On Thursday, a US judge kept the door open for pop star Katy Perry to purchase a former LA convent. It has been reported that a group of elderly nuns improperly sold their hilltop convent to a businesswoman, however, the church officials delayed any efforts to finalize a competing sale to Katy Perry.
Judge James Chalfant of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled against the sale of the ex-nunnery to entrepreneur Dana Hollister, where the businesswoman Hollister has been fighting the "Roar" singer for the right to buy the property.
Judge James Chalfant stated, "There's no doubt in my mind that the sale was improper and invalid," James Chalfant also said, "It was a bad deal."
The judge, however did not exercise ultimate power if the Archdiocese of Los Angeles can sell the property to Perry for $14.5 million.
Judge James Chalfant said that Dana Hollister can remain in possession of the grounds pending a September 15 hearing, and the result of the hearing can determine whether the artist Katy Perry, Dana Hollister or someone else can best maintain the property and the nuns can be provided with the best benefits.
The judge ordered Dana Hollister in the meantime, to pay $25,000 a month rent. Hollister only has a caretaker of the former LA convent property, but she doesn't live there. The order of the judge also said that Dana Hollister cannot sell, lease or modify the property in the interim.
If Katy Perry will get the opportunity to buy the property, the pop singer plans to make the former convent into her home, where the sprawling hillside Italianate complex valued at $15 million is located near the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake.
In a legal proceedings last week, the two nuns challenged the archdiocese authorities to sell the property. As the archdiocese was accused of the motion of unilaterally changing the bylaws of the convent known as the California Institute of the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
