Katy Perry Wins Lawsuit Over California Property and Will Receive Over $3 Million — People
A court has ordered millionaire Carl Westcott to pay Katy Perry more than $3 million in legal fees. The ruling comes at the end of a years-long legal battle over a California estate.
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In the U.S., a Los Angeles court ordered Texas millionaire Carl Westcott to pay over $3 million in legal fees to singer Katy Perry after losing a long-running legal dispute over the sale of a California estate
On May 28, a Los Angeles judge ruled that the 41-year-old singer is entitled to reimbursement of over $3 million in attorney fees and nearly $345,000 in court costs through her business manager, Bernie Goodwin.
This compensation is in addition to the previously awarded $1.8 million that Perry’s team received after the court ruled against Westcott in November 2025.
The dispute began nearly six years ago when Perry and her then-fiancé Orlando Bloom purchased a $15 million estate in Montecito, California, from Westcott in August 2020. A few days after the deal was closed, the businessman attempted to rescind the sale, claiming mental incapacity. Back in 2015, he was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, a genetic brain disorder.
Westcott subsequently filed a lawsuit against Goodwin, but the court concluded that there was no “compelling evidence” to support his claims. The judge noted that during the transaction, the businessman appeared “coherent, engaged in the process, lucid, and rational.”
On November 25, California Superior Court Judge Joseph Lipner in Los Angeles County ruled that Perry is entitled to $1,842,142.84 in compensation.
This amount includes $2.795 million in rental value of the house for the period of delay in closing the deal—from the time of sale in September 2020 through March 2024. At the same time, the value of the capital preserved, amounting to $1,062,736, and the interest income lost by Westcott, amounting to $149,703, were deducted from this amount.
Perry’s team then sought an additional $4.5 million in compensation for nearly 5,000 hours of legal work. However, Judge Lipner deemed this amount “excessively high for a case of this nature.”
The court also noted that as part of the $15 million estate sale agreement, Goodwin paid Westcott $9 million and retained $6 million from the purchase price. The court allowed the $1.8 million awarded to be deducted from the remaining funds.
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