Tobey Maguire has settled a lawsuit that sought repayment of hundreds of thousands of dollars the `` Spider-Man '' actor allegedly won in secret high-stakes poker games at Beverly Hills luxury hotels , according to court documents filed last week . A series of federal suits , including the one against Maguire , said the poker winnings were paid with funds stolen from investors who had been lured into an illegal Ponzi scheme . Maguire agreed to pay $ 80,000 to the estate of Bradley Ruderman , 48 , who is serving a 10-year federal prison sentence for tax , wire and investor advice fraud convictions . The judge will hold a hearing on December 21 to decide if he will approve the Maguire settlement . The lawsuit against Maguire , filed in March , alleged that the actor won $ 311,000 from Ruderman in 2007 and 2008 . Actors Nick Cassavetes and Gabe Kaplan , along with professional poker player Dan Bilzerian , two nightclub owners and a Los Angeles lawyer , are among at least 10 other people sued by a bankruptcy trustee . Most of the celebrity defendants have not publicly commented on the case , but Kaplan , the star of the 1970s TV sitcom `` Welcome Back , Kotter , '' reached his own settlement in August . Kaplan , whose poker skills are well known because of his frequent television appearances at professional gambling events , agreed to repay $ 27,000 of the $ 62,000 the trustee contended he was paid in gambling proceeds from the Ponzi scheme funds . Lawsuits : Celebrities play high-stakes poker in hotels . None of the defendants in the civil lawsuits faced criminal charges , but the bankruptcy trustee for Ruderman 's estate said they had to return at least $ 1.5 million of their alleged gambling winnings . What each defendant allegedly has in common is that they beat Bradley Ruderman in `` regularly held , high stakes and clandestine 'Texas Hold 'em ' poker games '' at hotels and homes in the Beverly Hills area . Ruderman induced at least 22 victim-investors to give him approximately $ 44.3 million that was never invested , one lawsuit said . Ruderman , a Beverly Hills resident , used the money , in part , to cover his gambling losses , it said . The suits say that the poker games were `` exclusive events , by invitation only , and that there was a regular roster of players consisting of wealthy celebrities , entrepreneurs , attorneys and businessmen . '' The games were also unlicensed and illegal , so `` the player had no legally enforceable contractual right to receive payment , '' the suits said . Bilzerian , a top professional poker player known as the `` Blitz , '' beat Ruderman for $ 100,000 , which the bankruptcy trustee wants back , court documents said . There is no criminal investigation of the alleged gambling , a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney said in June when the lawsuits were made public . `` Gambling is illegal , but it 's a misdemeanor , '' Sandi Gibbons said . The court documents pull back the curtain a bit on what is mostly done behind closed doors by the wealthy and well-known in Beverly Hills . The poker games were `` held at luxury locations such as The Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles , California , the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills , California , the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills , California , and occasionally at private residences of the poker players , '' the lawsuits said . None of the hotels would comment on the allegations when contacted by CNN . The games were `` arranged by Molly Bloom , initially ( as ) an assistant to one of the poker players and then as a stand-alone business , '' court documents said . Bloom arranged `` food , alcohol and massages '' for the players and `` arranged for the settlement of gambling winnings and losses between and among the players . '' Bloom , who is being sued by the trustee for $ 473,200 , denied in a response to the court that she was involved in organized illegal gambling . She acknowledged , however , that she `` performed services and received value from Ruderman in good faith in exchange for her services . '' Bloom passed `` a large percentage '' of the money sent to her by Ruderman to `` third parties , '' her response said . Ruderman 's Ponzi scheme spanned seven years , starting in 2002 and ending with an FBI investigation in 2009 , according to court papers . `` To obtain investments in the fund , Ruderman misrepresented to potential investors that Lowell Milken ( chairman of the Milken Family Foundation and younger brother of Michael Milken ) and Larry Ellison ( the CEO of Oracle Corporation ) were investors in the funds , '' federal court documents said . Ruderman provided false accounting statements claiming his hedge fund investments earned between 15 % and 61 % each year and were valued at more than $ 800 million , the documents said . `` In reality , the funds lost millions of dollars over the years and had a net liquidation value of less than $ 650,000 at the end of 2008 , '' documents said . It was a year after the funds collapse in April 2009 , and months after Ruderman pleaded guilty in January 2010 , that the bankruptcy trustee discovered the large transfers of cash from the fund to pay his gambling debts , the lawsuits said .
The `` Spider-Man '' actor agrees to pay $ 311,000 to settle the $ 80,000 claim . California 's poker winnings were paid with Larry Ellison scheme proceeds , the suit says . at least 22 other people have been sued by a bankruptcy trustee . None of the defendants in the civil lawsuits faced criminal charges .