Recovering drug addict Scott Storch was arrested at a Las Vegas hotel earlier this month after cops found him in possession of cocaine.

According to TMZ, a hotel employee called police to complain that Storch wouldn’t pay for his room. When cops arrived, they discovered that he had some cocaine on him, and he was arrested on site and taken to jail. He was later released after posting $5,000 bail.

Scott Storch is famous for the work he has done with the likes of Beyonce, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Pink and countless others, but he is also famous for blowing the $30 million fortune he earned after getting hooked on drugs back in 2006.

Storch has been in and out of rehab trying to shake his addiction ever since, and from the looks of it … the road to recovery is a long one.

It’s no secret that producer and former hit-maker Scott Storch is broke. How you can go broke with millions and millions of dollars in your bank account is beyond us, but apparently doing a lot of coke (NOT the drink) and dropping dough on private planes and expensive get-a-ways did the trick for Mr. Storch. And now he’s suffering big time!

The same guy who’s made millions of dollars creating hits for Beyonce, 50 Cent, T.I., Chris Brown, Snoop Dogg and others lost his Florida mansion to SunTrust bank recently after defaulting on his loan. He had declared bankruptcy last year, but apparently that wasn’t enough and the bank decided to buy the property back at an auction last Friday (Aug 21) for $5.5 million.

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Big time producer Scott Storch has signed on to to star in a reality show about his comeback to the music industry.

Storch, who has cooked up hits for singers like Beyonce, Chris Brown, 50 Cent, Danity Kane, etc., fell off the radar earlier this year when he missed payments on his $10 million Miami mansion, became a wanted man for owing the IRS almost $1 million in back taxes, and above all … started using cocaine.

The show will be produced by Bunim/Murray Productions (Real World, Road Rules, Project Runway, etc.). It will most likely air sometime next year.

We’re definitely excited for this. Storch has never really allowed cameras to detail exactly how his hits are made. Not to mention how interesting it will be to see if he can really make a comeback. Will you be watching when it airs?

In 2006, Scott Storch was a pretty successful producer and basically a household name. Having worked on hits for the biggest artists in the game including Beyonce, 50 Cent, T.I., Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Nas, Snoop Dogg and many more, his bank account was pretty loaded! But he recently revealed to MTV News how he basically threw away over $30 million in less than a year.

To make a long story short, he got addicted to drugs and stopped caring about his career. His manager Derek Jackson, who has known Storch on a personal level for nearly 20 years says his abrupt rise and fall was “historical.”

“[It was] unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Jackson told MTV News. “Historical! It was historical without question. … Honestly, about three years ago, he got really shady. And that’s the best term I could use. He went from what his normal vices were to suddenly becoming a person who was infatuated with the drug, and I saw it constantly.”

“A lot of the work that we would do and how much we would do of it, that started to scale back. I have to say the magic month was August of 2006,” Jackson continued. “I will never forget it. It will be something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. You know, ’06 for us was the magic year; we hit Lotto. Everything worked. I mean, there was nothing that we did that did not work. I gotta honestly say, outside of my kids, it was the greatest year of my life. It was so many [hit records] I can’t even tell you. That was the year he won [ASCAP's] Songwriter of the Year [award]. We broke records — lots of [chart] records we broke and he did them quick. It was just a wonderful year, but I think it was defined by that magic month of August. He ran into the Hollywood class — and when he went to Hollywood, all things changed.”

Most notably, Storch went on vacation.

“It was the first time he took off in, I would say, the duration of his career. I’ve been with him since he was 17 years old. I found Scott [playing keyboards with] the Roots in 1992, so for the duration of that, he’s always been a worker bee, that’s just his spirit. But in August of 06′, we took a month off. It was over. Never came back.”

Literally. Storch got addicted to drugs and just stopped caring about his career.

“Scott, I have to be real because, once again, it’s about a story that has to be told,” Jackson said. “We made a lot of money — I mean a lot of money that year [2006]. And Scott — in all honesty — he was broke by January. It was the quickest [loss] of money that I’ve ever seen in my entire life.”

“The cost of the drug didn’t effect my life,” Storch weighed in. “It was the poor decisions I made, that were so poor financially, that caused me to go into this situation where I was forced to change my lifestyle … forced to change a lot of things.

