Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom Headed to Trial After Man Claims He Sold $15M Home While on Painkillers

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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are embattled in a lawsuit over their $15 million home.The couple — who purchased their Santa Barbara abode in July 2020 — are set to begin a trial against the man who sold them the house, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, August 9..The seller — Carl Wescott, an 83-year-old veteran and businessman — claims in the paperwork “that he lacked the mental capacity to understand the nature and probable consequences of the contract” for a number of health reasons, including being on painkillers after back surgery several days prior to the sale, the legal paperwork states.“In addition to [Westcott’s] frailty from advanced age and poor heath [sic] from Huntington’s Disease, [Westcott] had a major six-hour surgery less than a week before the proposed contract to sell his home was presented to him on July 14, 2020,” the documents claim, alleging that “the multiple opiate medications, which were a synthetic form of morphine, disoriented and intoxicated [Westcott], depriving him of reason and understanding with respect to the terms and consequences of the contract, and seriously impaired [Westcott’s] mental faculties to the point he was of unsound mind and not competent to give his free, voluntary, or intelligent consent to the contract.

The contract that [Westcott] signed to sell his home is therefore void or voidable.”After coming to the realization that he had been under the influence at the time, Westcott “email[ed] Berkshire Hathaway, in its capacity as the dual agent for seller and buyer, [stating] that he did not want to sell his home,” explaining the situation and apologizing for the confusion. .That same day, Perry, 38, and Bloom, 46, sent Westcott a letter in which