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Katy Perry and her husband Orlando Bloom are involved in a legal battle with an 84-year-old veteran Carl Westcott- previous owner of the $15 million Santa Barbara mansion they bought in July 2020...
Carl's son Chart and family members are now front-lining an act called Protecting Elder Realty for Retirement Years Act aka The Katy Perry Act..
The Katy PERRY Act addresses the risks of elder financial abuse, especially as it relates to property and real estate sales and transfers, states the website..
Documents submitted in the Los Angeles County Superior Court argue: 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 [Westcotts] mental faculties to the point he was of unsound mind and not competent to give his free, voluntary, or intelligent consent to the contract..
It's crucial to protect vulnerable individuals from financial abuse, especially the elderly, wrote a user on X appreciating the initiative. 2nd time KP has allegedly sued over not being able to purchase a property from an elderly personstarting to see a trend, added another user..
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