Los Angeles Adjudicator Clears Way for Katy Perry to Buy Above Convent

Pop brilliant Katy Perry will get her adventitious to reside in a above Roman Catholic abbey afterwards a adjudicator on Wednesday invalidated the property’s auction by 5 nuns to a restaurateur.

The case had alveolate Perry, babe of Protestant pastors and one of the top-selling pop stars in the world, and the archdiocese adjoin the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary.

The nuns, all age-old amid backward 70s and backward 80s, already lived in the abbey and two of them capital to advertise it to Los Angeles restaurateur Dana Hollister.

The archdiocese filed a accusation endure June, arguing that the two nuns did not accept the ascendancy to advertise the acreage to Hollister.

Los Angeles Superior Court Adjudicator Stephanie Bowick accustomed the archdiocese’s motion to block the auction to Hollister, abolishment the acquirement abstracts and deed. She said the nuns did not accept the ascendancy to advertise the acreage and that even if they had, they did not appropriately validate the transaction.

Representatives for Hollister did not acknowledgment to requests for comment.

The archdiocese said it was “gratified” by Bowick’s cardinal in a statement, and added that it was still beneath arrangement to advertise the abbey to Perry.

“The Archdiocese was affected to yield acknowledged activity to assure all the 5 sisters from getting taken advantage of by the Dana Hollister transaction,” it said, abacus that it will abide to accommodate affliction for the nuns.

Perry, who rose to acclaim with the hit song “I Kissed a Girl,” offered to buy the 8-acre (3-hectare) Roman Villa-style acreage for $14.5 million.

The nuns had rebuffed the 31-year-old performer, accepting a aggressive $15.5 actor bid from Hollister, who capital to catechumen the above abbey into a hotel.

Attorney John Scholnick, who represents two of the 5 nuns, told Reuters he was “disappointed,” but emphasized that the cardinal alone invalidated the auction to Hollister and did not accredit the auction to Perry. He said there could be an advantage for an appeal.