FILE – In this Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 file photo, Katy Perry performs on stage at the “Witness: The Tour” concert at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A jury has found that a businesswoman must pay $5 million to singer Perry and the archdiocese of Los Angeles, finding that she intentionally interfered with the sale to Perry of a hilltop property that was once a convent. The jury found Friday, Nov. 17, 2017, that Dana Hollister should pay the archdiocese $3.47 million and Perry $1.57 million for interference with contractual relations and other misdeeds. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has found that a businesswoman must pay $5 million to singer Katy Perry and the archdiocese of Los Angeles, finding that the woman intentionally interfered with the sale to Perry of a hilltop property that was once a convent.
The jury found Friday that entrepreneur Dana Hollister should pay the archdiocese $3.47 million and Perry $1.57 million for interference with contractual relations and other misdeeds.
The 33-year-old pop star has sought to buy the 8-acre property and its Roman-villa style buildings in the city’s Los Feliz neighborhood for $14.5 million, and to relocate an adjoining house of prayer used by priests. Her bid has the approval of Los Angeles’ archbishop.
But Hollister stepped in and attempted to purchase the property from two nuns who had lived there. A judge voided that sale earlier this year, saying the archdiocese had the right to sell the property, not the nuns.
The jury found that her…
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