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We found theft in a hopeless boondoggle! Allegedly, of course. Billboard<\/a> reported on Monday that Calvin Harris<\/a> (whose real name is Adam Wiles), the celebrity DJ best known for his work on hits like \u201cWe Found Love,\u201d has accused his longtime financial adviser Thomas St. John of stealing $22.5 million to fund a shady real-estate project.<\/p>\n According to Billboard, Harris and St. John have been in arbitration since June. In his arbitration demand, the Scottish DJ accused St. John and his co-conspirators of breach of contract, fraud, and malpractice. People<\/a> reported that St. John convinced Harris to invest in CMNTY Culture Campus, a 460,000-square-foot real-estate development \u201cin the heart of Hollywood, California, for musicians, recording engineers, entertainers, and creatives, and was to include recording studios, artists\u2019 lounges, and office space,\u201d according to the arbitration demand. The project, which had been in the works since around 2020, reportedly ran out of cash in 2023, at which point St. John went to Harris for an investment.<\/p>\n Things get very murky from there. In the demand, Harris\u2019s attorneys claim that St. John gave his client no information about the project, but just sent over Docusign forms that were \u201cmaterially misleading.\u201d St. John then allegedly created Claimant Lewsi LLC, through which he signed over $22.5 million to the development in Harris\u2019s name. Of that, $10 million was a loan that Harris claims was never paid back and $12.5 million was an equity stake in the project, which Harris says in his arbitration demand \u201chas been, at best, a complete boondoggle, and, at worst, a complete fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Wiles has not received a single penny in return for that investment, and, indeed, respondents have not even started developing or building the project,\u201d reads the arbitration demand. \u201cIn fact, shortly after Mr. Wiles purportedly made this $12.5 million investment, [St. John] \u2026 distributed over $11 million dollars to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n