Dude people buy jets and Teslas as a business expense. super common. Dan bilzerian's ex beverly hills villa is owned by Wish as a business expense and the ceo parties there. cmon.

You can twist the villa however you want. It can be an investment through an SPV and you pay rent. To be clear, arguing (and using) something as a business expense or an investment is not fraudulent.

I don’t know who in their right mind would take out a million in salary and pay 50% of it and then buy a villa with $500k, rather than directly investing in a villa either for the appreciation itself or to use for business events, branding, whatever

And this is just one very simple way. there are countless permutations. You can go as complex as you want. You can mix and match around with credit and exotic laws and exotic countries and exotic legal structures all day long.

Sorry if reality upsets you: the world is setup by lawyers( and/politicians) for shareholders, and that's because they're the richest and capital=power.