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.

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.

Real estate mogul, Robert "Bob" Safai has reached a settlement in relation to the Hollywood poker scandal, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The court appointed trustee for the Hollywood poker celebrity lawsuits, Howard Ehrenberg, says, "We alleged (that Mr. Safai owed) $845,900 and settled for $360,000."

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The court-appointed trustee for the Hollywood celebrity poker lawsuits is firing back at Tobey Maguire for claiming that the poker games were legal, and that he shouldn't be forced to give up his winnings.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Maguire, 35, won more than $300,000 from a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager who allegedly embezzled investor funds and orchestrated a Ponzi scheme in a desperate bid to pay off his monster debt to the star and others, and Howard Ehrenberg is attempting to recoup that money for the investors.

Ehrenberg tells RadarOnline.com exclusively: "What is interesting is that Mr. Maguire is now hedging his bets as to whether the games were operated legally. He now seems to say that if the games were not legal, he did not know it."

The court-appointed trustee for the Hollywood celebrity poker lawsuits tried to privately settle with Tobey Maguire, and other parties, before filing, to avoid negative publicity, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

However, all attempts to do so were unsuccessful and trustee Howard Ehrenberg was forced to file against the Spider-man star and other Hollywood bigwigs in an attempt to reimburse money that investors lost in an elaborate Ponzi scheme hatched by hedge fund manager Brad Ruderman.

“The investors that I represent lost about $50 million dollars,” Ehrenberg told RadarOnline.com exclusively. “I contacted representatives for Mr. Maguire before I filed the lawsuit against him as a courtesy, because I didn't want to cause him embarrassment. My attempts to collect money from Mr. Maguire were unsuccessful and went unnoticed, and I was forced to file the lawsuit against him.