Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Montecito Mansion Trial Interrupted After Woman Storms into Courtroom

As testimony continued Thursday in court docket for Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s authorized battle with enterprise entrepreneur Carl Westcott over a Montecito home, the proceedings took an sudden flip when a lady stormed into the courtroom.

The drama occurred throughout the afternoon session when Dr. Daniel Franc, an professional neurologist referred to as to the stand by the star couple’s enterprise supervisor Bernie Gudvi, was answering questions on Westcott’s “cognitive capability” from July 2020 (following Perry and Bloom’s buy of the house for $15 million).

An unidentified girl barged twice into the room, the place a PEOPLE reporter was current: the primary time, the court docket clerk requested her to settle down and depart, and Westcott’s lawyer Andrew Thomas, who appeared shaken, urged deputies to be referred to as. After the lady stormed into court docket once more, deputies arrived to take away her from the courtroom.

The decide — who requested these current to remain within the courtroom till deputies deemed the state of affairs protected — later shared that the lady was somebody who was upset from a earlier case he presided over.

Bloom, 46, and Perry, 38, are tangling with 84-year-old Westcott, who filed a swimsuit in opposition to Gudvi in an try and cease the sale, over their 2020 buy of a Thirties mansion in Montecito.

The non-jury trial kicked off earlier this week, and Thomas advised the court docket throughout opening statements on Wednesday that his shopper had been displaying indicators of “delusion” and “intrusive ideas” after taking painkillers, hydrocodone, gabapentin and tramadol when he offered his dwelling to the couple on July 15. Thomas additionally claimed Westcott had spinal surgical procedure on his again, and that the contract for the sale was introduced to Westcott whereas he was nonetheless recovering from “post-operative delirium.”

Eric Rowan, an lawyer for Gudvi, argued that Westcott’s degenerative mind analysis had not impacted Westcott’s psychological capability and that he had been recovering from his operation when he bought the house six weeks prior in Might 2020. Rowan additionally claimed Westcott was not identified with “delicate psychological incapacity” till a yr later.

Perry additionally countersued Westcott, asking for the home, $2.7 million to cowl the price of a close-by rental and maintenance and $2.6 million in damages for the misplaced hire she might have earned from the mansion to this point.

Earlier this week, the decide dominated that Perry should testify later this month for her countersuit, including, “I’m not inclined to have a closed court docket. She is an individual like anybody else. She is asking for some huge cash.”

Closing arguments in Westcott’s swimsuit are anticipated to start Nov. 3.