All the evidence points to a big financial loss for CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, who has listed his Los Angeles mansion at almost $1.75 million less than what he and his wife paid for it in 2008.

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From wild-partying Hollywood stars to sleazy politicians, the celebrity world is never short of scandalous activity and 2011 didn't disappoint. RadarOnline.com has gathered the most outrageous stories of the year that shocked, amazed, and sometimes downright confused us.

Politics and sex are the perfect ingredients for a saucy scandal, especially when the politician is the former governor of California and a huge Hollywood star. Arnold Schwarzenegger became one of the biggest stories of the year in every way when a joint investigation by RadarOnline.com and Star magazine revealed in May that he had fathered a love child, who is now 14, with his housekeeper, Mildred Baena.

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Tobey Maguire has agreed to pay $80,000 to be excluded from an ongoing lawsuit tied to his poker winnings at a high-stakes game organized by convicted Ponzi schemer Brad Ruderman, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The Spider-Man star's payout was revealed in new bankruptcy court documents filed Wednesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Maguire personally signed the settlement papers himself November 18, according to court docs. He said he did not receive anymore than the $80,000 from Ruderman that he's paying back, and had no knowledge of the ongoing con or where Ruderman's poker bankroll came from.

Kim Kardashian, dressed as Poison Ivy, hosts Midori Green Halloween Party in NYC just prior to filing for divorce from husband Kris Humphries.

Following the filing, Kim receives a warm welcome in Sydney.

Kim, Khloe and Lamar Odom were snapped leaving Australia Friday.

American Idol judge Steven Tyler is battered and bruised arriving at Sao Paulo International Airport following a fall in the shower.

Tori Spelling is rushed to hospital and wheeled in by her husband, Dean McDermott.

A braless Brooke Mueller wears a see-through top on the red carpet with her sons Max and Bob at the 18th Annual Dream Halloween Event in Los Angeles.

A-list hunks Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio share a laugh off camera on the set of The Great Gatsby.

Chaz Bono and David Arquette chat outside Kate Hudson's Halloween party in Hollywood, where David was dressed as Elvis.

Jessica Simpson holds her growing belly and her fiancé Eric Johnson's hand as they walk from a Beverly Hills office building to their car.

Courtney Stodden dresses as a schoolgirl for Halloween while her husband Doug Hutchison dresses as his 17-year-old wife.

Wearing polka dots, Lindsay Lohan attends a court hearing in Los Angeles.

They've been best buddies since childhood and now Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio are making their first major movie together, a remake of The Great Gatsby.

The pair looked dapper dressed in period suits and topped off with a flat cap for Maguire, who plays Nick Carraway, and a straw hat for DiCaprio, who has taken on the role of mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.

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Sam Waterston and Robert Redford played the same roles in the 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic 1925 novel.

Leo and Tobey's version is being directed by Baz Lehrmann in Sydney, Australia.

The duo - who met while auditioning for the sitcom Parenthood in 1990 - haven't starred together in a movie since 1995 when they shot the low-budget film Don's Plums.

They later sued the director, claiming the movie was actually an 'acting exercise' that should never have been released.

While they have remained firm friends, their lives have taken very different turns, with Maguire now a husband and father and DiCaprio still playing the field, most recently with Gossip Girl Blake Lively.

Cliff Robertson, who won an Oscar for Charly in 1968 and became known to a new generation of movie fans as Ben Parker, Tobey Maguire's wise and kindly uncle in all three Spider-Man movies, died on Saturday.

Robertson starred in literally hundreds of movies and TV shows -- he was also an Emmy winner.

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He played a real-life hero, Lt. John F. Kennedy, in the movie PT 109, and he became was a real-life hero when he saved a woman in a restaurant by jumping to her aid and performing the Heimlich maneuver.

Twice married and divorced, Robertson died the day after his 88th birthday at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

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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.

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."