“Initially, she just served drinks and we gave her numbers to call the guys.” “Molly had nothing to do with anything,” Curtis said. Tamara BeckwithĬurtis claims Bloom was not the mastermind she purported to be and that she was primarily there to deflect attention so that he and Maguire could win millions without spooking their pals. Molly Bloom wrote a book about her time hosting the poker game, inspiring the movie “Molly’s Game” - but Curtis said she was just the face of the operation. If the story sounds familiar, that’s because it inspired the 2018 movie “Molly’s Game,” starring Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom, the former Olympic-class skier who was the hostess of the operation - and who later would be arrested on gambling-related charges tied to a game she ran in New York City.īut, Curtis writes, neither the movie nor Bloom’s own memoir tells the true story of the LA game. The stakes were so high, Curtis told The Post, that “winning $20,000 felt like losing.”

On Tuesday nights from 2005 until 2009, bold-faced names - including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and “The Notebook” director Nick Cassavetes - flocked to The Viper Room or Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel to play. Until everything crashed down hard, they pulled it off, putting together the biggest game that Hollywood has ever seen.

The alleged goal, according to Curtis’s new book, “ Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist” (Skyhorse Publishing, co-authored with Dylan Howard): for Maguire and Curtis to win as much as possible from their hand-picked suckers. Tobey Maguire wanted to take down Hollywood.īack in 2005, the “Spider-Man” star collaborated with a card cheat-turned-TV producer named Houston Curtis to create a regular poker game for themselves and their rich pals where as much as a few million bucks could be in play on any night. Marvel superheroes would be totally screwed by old age: Study

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