| No clowning: In 2009, the unauthorized biography Guy Laliberté: The Fabulous Story of the Creator of Cirque du Soleil was published, containing details of sex and drug use during Cirque du Soleil's rise to fame. Laliberté called the book "a piece of crap" and its author, Ian Halperin, "a crook," prompting Halperin to sue for libel. This year, Halperin quietly apologized to Laliberté for any harm the book caused, with an agreement reached between lawyers, and Laliberté accepted the apology. On a lighter note, in 2009 Laliberté paid $35 million to spend two weeks in space. |
