Animal-cruelty conviction for owner of Grace Kelly home in Pa.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An elderly woman has been convicted of animal cruelty in what authorities say was a cat-hoarding situation in childhood home of Hollywood icon Grace Kelly.

Marjorie Bamont, 82, was found guilty Wednesday of 16 counts of animal cruelty and ordered to pay $10,000 restitution to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She is also banned from owning animals for four years.

SPCA agents seized a dead cat, 14 live cats and a dog on Oct. 31 from the large home in the city’s leafy East Falls neighborhood.

Investigators said Bamont has owned the home since 1973. It was owned by the Academy Award-winning screen legend’s mother, Margaret Kelly, until 1970.

Grace Kelly, who was married to Prince Rainier of Monaco, died in a 1982 car crash.