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Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire is among more than a dozen high-profile Hollywood celebrities being sued in connection with a mega-millions illegal gambling ring that ran high-stakes underground poker games, Star magazine is reporting exclusively.

Maguire, 35, won more than $300,000 from a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager who embezzled investor funds and orchestrated a Ponzi scheme in a desperate bid to pay off his monster debt to the star and others, it's alleged.

An FBI investigation into Brad Ruderman, the CEO of Ruderman Capital Partners, uncovered how he lost $25 million of investor money in clandestine poker games held on a twice weekly basis in suites at the luxury Beverly Hills hotel, Four Seasons, and the Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusive...eck-matt-damon

Interesting if true

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"Others who were part of the secret society and are facing hefty lawsuits include billionaire businessman Alex Gores, The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, Welcome Back, Kotter star Gabe Kaplan, Paris Hilton's infamous sex tape partner, Rick Salomon, record label owner Cody Leibel and Las Vegas nightlife entrepreneur and real-estate developer Andrew Sasson, among others.

Now, as Ruderman sits in a Texas jail until 2018, convicted on two counts of wire fraud and two counts of investment adviser fraud, lawyers for the clients whose funds he embezzled are filing a series of civil suits against those who won big in the illegal poker dens, in the hope of recouping some of their lost savings.

DiCaprio, Affleck and Damon are not being sued."



"One of the participants, Dan Bilzerian, told Star that he regularly played against DiCaprio, Affleck and Maguire.

Damon, according to Bilzerian, played irregularly."

lol america

How do they know how much he lost to specific players? What about amounts he won from specific players?

Unless these celebs knew he was a fraudster or had reason to believe he was a fraudster and was stealing from his clients, I don't see how they are on the hook for anything.

I note that Matt Damon was invited to those games, but not Johnny Chan -- that Damon is such a wuss not letting "John" get even from his earlier loss in Rounders.

Doesn't KGB have the police on the payroll?

Dan Bilzerian attention whoring as usual.

Sounds like the juiciest game on the planet.

Nice to see News, Views and Gossip all in one thread.

teh real world rounders 2?

lol trying to prove in a civil court without HH and where your client has been convicted of wire and investment fraud.

That rich whale lost $25 million ? Wow that must have been some awesome homegames. Surprising also to hear that the guy that did so much for poker (Matt Damon) is really bad according to the others and always lost. You'd think he could at least learn the game in those 15 years.

whoa buddy!

Sorry but it's not Toby McGuire's problem that the scumbag who ripped you off lost all the money in a poker game.

"Maguire won as much as $1 million a month over a period of three years, one source told Star, which is on newsstands Wednesday."

"That means he could have made up to $30 to $40 million from these games," the whistle-blowing card shark predicted.

That woulb be sick if true

i love this and i love poker

this is sick

spidey-sense.

Tough shyt, imo.

The only way anyone is going to get in real trouble is if during the civil investigation, it comes up that someone was raking/getting paid to run this game.

Toby will lose a few buyins in legal fees imo.

lol

Isn't The Star one of those trash magazines you see in line at the grocery store? Like the National Enquirer? I wouldn't put too much weight in it

Haha this story is hilarious, Tobey Maguire is obv a boss.

The National Enquirer broke the John Edwards story and many others. These are mostly legit stories in these mags.

When the Weekly World News was in business, that was all satire.

that is all

living the life in hollywooooooooooooooood

It's in bankruptcy docs, ones you won't find at a grocery store.