Stripper Wife Says Ponzi Schemer Isn't Doing Well

Diane Passage, the former stripper and still pole dancing wife of Ponzi-scheming accountant to the stars Kenneth Starr, tells Page Six that her husband's "health is not great at all." Starr is behind bars, because no one can/wants to bail him out: Apparently only one of his two brothers would agree to put up his house as a collateral for bond, while Passage claims, "My bank accounts have been frozen, so it is difficult. I'm talking with pay-per-view TV about a pole-dancing competition. I ran one last year and it will soon be screened on a Romanian sports network." She adds that private investigators working for Wesley Snipes—one of Starr's past clients—have been stalking her to gather info for Snipes to fight tax evasion charges.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 2, 2010 11:09 AM

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Truthmaker

Wesley Snipes has every right to investigate her, and her finances. Her husband has pleaded guilty to fraud charges, admitting cheating wealthy and elderly clients out of tens of millions of dollars, including Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, Martin Scorsese, and Uma Thurman. His "work", if you call it that, led to Wesley Snipes being convicted of Tax Fraud. If she benefited from her husbands crimes in any way, then those benefits can be called into question in a court of law. Wesley Snipes is exercising his right to defend himself, by gathering information, and evidence, concerning a tax trial, nothing more, nothing less.

If Kenneth Star was innocent, and really wanted to be in his children's lives, then he would have fought the charges like a maniac, kicking and screaming all the way.

But he pleaded guilty....that explains enough right there.

Willie Nillie

I would lick all o' dat

John L

The people he ripped off aren't doing to well either.

And the wife and kids he ran out on when he found out she had cancer aren't doing too well either.

Smiley Jones

His children are probably devastated that their father is no longer with them. His previous wife was diagnosed with MS at the age of 17 says an article. So the man is not a crook for that. He has shown a bad judgement of character. But no one is thinking about the fact he probably has a family who is losing this man in there lives. I don't remember growing up without my father. At the age of 15 or 17 I actually was very close with my father.