Calvin Harris’ Ex-Business Manager Denies $22M Fraud Claims: ‘Categorically False’

Calvin Harris‘ erstwhile longtime concern manager is firing backmost against bombshell fraud claims, saying helium ne'er stole from anybody and that the Scottish DJ willingly agreed to put successful his Los Angeles existent property improvement project.

Thomas St. John, an amusement industry-focused accountant who runs the eponymous steadfast Thomas St. John Group, is presently wrapped up successful thorny arbitration proceedings with his erstwhile lawsuit Harris (Adam Wiles). He’s accused of abusing his entree to Harris’ accounts successful bid to money his broadside venture: the operation of a signaling workplace and bureau abstraction analyzable successful Hollywood.

Harris claims that St. John tricked him into investing $22.5 cardinal successful the project, known arsenic CMNTY Culture Campus, which helium says turned retired to beryllium a “complete boondoggle” that helium “has not received a azygous penny successful instrumentality for” — portion suggesting that St. John pocketed overmuch of the wealth for himself.  

However, a typical for St. John says successful a caller connection that the allegations are “categorically false.” The rep denies that St. John engaged successful immoderate self-dealing, adding that Harris is 1 of 9 above-board investors who “knowingly signed concern agreements” to get progressive successful CMNTY Culture.

“Not a azygous dollar has been misappropriated, each capitalist entitlements stay intact, and the task continues to beforehand wrong the mean entitlement timeline,” says St. John’s rep successful the Tuesday (Sept. 23) statement. “We volition proceed to instrumentality each indispensable measurement to acceptable the grounds consecutive and to guarantee that these malicious, bad-faith attacks are recognized for what they are: wholly without merit.”

While CMNTY Culture was initially designed to location a signaling workplace and bureau space, St. John has since shifted the plans and is present processing a residential flat analyzable connected the aforesaid tract of onshore successful Hollywood. According to his rep, the task is proceeding apace and “is expected to attack a $1 cardinal valuation” upon completion.

“While the entitlement process has people taken longer than initially projected owed to unprecedented interest, macroeconomic conditions and important metropolis reddish tape, it remains firmly wrong its promised docket and is present connected the verge of securing last entitlements, an important milestone that volition unlock important value,” adds St. John’s rep.

Thomas St. John Group has offices successful Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm. The absorption firm’s U.S. limb precocious filed for bankruptcy, citing hundreds of thousands of dollars successful unpaid rent successful L.A. and aggregate pending ineligible actions.

One creditor listed successful the firm’s bankruptcy papers is Philip Lawrence, a songwriter and shaper who made his sanction collaborating with Bruno Mars. Lawrence utilized to beryllium a lawsuit of St. John’s and astatine 1 constituent invested $10 cardinal from the merchantability of his catalog into CMNTY Culture Campus, according to tribunal filings successful Lawrence’s ain idiosyncratic bankruptcy case.