D4vd was making lots of money by the time he was finishing up high school … because he was just 17 years old when he signed a record deal that started to line his pockets with a multi-million dollar advance.

TMZ did some digging and found D4vd’s minors contract he signed with Darkroom and Interscope Records … which was filed in court.

D4vd put pen to paper in September 2022, when he was 17, and the deal called for him to be paid at least a $3 million advance for an EP, an album, and various other deliverables.

So it looks like D4vd was flush with cash a couple years ago when he was still a minor … and that would seem to line up with him driving a Tesla and living in a $20,000 a month rental home in the Hollywood Hills.

Of course, the Tesla is where police say they found the body of missing teenage girl Celeste Rivas … whose chopped up and decomposing remains were discovered earlier this month, a day before her 15th birthday.

D4vd’s car was abandoned and towed from an area near a swanky Hollywood Hills residence where he was living with his manager … and cops ended up searching the place and looking for evidence related to her death.

Celeste’s death investigation is still ongoing — we’ve learned it appears she ran away from home a couple times in 2024 and was once found in Hollywood and returned to her family in Lake Elsinore — and no news yet on a cause of death, and cops haven’t yet said if they have a suspect.