Katy Perry really wants to live in a convent. Surely, this would make her Pentecostal pastor parents proud.
The pop singer’s pursuit isn’t to purify any “sins”—like falling under the starlet spell of guitar wizard John Mayer or marrying (and divorcing) outrageous comedian Russell Brand, many a parent’s nightmare.
In 2015, Perry shelled out nearly $15 million for a sprawling 8-acre Los Feliz, California villa estate (formerly the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary convent)
because it’s unique, spectacular and blessed with good karma. Or so we thought.
The new American Idol judge’s curious case for the elusive convent just got stranger before an official magistrate.
An elderly nun who challenged Perry’s purchase of the Medievalish hilltop estate died suddenly during a March 9th court proceeding, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, 89, collapsed at a court hearing indirectly related to her order’s protracted lawsuit with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles over who owns the right to sell the Spanish-Gothic estate,
which boasts 30,000 square feet of interior living space, an adjacent prayer quarters, an Esther Williams-style fountain pool, and a Medieval-like tower.
Architect Bernard Maybeck built the estate in 1927 for Earle C. Anthony who founded radio station KFI-AM in Los Angeles. The house was then sold in the 1950s to Catholic philanthropists Daniel and Bernadine Murphy Donohue.
In 1972, Holzman and her fellow Sisters pooled their money to purchase the property from the Donohues at a deep discount. The nuns lived in the estate until 2011 when the Archdiocese forced their relocation.
Then things got really messy. When the nuns sold the large estate to Silver Lake, California businesswoman Dana Hollister in 2015, the Archdiocese balked, claiming the Sisters didn’t have the right to sell.
Concurrently the Archdiocese approved a sale to Katy Perry for $14.5 million (including $10 million cash).
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