Bradley Ruderman Tobey Maguire
June 30th, 2011
Tobey Maguire has just filed legal papers, claiming he did NOT play in illegal high-stakes poker games.
As you’ll recall, last week the ‘Spider-Man’ star was named in a lawsuit against a hedge fund manager named Bradley Ruderman, who’s currently in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $50 million in a Ponzi scheme.
Basically, creditors of Ruderman’s now bankrupt company sought to have Maguire pony up the more than $300,000 he took in winnings from the hedge funder in what were termed “illegal” poker games.
But in Maguire’s court filing today, he says the games were not “illegal” — and he paid taxes on his winnings.
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