This decision was sweet music to Paul Simon.
The rock Hall of Famer dodged paying a $17,174.49 tab — plus interest and lawyer’s fees — tied to a $60 million Ponzi scheme where he was victimized by one-trick phony Kenneth I. Starr.
The Manhattan federal bankruptcy court filing came from the trustee responsible for paying off Starr’s creditors by collecting any of the scammer’s remaining assets.
Simon was among Starr’s many A-list marks, a group that included Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman, Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Martin Scorsese.
Thurman lost a reported $1 million.
The singer-songwriter was named in legal papers filed in Nov. 2014 as owing Starr for legitimate work done by the money manager — who ripped Simon off for an unspecified amount.
Court papers indicated the effort to collect from the 12-time Grammy Award winner was dropped just three weeks later.
Starr pleaded guilty in September 2010 to masterminding the multimillion dollar ripoff. He’s serving a seven-and-a-half-year federal prison term in Otisville, N.Y., for duping his investors between 2008-2010.
He was also ordered to pay more than $29 million in restitution in the headline-making case.
In addition to his well-known clients, Starr admitted bilking nine elderly investors out of their money — including a 100-year-old woman.
Starr was later disbarred after confessing that he used his celebrity clients’ cash to fuel a high-flying lifestyle — including diamond chandelier earrings and bracelets for his fourth and so far final wife, a tattooed former stripper.
He owned a $7.5 million, five-bedroom Upper East Side condo with a 32-foot indoor lap pool and a 1,500-square-foot garden.
Prosecutors charged that Starr, much in the fashion of investment guru Bernard Madoff, lured his well-known clients with promises of “sure deals” and a big return on their investments.
He instead put their cash into risky operations, including some run by his much younger — by 32 years — bride.
Starr faced a 12-year jail term after admitting to investment adviser fraud and other charges.