SPIDERMAN SUED FOR RUNNING MILLION DOLLAR POKER RING

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MACGUIRE, DICAPRIO, AFFLECK, DAMON.... ETC

i mean lets be real though, if we were all making $25M per film i think we'd all play high stakes gambling games.. even on shit like madden.

SORRY FOR ALL THE RANDOM HEADLINES IN THE STORY LOL

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

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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.

Tinsel town A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon also played in the no-limit Texas Hold 'em games which had a buy-in of $100,000, multiple members of the ring told Star. DiCaprio, Affleck and Damon are not being sued.

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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.

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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.

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The games were "exclusive events, by invitation only, and that there was a regular roster of players consisting of wealthy celebrities, entrepreneurs, attorneys and businessmen," according to the lawsuit filed against Maguire in the United States Bankruptcy Court, in Los Angeles.

Ruderman lost $311,300 to Maguire, including one losing hand of $110,000, on July 30, 2007, it's claimed.

The Ponzi mastermind used clients' money to "pay for gambling losses at clandestine, high stakes poker games that were operated without any licenses or permits," the suit said.

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"As part of the scheme, funds invested in (Ruderman) were transferred to persons such as Defendant (Maguire), who received the funds on account of Ruderman's gambling losses and on account of Defendant's gambling winnings."

In their attempt to win back Ruderman's losses, the trustee has claimed Maguire is "not entitled to receive the transfers from the Debtor, which transfers were compromised of improperly-diverted investor funds."

In a deposition of the alleged ringleader of the operation, which took in tens of millions of dollars beginning in 2006 through 2009, Maguire is described as a "very, very frequent player," in the games, which ended in 2009.

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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.

Under California law, it's illegal to play for money at underground poker clubs, although it is a crime rarely prosecuted. None of the participants are under criminal investigation, Star has been told.

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Indeed, it's understood Maguire has hired an attorney to strenuously defend the allegations against him, who will argue the games were not illegal.

In a world exclusive investigation, Star detailed how the A-list aces used secret passwords to play in the covert games that were so intense, the door was manned by armed guards in bulletproof vests.

Inside the rooms, tucked away in different locations around Los Angeles, high-rollers laid down wads of cash on felt-top tables presided over by professional dealers who were part of the operation's hierarchy.

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

Damon, according to Bilzerian, played irregularly.

While Affleck, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay Good Will Hunting, impressed players with his poker skills, both DiCaprio and Damon did not fair as well, Star reported.

"Matt never won,’’ another whistle-blowing player told the magazine.

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"In truth, Leo is a tight ass. When he lost $50,000 the look in his eyes was obvious he was crazy."

Read more of Star's world exclusive investigation into the intriguing poker ring and how some of the biggest names in Hollywood gambled their fortune in the magazine, on newsstands now.
 
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yup after seeing him go Ape Shit in the movie Brothers. you dont wanna owe that man. lol
LOL oh yeah
plus he was kinda buffed up after Spiderman 3.
he probably gets pretty intense while gambling.
$300,000 would get anyones heart racing.. FUCK YOU PAY ME

dude was so shook he created a ponzi scheme to try to pay it back
hahhah
 
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ol boy didnt wanna see toby in that black spider man suit.
LOL PROPS


Apparently, Maguire was a really frequent player, winning upwards of a $1 million a month… for a long time! One of the whistleblowers even said that Maguire probably earned somewhere in the ballpark of $30-$40 million dollars in all from these poker games.
 

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yup after seeing him go Ape Shit in the movie Brothers. you dont wanna owe that man. lol
Yeah, all 5 feet of him. . .

Grow a pair.

This whistle blower is a fucking punk, though. Couldn't leave these rich fucks well enough alone. Let them play their games and blow that money.
 
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Yeah, all 5 feet of him. . .

Grow a pair.

This whistle blower is a fucking punk, though. Couldn't leave these rich fucks well enough alone. Let them play their games and blow that money.
well the whistleblower in this case was a player also.
he owed Spiderman 300 Large.
so to try to pay it back he created a ponzi scheme, fucking investors out of money and the Feds kinda caught on...
so he spilled the beans on the whole operation.

this story is gonna be around for a while. i think Spidey is in trouble.