“[I had] 15 to 20 cars at all times,” he continued.” That’s not smart. I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It’s like it didn’t make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars! I didn’t need a 117-foot boat.”

“Cars!,” Jackson explained of how Storch lost his fortune so quickly. “Private jets are expensive — please leave them alone if you can’t afford them. Trips to the Riviera on a private jet is $250,000 one way. I’m talking about, it was a routine [with Scott]. Spending on others — if you can’t take care of yourself, how you gonna take care of everybody else? And it got out of control.”

Storch weighed in, “I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.”

As much as he was making, Storch was spending double on drugs and overly luxurious living. He was out of control, and Jackson takes some of the blame for not intervening sooner.

“I was an enabler, I was an enabler,” Jackson admits. “And it wasn’t until I got a phone call — rest in peace [former Def Jam Records President Shakir Stewart, who died of an apparent suicide last year]. My man, one of my closest and dearest friends in the music business, said, ‘D, what are you doing? Scott has Janet Jackson sitting in his studio and it’s going on five hours. Where is he at? What are you doing, D? What are you doing?’ And I knew the routine started to become like that. We did it to a lot of people in ’07. It’s when it all went bad. We had people sit in the studio for upwards of 10 hours at a time. And I would never be real to [Scotty]. I guess I got to a point where I stopped caring. We made money, I watched him blow it, I didn’t care anymore. But then I watched that phone call come from Shakir.”

Eventually Jackson would exhaust himself trying to get his friend to clean up, so he resigned as Storch’s manager. Scott still didn’t get point: His addiction had tapped his inspiration to make music.

“It started affecting me where my own son would be like, ‘Dad, what’s up? When’s the next hit record coming up?’ ” Storch recalled. “I didn’t have a answer for him.”

It wasn’t until 18 months later that Storch and Jackson would see each other again. Storch had decided he needed help.

“[It was] probably in the worst state I’ve seen [anyone] in my life,” Jackson said of Storch. “Somebody that you knew when they were young and full of zest and fire and excitable — the spirit that the kid had was incredible. But to come back to black eyes, bloodied and bowed and unlike the person you knew. To be quite frank, he was a junkie. He was a junkie. And it was unlike anything I had seen in him, ever. Ever.”

Jackson checked Storch into a rehab facility called Recovery First. Thomas Trevino, a mental health tech and a three-quarter-way manager at Recovery First has been working with Storch for the past few months.

“I can clearly remember the first day he came in,” Trevino recalled. “The guy just looked like many others clients we’ve got: emotionally, physically and spiritually broken. Throughout the time, he resided in our in-patient program and he eventually graduated into an out-patient program; he was then taken into our three-quarter way house.

“I have seen him change,” Trevino continued. “I’ve seen his mind is totally opposite from day one. The guy couldn’t even carry on a clear conversation when he first came in. And now I have been having the honor and privilege to come with him to the studio a couple times and check him out, see what he’s doing. And it seems like he’s back on track, man. He’s a great inspiration for many out there who are trying to do this line of work — and at the same time he’s a great inspiration for many drug addicts out there who want to stay clean and live this way of life.”

“It’s just that type of deal,” Storch — who is still under treatment — said of his fall and his climb back to the top. “I’ve lived it, done it. I’ve been around a lot of greats I seen in this industry that have problems, but the comeback can be that much greater. It’s a well of creativity in my mind right now; it’s not being hindered and being in love with the music again — seeing the day and taking advantage of the opportunities I’ve been afforded.”

Storch is back at work, and says he’s better than ever. He’s in the studio with the Game for three days, and next week goes to Orlando to work with Chris Brown. There’s also a track in the works involving him, Quincy Jones and Jennifer Hudson, as well as Kat DeLuna’s potential first single. Outside of music, he’s been shooting a reality show and has guest appearances from the Kardashians.

“This is God’s work,” Jackson opined. “So he has to respect that. I just hope that the people out there that watch this take the time to understand that even in the lowest of moments — because it was low for me, it took a year out of my life, it destroyed my life because I was so in tune to him — to always remember you can come back, you can clean your life up. You can be the same again. It’s never too late. Never too late — never! So hopefully from this, people will understand that there’s always a tomorrow.”

