2019-10-16 The Hollywood Reporter

HOLLYWOOD DESIGN

INSIDE THE

KATY PERRY

CONVENT

AN L.A. HOUSE

HISTORIAN SHARES

NEVER-SEEN IMAGES OF

THE LOS FELIZ NUNNERY

THAT SPARKED A

REAL ESTATE WAR

BY PETER KIEFER

ong before Katy Perry set her

sights on owning a Los Feliz

convent, the property on

Waverly Drive was a canvas

for a Hollywood set designer

turned interior decorator

named Harold Grieve. The year was 1927, and

local radio station owner Earle C. Anthony hired

Grieve to decorate his recently built Bernard

Maybeck-designed estate. “I think Grieve’s

work on the Anthony house was some of his

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The swimming pool

at the 8.5-acre

convent in Los Feliz,

in the 1920s.

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More recently in

2015, Katy Perry

agreed to buy

the Waverly Drive

property from

the Archdiocese,

contingent on

her finding a

replacement for use

by local clergy.

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An aerial view of the

L.A. property.

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In 2015, a nun with

Dana Hollister

outside L.A. Superior

Court, where they

battled Perry and the

local Archdiocese

over the right to buy

the property.

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