LOS ANGELES — A Silver Lake businesswoman testified Nov. 9 she believed the Los Angeles archbishop was not opposed to her $15.5 million proposal to buy a former convent in Los Feliz and had begun making plans for the future when she was surprised to learn that an offer from Katy Perry was still being…
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LOS ANGELES — Katy Perry’s bid to buy a former Los Feliz convent in 2015 and live there with her mother was thwarted by interference from a wealthy Silver Lake businesswoman who wanted to transform the property into a boutique hotel, a lawyer for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles told a jury Nov. 6. In…
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LOS ANGELES — A decade after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles paid about $600 million to settle allegations of clergy abuse, memories of the scandal loomed over a downtown courtroom Oct. 30 as prospective jurors were interviewed for a trial pitting the religious body and singer Katy Perry against a businesswoman concerning the purchase of…
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