SOURCE: MTV

You guys remember that Bentley Scott Storch leased and never returned? Turns out, Lil Kim‘s ol’ scary lookin @ss is involved in all of this mess too! New reports are suggesting that the vehicle (estimated to be worth $250,000) that was repossessed from the rapper around this time last year actually belonged to Scott Storch, who was just arrested and charged with grand theft auto Friday for failing to return the leased Bentley.

The repo company figured out he had given the car to Kim so that’s why they went to her home back in May 2008 and took it back. Storch, who is currently in rehab for a drug addiction, posted an undisclosed amount of bail when he was arrested, and is required to appear in Broward County Court on May 29th. And Kim is supposed to take the witness stand!

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According to the police report, Storch began leasing a 2004 Bentley GT in February 2006 and was set to return it in March 2008. Well, here it is April 2009 and apparently, Scott Storch never turned in the vehicle! And Atlas Leasing Company, the owners of the vehicle, say they have been looking for the car for over 7 months! They said Storch failed to comply with the terms of their leasing agreement and they claim his negligence has cost the company $65,000 in revenue that could have been accruing from other potential clients who wanted to lease the Bentley.

Once he was arrested and booked, Storch posted an undisclosed amount of bail and went on his way. No word yet on a court date.

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He’s wanted for animal abuse, drug possession and theft of services charges for defrauding a local clinic of $7,500 in services back in April when he used a fake name to escape medical bills. His friends say he’s in rehab right now trying to kick his long-time drug habit.

If he doesn’t post a $120,000 cash bond by tomorrow, he’ll be extradited back to Arizona and they’ll handle him there.

Now, our question: What the hell was he doing at Scott Storch’s house?

“She didn’t have candles on the sheets. She did not smoke in the hotel room. It is completely untrue,” said her spokesperson.

C’mon, $400 bucks? That may seem a bit much to folks like me and you, but to a millionaire supermodel that’s chump change! Just pay the people so they can shut up… More headlines from your favorite celebrities when you continue reading.

ROMEO PICKS COLLEGE BASKETBALL OVER FILM ROLE » Rapper/actor Romeo has reportedly passed up on the opportunity to star in a film so that he can focus 100% of his time on his freshman year in college. The young entrepreneur will be attending and playing basketball USC (University of Southern California) in the fall.

According to a press release from an outlet called “Hollywood Movie Report,” the actor was supposed to star in “Sweetwater,” a biopic about the first African-American player signed by the NBA. But the release stated that “he could not appear in a film related to basketball and remain eligible to play for his college team due to NCAA regulations.”

Sunset pictures, the production company behind the film, says that they fully support Romeo’s decision and has plans on working with him after he completes college in 2012.

SCOTT STORCH’S MIAMI MANSION UNDERGOING FORECLOSURE » How is that a person can be responsible for so many hit records, and have so much money, but have nothing to show for it? Well just ask Scott Storch how he did it! Word on the sidewalk is that the hit-maker is on the verge of losing his $10 million mansion to SunTrust. According to the Palm Beach Post, Storch reportedly took out two loans with SunTrust worth a combined total of $7.75 million to purchase the house, and now the bank is foreclosing on it because he has not made payments in several months, despite borrowing close to 200 g’s from close friends.

In addition to possibly losing his home, the guy has a warrant out for his arrest for not paying child support. Kids, just because you make millions doesn’t mean you have to spend ALL of it on a damn house! Not to mention the jewelry, the cars, the clothes, and the hoes. After you go through all of that, and you stop making the money … yeah, you’re gonna end up broke, in debt, and running from the law … just like Mr. Storch. Did he not learn from MC Hammer???

DMX PLEADS “NOT GUILTY” TO IDENTITY THEFT » This DMX guy is a character, I swear. It has been reported that the cracked out rapper decided to use yesterday’s court appearance in Phoenix as an opportunity to plug an upcoming album that no one probably even cares about. After pleading not guilty to felony charges of theft and identity theft, he left the hearing and rapped: “If you ever fall down, get back up,” he rapped. “Drop something, stop fretting, pick that … back up, stand for something or fall for everything, wait for the right pitch or miss with every swing.” The 37-year-old rapper, real name: Earl Simmons, is due to appear in court again on August 12th to face charges of drug possession and cruelty to animals, stemming from an incident in May of this year. Somebody just needs to lock his ass in jail and throw away the key. He’s apparently a danger to himself and the people surrounding him.