Katy Perry has been involved in some wild legal issues over the years. Perry has been to court on more than one occasion regarding legal issues over buying property. The first instance is from 2015 when she sued a group of nuns who tried to block her from purchasing their convent .
More recently, Perry and her fiancé, Orlando Bloom , went to trial over the sale of their Santa Barbara home. The former owner claimed he was not in the right state of mind to sell the property due to his declining health and was forced to sell the home to Perry and Bloom. Keep scrolling to see Perry’s strangest legal issues over the years: Perry sued a group of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary after the singer attempted to purchase their former convent in Los Angeles.
According to the New York Times , the nuns purchased the property in 1972 from businessman Daniel Donohue . However, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles forced the remaining sisters to relocate against their will in 2011, per Billboard . Years later, Archbishop Jose Gomez agreed to sell the property to Perry without any input from the nuns.
Perry, who grew up with a religious background, made an offer to pay for the estate with $14.5 million in cash, which Gomez accepted. After learning that Perry wanted to buy their former home, two of the nuns researched Perry.
The women were allegedly appalled by her after watching some of her past interviews and performances. In 2015, Perry ended up meeting with the two nuns and reporte.