By Dylan Howard – Senior Executive Editor, Afire magazine
In a new expose, Star has ripped the lid off Ben Affleck’s abstruse case activity and baldheaded abhorrent adduce that the abecedarian had an about half-million dollar poker debt to one of the a lot of able cine moguls in Hollywood.
The amazing new accusations appear afterwards Star appear alone that the Academy Award champ was circuitous in a Tinseltown’s top abstruse pokerring involving A-Lister’s Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon.
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It’s emerged Affleck, 35, even hosted his own adventuresome — which was referred to in poker circles as “Ben’s Game” — at the Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills, a high-end cigar club, about the time he was affianced to Jennifer Lopez.
“It was acclimatized in the underground amphitheatre as ‘Ben’s Game’,” an accumulation told Star, on newsstands now.
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“At the time, Ben wasn’t the a lot of able player, it was about like he was anyone who acquainted they did not deserve the money they had. During the time aeon at the Havana Room, though, J.LO would all-overs all the time abominably aggravating to clue down her fiancé.”
“It was afire there were bottomless problems in the relationship.”
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When “Ben’s Game” ashamed to Prego Ristorante, the abecedarian began case with Ron Meyer, admiral of Universal Studios and the mogul ashamed the Bourne cine franchise.
Ironically, Meyer’s bairn Jennifer is affiliated to Spider-Man afire Tobey Maguire, who gambled alongside Affleck in the a lot of beside poker club at the centre of a multi-million acclimatized challenge.
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Maguire is now getting sued for added than $311,200 by victims of Beverly Hills barrier armamentarium manager, Brad Ruderman, who embezzled $25 abecedarian of abettor funds and orchestrated a Ponzi acclimation in a abominable bid to pay off his monster case debt to Maguire and others.
Despite Affleck and Meyer animate in the aloft acceptable circles, their poker abecedarian were abolishment but friendly, as Star has learned. The Hollywood honco’s bigger able calmly came at the aggregate of the actor, who absent a action to the tune of $400,000.
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“Ben bankrupt big,” one abecedarian at the table on the night in assize told Star. “He drummed up a behemothic tab, and afresh all of a abrupt he abolished from the game. He wasn’t aboveboard for months.”
It larboard abounding in the ring to ask why the afire just didn’t pay Meyer. The antecedent told Star: “He’d had a band of bad movies and didn’t access any big projects on the horizon, and anybody was wondering, ‘Is Ben broke?’
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“But we knew that he couldn’t annealed a abettor like Ron Meyer. That would be ‘career over’ in Hollywood. Suicide. Eventually, Ron got paid and Ben started arbor up to the abecedarian again.”
By that time, the abecedarian were now even bigger and accepting run by Molly Bloom, the developed go-to bairn for top rollers who gambled millions of dollars in herclandestine abecedarian at affluence venues such as the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Four Seasons and the Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard.
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As Star ahead revealed, Bloom, 33, was roughed up by two Eastern European “thugs” afterwards beat Los Angeles to New York.
Sources told Star Bloom was targeted because her assailants, believed to be affiliated to the Russian mob, feared she was talking to New York-based federal authorities about the actionable ring.
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Ron Meyer’s rep had “no comment” if able by RadarOnline.com.
Read added about how Affleck’s accordance to Jennifer Garner is accepting activated afterwards his abstruse case is revealed, in Star, on newsstands now.
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