The rights to a Santa Barbara mansion belong to pop star Katy Perry, her agent’s lawyer said during opening arguments Wednesday.
The seller’s earnest search for a new home in the days after he signed the contract, despite recovering from surgery and taking prescribed opiates, shows that he was “more than rational” her lawyers argue.
The parties are in California state court over ownership of the eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom estate that Perry and her partner Orlando Bloom purchased for $15 million from Carl Westcott, a serial entrepreneur and founder of 1-800-Flowers, in 2020.
Lawyers for Westcott, who was 80 years old ...
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