help when her mom mocked Tori's VH1 series, "So noTORIous."