Katy Perry nun story centers around a controversial real estate dispute involving the pop star, the Catholic Church, and a group of elderly nuns in Los Angeles. In 2015, Perry attempted to purchase a former convent for $14.5 million, with approval from the Archdiocese of L.A., but the nuns who had lived there objected, claiming they had the right to sell the property to someone else.
Who is Katy Perry and what property did she want to buy?
Look, I'm not saying Katy Perry unalived a none, but you gotta hear this story. So this is Katy Perry, the pop star. You know Katy Perry. And one day in 2014, Katy decides to take some of that pop star money and buy herself a big-ass mansion in Los Angeles. So she looks around and she finds one for sale. This monstrosity. Now, Katie apparently really wants this house.
Like she'll do anything for it. Maybe even unalive someone. I'm not saying she unalive someone, but you know, just listen to this story. So here's the thing about this house. It is huge, 30,000 square feet. It's even got a pool shaped like a fricking fish. In fact, this house is so big that it's actually not a house at all. Traditionally, it's been a convent where a bunch of elderly nuns live.
And we'll get back to these nuns. But first, we gotta talk about Catholic priests, specifically ones who diddle boys. You know what I'm talking about. I mean, abuse in the Catholic Church as a whole was rampant for decades, particularly in the Archdiocese in Los Angeles. And an archdiocese is sort of like a collection of churches.
So this collection of churches in Los Angeles had some pretty serious schmactual abuse accusations thrown at them in the early 90s and 2000s. And one day, boom, they get sued. And so in 2007, the archdiocese agrees to settle with the victims of the abuse and pay them a settlement of $660 million.
And so now these churches need to pay off this huge molestation settlement, so they decide to make some money by selling a property they own. That property? The convent. However, there's a problem. Those elderly nuns I mentioned? They live there. And now these nuns, we'll just call them the nuns. There's only five of them, but they've been living there for decades.
But the archdiocese is like, whatever, bitches, we own this place. And in 2011, boom, they kick them all out. And this kicks off a whole dispute because, see, the nuns feel like they own the property. Because back in 1971, they originally pooled all of their money together and purchased it themselves, using every dollar they had saved.
However, for some reason, the Archdiocese feels like the property belongs to them. And because they feel like it belongs to them, they're like, f*** you, we're selling it! And that is when in 2014, along comes Katy Perry, looking to take some of her pop star money and buy herself a big ass mansion. And she sees this convent and she loves it. She'll do anything to get it.
She wants to turn it into a house. So she offers $14.5 million. And the archdiocese, they accept, like immediately. They don't ask the nuns permission or anything. They just agree and the deal starts moving forward. And so, of course, the nuns are pissed. I mean, they've lived there for decades, and the church is just going to come along and sell it out from under them?
And to make it even worse, the nuns look Katy Perry up. I mean, they don't know who she is. They're nuns. And let's just say they are not super impressed with her work. Because, you know, she has songs like, I Kissed a Girl and You're So Gay. But specifically, in one interview back in the day, Katy Perry made a joke about selling her soul to the devil.
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