Cirque Du Soleil Billionaire Guy Laliberté In Custody For Growing Cannabis

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Billionaire Guy Laliberté, the cofounder of Cirque du Soleil, is in custody on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti for growing cannabis

, where 52 people can share the island’s spa facilities and infinity pool for seven nights at a near-$1 million price tag., cofounded Cirque in 1984 and helped build the modern circus into a global brand. He had dropped out of college just six years prior to become a street performer.

In 2015, he sold the bulk of Cirque to private equity firm TPG Capital, walking away with $1.5 billion while retaining a 10% stake in the company. He has since funneled around $100 million of the proceeds into Lune Rouge Entertainment, whose most notable asset is an 81-foot-tall pyramid in Montreal, which houses. He’s also found ways to hearken back to his own entertainer roots, DJ’ing at the pyramid and, in 2016, a club in New York.

Laliberté purchased the island during a nine-digit real estate binge that followed the Cirque deal. He also bought a 270,000-square-foot complex of seven Montreal office buildings.

 

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Le Québec à Tahiti............. fume fume Ti-Guy

He should bought some property in California

He was growing it for personal use. This is total b.s. I could be wrong but this guy seems like as good a billionaire as the world can hope for. I’m on TeamLaliberté

I’d say we should do a Kick Starter to bail him out but I think he’s got the costs covered.

Growing how much pot?

Clearly Tahiti has solved all its burning problems and can now spend valuable resources to fight the growing problem of billionaires-growing-their-own-pot... facepalm

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Guy Laliberté, a longtime member of Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires, cofounded Cirque in 1984 and helped build the modern circus into a global brand

can you believe that? Not really .People got stuff wrong w/ them

Now one should be above the law. If the law is unreasonable should not make you break it but challenge it through the path of Democracy.

Ganja

Idiot

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