A-list actor Tobey Maguire testified on Wednesday in the criminal tax trial of Tom Goldstein about the time he hired the embattled attorney to collect a multi-million-dollar poker debt from a “Texas Businessman.” That businessman was revealed to be billionaire banker Andy Beal, a longtime poker player whose heads-up escapades are well-documented.
Maguire, a witness for the prosecution, told jurors in Maryland he had hired Goldstein to recover a $7.8 million gambling debt — Maguire’s share of $15.6 million he won off Beal in a December 2019 poker match. Bloomberg Law reported that Beal was the billionaire in question.