Now we get the 'Gilmore Girls' joke about Katy Perry and some nuns
Remember in the Gilmore Girls revival when Lorelai Gilmore wanted to buy an old building owned by nuns to expand the Dragonfly Inn?
"If you're interested you better move fast," one of the nuns told her. "Katy Perry was sniffing around here earlier."
If you didn't get the joke then, here's the explanation: Since 2015, Perry has been locked in a legal battle with a group of nuns in Los Angeles.
Perry purchased a former convent for $14.5 million from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. A group of nuns who used to live in the convent with the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary opposed the sale and tried instead to sell the property to another buyer, Dana Hollister.
Hollister reportedly planned to turn the property into a boutique hotel, while Perry wanted to turn the convent into a private home.
On Friday, a jury ruled in favor of Perry and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, upholding their agreement to sell. The two parties were awarded $5 million in legal fees and will have the chance to recover punitive damages for Hollister acting with "malice, oppression, or fraud" in the trial's second phase next month.
Now Katy Perry has a convent and Gilmore Girls' 2016 joke is relevant again.
Just don't try to buy the Stars Hollow convent out from under Lorelai, Katy.
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Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable. Before joining Mashable, she covered business and metro news at the Houston Chronicle.
