Singer Katy Perry has emerged victorious in her battle to purchase the Roman Catholic convent in Los Angeles after a judge ruled in her favour to move forward with the sale for a second time.
The Roar singer has been involved in a dispute over the historic Los Feliz property, the property was formerly occupied by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, since the year 2015.
She put in an offer for the estate, which was accepted by the representatives of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, but the two nuns who used to live there accepted another bid from businesswoman Dana Hollister, who subsequently moved in. In the last year, a judge invalidated the sale to Hollister, but the ruling was subsequently vacated by the state appellate judges.
However, on Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephanie Bowick approved the archdiocese's motion to block the sale to Hollister again in its entirety, giving Katy Perry to go-ahead snap up the Roman villa-style property for $14.5 million.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Hollister offered to buy the former convent for $15.5 million, had hoped to convert the convent into a hotel.
The ruling reads, "the court finds that the sisters did not have authority to sell the Property to Hollister. Even assuming that the Sisters had the authority to dispose of the Property, which they did not, they nevertheless failed to validly consummate the transaction. The deal documents were not properly documented." Perry's final bid to purchase the property will now face approval from the officials at Vatican.
The ruling comes a week after the nuns involved in the case which slammed the 32-year-old for her "disgusting lifestyle".
Sister Rita Callanan told to the DailyMail.com that, "(I would) not be very happy at all if Perry got the property. I do not like Katy Perry's lifestyle. I gave a lot of the things from the internet to show the Archdiocese what kind of woman she was. Some of the things she does are disgusting."
Sister Rita Callanan even went so far as to accuse Perry of practicing witchcraft.
Mrudula Duddempudi.
