Real estate is such a headache these days! For instance, Gen Z may never be able to buy homes. Many of us are stuck in an unending cycle of renting amidst crazy inflation with wages that have barely increased in the past decade. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are also dealing with their housing crisis, albeit a(nother) $15 million one. ATM, they’re trying to buy a house the current owner says he didn’t mean to sell, so if you like confusing drama, real estate and religion, buckle up.
Here's everything we know about Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's house drama so far.
House #1
In July 2020, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom bought a $15 million home in Santa Barbara, a month before welcoming their first child together, Daisy Dove. You may be wondering exactly why that's a problem, which under literally any other circumstance would be a fair thought. In this case, though, it is not.
The seller of the home, 80-year-old Carl Westcott, just had back surgery prior to the sale. He and his lawyers are now claiming that the painkillers disrupted his judgement, meaning he wasn’t able to properly review the contract and “was of unsound mind and not competent to give his free, voluntary, or intelligent consent to the contract. The contract that [Carl] signed to sell his home is therefore void or voidable,” Yahoo shared.
This isn’t necessarily out-of-the-blue, though. Shortly after signing, Carl emailed the company representing the sale and stated that he actually didn’t want to move, leading lawyers to get involved and prompting Carl to file a complaint in August 2020 and sue Katy and Orlando’s business manager.
According to Carl's daughter-in-law Kameron Westcott (who just so happened to be on seasons two through four of the now-defunct Real Housewives of Dallas), Carl is battling Huntington’s disease, which according to Mayo Clinic "causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain." The rare, inherited disease has “a wide impact on a person’s functional abilities and usually results in movement, thinking (cognitive), and psychiatric disorders.”
Obviously, this would cause a major disruption in anyone's ability to make sound and healthy decisions, just another reason as to why this sale is a tad questionable, to say the least.
House #2
Now if this sounds familiar, you're memory serves you well. In 2014, Katy offered $14.5 million to purchase a Los Feliz convent-slash-estate belonging to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, an order of nuns who had pooled their money to buy the property back in 1972. Many of them have since passed, prompting the Archdiocese to force the five remaining nuns to move out against their will in 2011 before agreeing to sell the property to Katy. (How it’s even possible for the Archdiocese to force the nuns out of a home THEY purchased is beyond us.)
The nuns objected to the sale in 2015, leading two of the remaining sisters, Catherine Rose Holzman and Rita Callanan, to have a meeting with Katy in which she (reportedly) tried to win them over via song, yes — a song...at least according to Insider. While the nuns found her “nice,” they decided that they wanted to sell the property to restaurateur Dana Hollister.
Despite official confirmation, Dana moved in. She was quickly sued by both Katy and the Archdiocese, who claimed that the nuns didn’t have the right to negotiate their own sale. Dana paid rent so she could keep living on the property, that is, until the um, the Vatican got involved. The freakin’ Vatican.
Flash forward to 2017, when a Los Angeles judge ruled that Katy had the right to purchase the place. Since the Catholic Church needs the Pope’s approval for sales over a certain amount, Pope Francis declared that Katy couldn’t have the place until she figured out what to do about the active on-site chapel, like perhaps finding a replacement venue. Meanwhile, the pop singer successfully sued Dana for interfering in her purchase, and Dana later filed for bankruptcy.
In 2018 the two aforementioned sisters went with Dana to bankruptcy court, where 89-year-old Catherine Rose famously told the press, “Katy Perry, please stop.” Hours later, she tragically collapsed and died in court.
Sister Rita has since said that Katy has “blood on her hands," but no one has heard from Rita since summer 2019…
Meanwhile, Brian Holzman, nephew of the late Sister Catherine Rose, talked to RadarOnline about the present-day Westcott dispute, calling Katy Perry “a pretty evil woman. It sounds like she is at it again. She is who she is, and she’s going to do what she’s going to do. It’s all about money and greed!”
It’s unclear whether Katy ever even moved into the convent following the godly dispute.
We don't know about you, but it does seem rather odd that Katy is embroiled in yet another housing dispute with an elderly person. Coincidence? We can’t say. Just buy another $15 million home Katy. NBD.
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