Bradley Ruderman Tobey Maguire

November 28th, 2011

Tobey Maguire just lost $80,000 by playing poker.

The actor has settled his part in a lawsuit brought against participants in a high-stakes game organized by now-jailed Ponzi schemer Bradley Ruderman, a hedge fund manager who lost millions of his ill-gotten money in celebrity-studded, secret poker get-togethers.

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.

bernie madoff Bradley Ruderman Tobey Maguire

June 22nd, 2011

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.