Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.
Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin.
After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007.
Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom Headed to Trial After Man Claims He Sold $15M Home While on Painkillers
usmagazine.comKaty 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
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