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from www.nypost.com – Jailed celebrity Ponzi-scheming money manager Ken Starr is being divorced by his ample-charmed, former Scores stripper wife, Diane Passage, Page Six has exclusively learned.
While Starr is serving a 7½-year federal prison sentence, Passage is seeking counsel from a divorce lawyer. Sources say the busty brunette — who quipped to Page Six in October that she was on the lookout for a new companion and, “Billionaire is the new millionaire” — plans to file for divorce from Starr next month.
When we asked if she was asking for a divorce, Passage — one of Starr’s most valued assets — told us last night in an e-mail, “It is true but I can’t comment any further.”
Diane Passage
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Diane Passage
Scheming accountant Starr was convicted in March of bilking $33 million from clients including Al Pacino, Uma Thurman, Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Martin Scorsese and Lauren Bacall, in part to keep Passage in diamonds and expensive furs.
Starr is behind bars in upstate Otisville, but Passage isn’t willing to wait until his release. A source tells Page Six, “She has tried to hang in as much as she can and be supportive. But she’s fed up.”
Another source told us Passage was struggling because her and Starr’s bank accounts remain frozen by authorities, and she’s failed to meet payments on their East 74th Street triplex, which boasts an indoor swimming pool and is dubbed “The Ponzi Palace.”
To ease her financial plight, she mulled a return to pole dancing and auditioned for a stripper reality show. Flora Edwards, Starr’s lawyer, and Passage’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, didn’t return calls.
Passage told us last October that Starr had been checking up on her daily from prison, and repeatedly asks if she’s dating anyone: “He plays 20 questions with me from, ‘What’s your favorite color?’ to, ‘How many men have you hooked up with?’ I always tell him, none of your business . . . But if I did hook up with another guy. I think it would be OK — he owes me, he’s in jail.”