According to the New York Daily News, Passage held a series of jobs which entailed little responsibility and huge salaries not commensurate with the work she was doing. The paper reports,

The bodacious brunette held a series of “no-show” jobs at sham corporations and burned through money stolen from his wealthy clients, sources and court papers say….Court papers say Starr got her the $150,000-a-year gig and that she “had no real responsibility and showed up once per month.”

According to Gawker,

Passage is the founder of a group called Pole Superstar (warning, NSFW), which puts on a pole dancing competition. Its mission is to “recognize the increasing interest in pole dancing as a sport, fitness activity and art form, worldwide.”

But she’s a stripper with a heart of gold apparently: the group Passage founded, Pole Superstar, says that it benefits an organization called S.P.I.N. (Single Parents In Need). However, although the organization accepts donations on its Web site, it has not been incorporated as a nonprofit charity and is now under investigation, according to the New York Post. Gawker also notes that the uber-busy Passage is working on a movie adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s book Desert Rose, about which she blogged on Pumps Mag,

Coincidentally, I have the movie rights to Larry McMurtry’s novel The Desert Rose, which is a story about a Las Vegas showgirl. I obtained the rights about five years ago and started working on the movie with Martin Bregman, whose films include Scarface, Serpico, The Bone Collector, and more. This movie has been a slow process since I manage multiple projects, but I feel like my involvement with the Pole Superstar Las Vegas show will help me along with the movie since there are similar elements. The Desert Rose is about an aging Las Vegas showgirl whose underage daughter is being groomed to take the mother’s place as the star of the show. The story merges female competitiveness with mother/daughter tension – something that women can relate to, in the enticing Vegas setting that men can relate to.

Who couldn’t relate to that?

Anyway, it’s not really clear how aware Passage was of her husband’s financial misappropriations… The criminal complaint details some of the trinkets Passage received from her hubby over the years, one would assume purchased with the money stolen from clients:

Also mentioned in the criminal complaint, the $7.5 million condo they bought:

According to Reuters,

The criminal complaint also charged prominent New York City politician Andrew Stein, a Democrat, with making false statements to the Internal Revenue Service and failing to disclose the existence of an entity called Wind River LLC.

Starr stated that funds going to Wind River were loans to Stein, a former president of the New York City Council, for his work as a “placement agent” for investments, according to an affidavit filed in court by an IRS agent.

According to the criminal complaint, Starr misappropriated funds, ripped off his clients and used the cash to buy himself a posh new house.

NBC News reports,

Ken Starr, who boasts a client list that includes Annie Leibovitz, Uma Thurman, Martin Scorsese, Wesley Snipes, Henry Kissinger, Caroline Kennedy and Robert Ziff among others, was arrested by IRS agents this morning and is expected to face investment fraud, tax fraud and other related charges, officials said. He is expected to appear in court later today.