Katy Perry says that winning $ 6 million in the struggle of the mansion against the old man would be

Los Angeles (AP) – A lawyer asked Katy Perry on Tuesday if he was standing to earn money or anything else in a long legal fight for a California mansion.

“Justice” was the response of a word of the superstar of the song, the former “American Idol” judge and the recent astronaut, part of an hour of remote testimony he gave in a room of the Los Angeles court.

In his tense and careful testimony, Perry would not directly admit that he stood up to earn money if he won, but said: “I have to lose money if it doesn’t work in my favor.”

She spoke during the second test in a dispute about a $ 15 million mansion in Luxury Montecito near Santa Barbara that she and former partner Orlando Bloom bought in 2020.

The seller, Carl Westcott, 85, said he was not mentally competent to reach the agreement and sued to undo it.

Perry’s side, technically, the defendant was his commercial manager, Bernie Gudvi, prevailed in the first trial in 2023. Then, Gudvi, which represents Perry, countered $ 6 million for the lost rental income caused by the legal struggle and millions of maintenance that the Chamber supposedly required. That brought the current sequel test.

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Westcott’s lawyer, Andrew J. Thomas, often tried to direct the conversation to Bloom. The Joseph Lipner Superior Court judge ruled that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and the actor of the “Lord of the Rings” do not have to testify because it would be redundant and unnecessary, despite the fact that the house is the official property of a company that established.

When asked if he had any role in a remodeling of the Bloom house supervised, Perry replied that he acted as “partner and advisor.”

The couple, who separated in July, has a daughter together whose fifth birthday was Tuesday.

When asked about the nature of his association, Perry replied: “We are a family for life.”

Perry’s lawyer Eric Rowen opposed almost all Thomas as irrelevant questions, including most of the Bloom consultations, which Lipner maintained to a minimum.

Rowen opposed himself when Perry was asked if he knew that Westcott had entered a mental institution before in the legal fight, apparently suggesting that the question was an attack for the good of the media present.

“This is, I don’t want to say that it is not ethical, but this is simply an effort to boost a narrative to the parties outside this court,” Rowen said. The judge suffered his objection and the question was not allowed.

The judge and lawyers referred to Perry as “Miss Hudson.” His legal name is Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson.

Thomas asked Perry repeatedly if he had had enough cash to buy the $ 15 million mansion directly.

“I could have done it,” he said finally, “but wanted to make a mortgage.”

Perry admitted that in the previous trial, he said he had the intention of living in the mansion, not to rent it. But tenants, including the family of actor Chris Pratt, are fundamental to this trial. There was a discussion about Pratt testifying, but was not on the final list of witnesses.

There was a light moment at the end of Perry’s testimony when he described some deals with Westcott and said: “I was pregnant at that time.”

He could not be listened clearly and Lipner said he had heard: “It was private.”

“No, pregnant!” Perry said with a smile.

Perry’s own lawyer refused to interrogate her and the judge excused her.

Like the previous trial, it has no jury, and Lipner will decide the result. Perry’s testimony arrived on the fourth day of the procedures that are expected to continue for two more days.

It is not the first long public fight that Perry has had on a property. He previously addressed the court with an order of nuns that fought to stop the sale of a convent he had bought. She prevailed in that case.

He also testified in a lawsuit that claimed that she and her co-writers had stolen key elements of her successful “Dark Horse” song by a Christian musician. She lost in the trial, but won in appeal.