Tobey Maguire Caught in Ponzi Schemer’s Web

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11:37 am, June 22nd, 2011

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Tobey Maguire is being targeted for hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly won from a now-jailed Ponzi schemer in illegal high-stakes poker games.

It’s not quite as confusing as it sounds.

A hedge fund manager named Bradley Ruderman is in prison for defrauding investors (a la Bernie Madoff), and his now-bankrupt company has to pay the victims.

According to legal documents, Ruderman used to play in a top-dollar poker game with Maguire and other deep-pocketed gamblers.

Ruderman admits to losing $5.2 million in these games, and claims Maguire personally beat him for more than $300,000 between 2007 and 2008.

Because unlicensed gambling is illegal, the bankruptcy trustees are now attempting to seize Maguire’s “earnings” to help pay Ruderman’s stiffed clients.

Gossip Cop wonders if Maguire’s Spidey sense tingled when staring across the poker table at the villainous Ruderman.

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