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Martin Scorsese sued for $600k debt to jailed money manager Kenneth Starr

Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese was sued this morning for nearly $600,000 in unpaid fees to jailed money manager Kenneth Starr.

The suit was filed by the court-appointed receiver who was put in charge of Starr’s business after he was busted for allegedly running a $59 million Ponzi scheme on his celebrity clients.

The Manhattan state Supreme Court filing says Scorsese agreed to pay Starr five percent of his income for “accounting, bookkeeping, tax and other personal management services.”

But the famed director of movie classics including “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull” director allegedly reneged on the deal after his account manager, Arnie Herrman, quit Starr’s firm in January and took Scorsese’s “lucrative personal management business with him to another firm.”

Herrman later told Starr that Scorsese would pay “only an amount equal to the ‘average’ of payments made…over the previous six years, or $144,300, to be paid over (a) two-year period,” the suit says.

The suit seeks fees Scorsese allegedly incurred between 2006 and 2010, during which time he earned nearly $12 million by releasing films including “The Departed,” for which he won his first Academy Award after seven nominations.

Court-appointed receiver Aurora Cassirer said the suit was the first of several that would seek to recoup cash owed Starr to pay back victims of his alleged fraud, who reportedly include actresses Uma Thurman and Lauren Bacall, and playwright Neil Simon.

Cassirer declined to identify any other potential targets, but said: “I can tell you they’ll be interesting.”

A Scorsese rep didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.