The son of an ailing veteran who is embroiled in a $5 million lawsuit with Katy Perry over a $15 million Montecito mansion has opened up about the brutal emotional toll the yearslong case has had on his father — revealing the family’s desperate desire for the case to end so they can spend their dad’s remaining days “in peace.”

Carl Westcott, 85, a businessman who founded the company 1-800-Flowers, became embroiled in a five-year legal battle with Perry, 41, after he agreed to sell his $15 million Montecito, CA, home to the pop star in 2020, only to try to back out just days later, claiming he had been under the influence of painkillers when he agreed to the sale.

Perry and Westcott spent the next three years locked in a bitter dispute over the property, before a judge granted ownershi

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