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Actor Steven Seagal a deadbeat: former business partner

On TV, he’s “Steven Seagal Lawman” — but to his mobbed-up, ex-business partner, he’s “Steven Seagal Deadbeat.”

Film producer Julius Nasso filed suit today against the former action-movie star over $165,000 Nasso claims he’s owed under a 2007 settlement agreement.

Nasso — who previously served a year in the slammer for helping mobsters shake down the actor — says Seagal breached a deal to shut down their production companies by failing to make a series of payments due in 2008 and last year.

The deal also required “a letter from Mr. Seagal requesting a pardon for Mr. Nasso,” the Manhattan federal court suit says.

Nasso alleges that he made “good faith attempts” to collect over the past two months, but that Segal and his Hollywood-based Steamroller Productions company have yet to pay up.

He cites a December email from former Seagal lawyer Abbe Lowell saying he no longer represents the B-lister, which the suit calls “not surprising” as three “previous firms … are in litigation with Mr. Seagal” over unpaid bills.

Nasso says his claim “specifically does not include those payments required to be made in the future which, if not paid in a timely manner, will be the subject of future lawsuits.”

A Seagal representative couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.