The Notebook director, Nick Cassavetes, wants a lawsuit against him in connection with the Hollywood poker scandal thrown out, and is gearing up for a legal fight, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Cassavetes is being sued for almost $74k in earnings by a bankruptcy trustee who is trying to recoup losses that were suffered by former clients that invested with Brad Ruderman, who was convicted in a Ponzi scheme.

Four Major League Baseball investigators entered a Baltimore hotel Friday to meet with New York Yankees' star Alex Rodriguez over Star magazine's
exclusive report that he played in Tinsel town's top secret poker ring.

A-Rod is facing anything from a reprimand to a suspension from Major League Baseball, which previously warned him to stay out of illegal poker clubs.

ESPN NewYork.com reports Rodriguez' attorney, Jay Reisinger, will be present at the meeting.

Earlier this month, a blockbuster Star investigation uncovered the sordid charges being made by eyewitnesses who played in games with A-Rod, in the A-List ring.

A-Rod gambled on at least two occasions, in games organized by stunning brunette Molly Bloom, who coordinated the sophisticated poker operation, the insiders revealed.

SpiderMan star Tobey Maguire was also at the game, Star has learned. One game was hosted at investor and record label owner Cody Leibel's $16.5 million Beverly Hills mansion, where cocaine was openly used.

A Florida gathering also ended in controversy when one "dubious" card shark lost tens of thousands of dollars and called in several thugs in a bid to intimidate rival players and avoid paying his debt.

The Yankees open a five-game series with the Orioles Friday night.

The FBI’s dossier on Tinsel town’s top secret poker ring identifies Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire as the shadowy club’s “best player” and includes allegations some players often indulged in illicit drug use.

The sensational files on the sophisticated and organized illegal poker group were started after Los Angeles-based agents spoke to crooked hedge fund manager Bradley L. Ruderman.

As part of his confession to a $44 million Ponzi scheme, Star has learned Ruderman ratted out his one-time opponents and spilled the details of their clandestine games, which were held at the homes of players or in five-star hotels in Beverly Hills, such as The Four Seasons.

Spider-Man star and underground card shark Tobey Maguire attended a top secret high-stakes poker game, alongside New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, Star is reporting exclusively via RadarOnline.com.

Maguire, 36, could be asked to provide evidence to Major League Baseball, which has ordered A-Rod to appear before Commissioner Bud Selig to explain his participation in the poker games.

"It's a possibility, although there is little if any power to compel Maguire to provide testimony to the MLB," a baseball insider told Star. "It's a question the Commissioner's investigators could ask, though."

New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez played in an underground, illegal poker game where cocaine was openly used, and even organized his own high-stakes game, which ended with thugs threatening players.

A blockbuster Star investigation, published on RadarOnline.com, has uncovered the sordid charges being made by eyewitnesses who played in games with A-Rod, in the top-secret Texas Hold ’Em circuit.

Paris Hilton's ex-boyfriend, and sex tape partner, Rick Salomon, has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that was filed in connection with the Hollywood poker scandal, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Howard Ehrenberg, the court appointed trustee, filed lawsuits against a myriad of Hollywood A-listers, including Tobey Maguire and Nick Cassavetes for winnings they made from high stakes poker games that were organized by convicted fraudster Brad Ruderman.

Ehrenberg is attempting to recoup money for a jilted group of investors that lost money in a hedge fund that was an elaborate Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Ruderman.

Molly Bloom, the woman at the center of the Hollywood poker scandal, has formally responded to a lawsuit filed against her and denies organizing the high stakes poker games that were held at luxury hotels, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The lawsuit was filed against Bloom in the United States Bankruptcy Court for $473,2000 by Howard Ehrenberg, a court appointed trustee who is attempting to recoup money from jilted investors in a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Brad Ruderman.

In a new expose, Star has ripped the lid off Ben Affleck's secret gambling life and uncovered shocking charges that the actor had an almost half-million dollar poker debt to one of the most powerful movie moguls in Hollywood.

The sensational new accusations come after Star reported exclusively that the Academy Award winner was involved in a Tinseltown's top secret poker
ring involving A-Lister's Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon.

It's emerged Affleck, 35, even hosted his own game -- which was referred to in poker circles as "Ben's Game" -- at the Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills, a high-end cigar club, around the time he was engaged to Jennifer Lopez.