Legendary singer Sir Elton John is suing a Dubai-based banker for failing to honour a £700,000 ($1.1m) donation to his AIDS foundation.

UAE-based Spencer Lodge pledged the cash for a ‘date’ with the British singer during a charity auction at Sir Elton’s White
Tie and Tiara Ball in June 2010, the Daily Mail said. The event, held at the singer’s mansion, featured a performance by Lady
Gaga and helped raise over £5m for the Foundation. Lodge reportedly signed a contract promising to pay the cash to the Elton
John Aids Foundation but has, to date, failed to hand over the money. After numerous attempts were made asking Lodge to honour
the pledge, the Foundation has launched a High Court action in London to recover the money, the newspaper said. Unnamed sources
told the paper that Sir Elton was fully supportive of the legal action. “The lot was a one-off opportunity to make his charity
an astonishing amount of money,” the source said. “Organisers had actually secured another bid of £650,000 which, of course,
they would have been delighted with.”

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