Katy Perry is set to stand trial with the family of the 84-year-old veteran homeowner after she was ordered to testify in the ‘exhausting’ legal battle over the $15 million Montecito mansion.

Katy Perry faces a fiery courtroom showdown with the family of the dying veteran who was forced to surrender his Montecito mansion in a years-long property dispute, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Ailing Carl Westcott, 84, agreed to sell his eight-bed home to Perry in 2020 for $15 million, but days later tried to scuttle the deal by claiming he was under the influence of painkillers when signed.

A court ruled the contract was legal and late last year Perry was declared the rightful owner of the 1930s gated estate, which boasts a tennis court, two guesthouses and a swimming pool.

The Firework singer still wants to shave around $6 million off the award, however, claiming the bedridden eight-year-old – currently receiving hospice care for Huntington’s disease – owes huge sums in repairs and lost income from the rent.

But she will have to make her case in person after a California judge ruled that Perry must testify in an upcoming damages trial, where she will face Westcott’s furious relatives, who say the ‘exhausting’ battle has taken a toll on their loved one. the last days of the patriarch.

Katy Perry has been ordered to testify in an upcoming trial about damages during the years-long legal battle over the Montecito mansion

Carl Westcott, with his sons Court (center) and Chart in 2016, is currently receiving hospice care for Huntington’s disease

DailyMail.com understands that all of Westcott’s immediate family, including his sons Chart and Court Westcott – who is married to Real Housewives of Dallas alum Kameron Westcott – all plan to attend LA Superior Court.

“It’s clear she’s trying to squeeze every last dollar out of Carl’s family without an ounce of sensitivity at the expense of an old man’s inheritance,” a family friend told us.

The fact is, the Westcott family wants her to face them because they believe they deserve it. She has taken over their father’s house and now she wants the shirt off his back.

“The least she can do is look everyone in the eye while she does it.

The sprawling 9,285-square-foot compound in the Santa Ynez foothills has been registered under owner DDoveB, a nod to Perry’s three-year-old daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, since May.

Perry has put $9 million in escrow to pay Westcott, a famous veteran of the US Army’s 101st Airborne, who was born into a ‘dirty poor’ family in Mississippi.

He grew up in a shotgun house with no plumbing, but moved to LA where he went on to build several successful companies including 1-800-Flowers.

His father had only a second-grade education and could not read or write, and Westcott was sent to a home for juvenile delinquents for selling school lunch vouchers.

But he got his life together when he moved to LA as a teenager and started selling cars, eventually opening his own dealership.

he singer, 39, successfully acquired the massive estate through her LLC, DDoveB, named for her daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, on May 17.

Carl Westcott grew up ‘the poorest of the poor’ in Mississippi in a shotgun house with no plumbing.

Perry and her longtime partner Orlando Bloom wrote a personal letter to Westcott after selling the property in 2020

“When you’re poor in Mississippi, that’s the poorest of the poor,” Westcott once said.

“We didn’t have a car and I always thought people with cars were rich. Actually, I thought people with lawns were pretty awesome.’

Exactly how much of the remaining $6 million balance is owed to Perry will be determined by the second phase of their protracted, four-year court saga.

The damages trial was originally scheduled to take place this month, lasting several days. But Westcott’s lawyers begged for more time after Perry — worth an estimated $350 million — hired 25 experts to clean house of mistakes.

They will argue that the two-acre property needs repairs for water damage, an oak tree that fell on a building and other maintenance issues that arose while it waited years to settle.

She is also seeking about $3.5 million in lost rent she allegedly could have earned on the luxury condo, despite stating at the time of the sale that she planned to raise her daughter there.

Perry’s lawyers argued at a June 20 hearing that she and Bloom – who is also likely to be called and asked to testify – were essentially ‘laymen’ and would rely on the statements of professional construction experts .

But Judge Joseph Lipner insisted: “As I sit here this minute, I certainly expect Ms. Perry to testify.”

DailyMail.com previously revealed how Perry was embroiled in the extraordinary dispute with Westcott after he claimed his judgment was clouded by powerful medication and ill health when he signed the deal on July 15, 2020.

He had only bought the house in May of that year and moved in two months before dealing with Perry’s agent, Bernie Goodvi, who agreed to pay him $3,750,000 more than he bought it for.

The then 80-year-old had been released from hospital just four days before the signing after undergoing a six-hour back operation.

He was on a powerful cocktail of opiates to numb the pain, his lawyers said.

When the medication wore off, Westcott said he realized he had made a mistake and informed Berkshire Hathaway by email on July 22 that he no longer intended to sell.

“The combination of his age, weakness from his back condition and recent surgery, and the opiates he was taking several times a day made Mr. Westcott mentally unstable,” his complaint argued.

Perry and Bloom’s agents ignored Westcott’s plea, writing to him days later to warn that they would sue if he did not give up the property.

Westcott’s family began the fight on his behalf after he became bedridden and mentally incapacitated by Huntington’s disease, which attacks the brain and can cause progressive dementia.

She won the first phase of their trial last year after Judge Lipner ruled there was ‘no convincing evidence’ that Westcott lacked the capacity to sign the contract.

At a June 20 hearing, Perry’s lawyers argued that she and Bloom — who is also likely to be called and asked to testify at trial — were essentially “laymen” and would instead to rely on the statements of professional construction experts.

In 2015, Perry was in a battle with elderly Catholic nuns over the sale of a convent. Sister Rita Callanan (right) and Sister Catherine Rose Holzman lived on the eight-acre property that includes a 30,000-square-foot Spanish-Gothic home to in 2011

“There is no reason to withdraw. The contract must be honored,” he concluded, leaving only the issue of damages to be determined — essentially how much of a discount to give Perry, who did not testify in person.

This wasn’t the first time Perry had run into legal trouble when it came to buying a home.

In 2015, she clashed with elderly Catholic nuns over the sale of a convent she bought in 2015, paying $14.5 million in cash to Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez.

Sister Rita Callanan and Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, who had lived at the convent since the 1970s, claimed Gomez had no right to download the property and said they sold it last week for $15.5 million.

But the Archdiocese sued to block their deal, arguing that it was the nuns who had overstepped their authority.

A judge ruled against the nuns in 2016 and awarded Perry and the Archdiocese more than $15 million in damages.

During the 2018 legal battle, Sister Holzman, 89, collapsed and died during a court appearance.

This prompted Sister Callanan, the only surviving nun living in the Order of the Most Sacred and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin, to declare that Perry had ‘blood on her hands’.