Singer Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom may have to face a legal trial after a three-year dispute in the case of buying their home in Santa Barbara in July 2020, when an eighty-three-year-old named Carl Wescott filed a complaint accusing them of buying his house for $ 15. Two million dollars in a mental condition that was not allowed to see the sales contract.
According to Radar Online, the house was sold to the couple when its owner had just been released from the hospital after undergoing back surgery that lasted six hours, after which he claimed that he was under the pressure of painkillers and did not know what to do.
Wescott had admitted that Berry and Bloom’s clients had threatened to sue him if he refused to sell the duo his property, demanding that the sale contract be declared null or void on the grounds that he lacked the mental ability to understand the nature of the possible consequences arising from it, going so far as to deny that he had offered His house is for sale or he talks to a broker about it.
And the Daily Mail newspaper had mentioned in the details of the complaint that Westcott had been discharged from the hospital with narcotic pills to overcome the pain of the surgery he underwent, as he had to take it several times a day, in addition to his weak physical structure and his advanced age, which made all of these factors combined a mental handicap. It prevents him from being able to sell his huge house.
