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And though the property entered escrow within six weeks, it oddly took nearly one full year before the sale finally closed this February (2019) for exactly $5.4 million. In early 2018, he tossed it onto the market with a $5,750,000 pricetag. Laliberté acquired this place way back in 1996 for $2,267,000. Yolanda’s careful perusal of records suggests Mr. Other than an ivy-covered three-car garage, the entire property is obscured from the streetfront behind an enormous hedge. Laliberté’s former 90210 residence is located at the very end of a road in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood, the very same hillside road where other residents include future billionaire computer heiress Alexa Dell and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Including this spread in the mountains above Beverly Hills, which apparently he no longer needs/wants. And like all proper billionaires, he’s owned luxury homes all over the globe. Our boy has sired a total of five children with two ex-girlfriends - Italian model Claudia Barilla and Brazilian model Rizia Moreira. Laliberté - who will turn 60 this year - famously sued the publishers of an unauthorized biography which “ depicts him as a bed-hopping scoundrel with an inexhaustible appetite for sex, drugs, and a rock and roll lifestyle.” (If we’re being honest, Yolanda is not sure what the outcome of said lawsuit was.) Along the path to billionairedom he spent $41.8 million to become Canada’s first space tourist, held the record as high-stakes poker’s biggest loser, and currently toils as a DJ and nightclub entrepreneur. At one time he owned a full 90% of the outfit, but in 2015 he sold the majority of his interest to a private equity firm for a reported $1.5 billion. Laliberté built Cirque du Soleil into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. Or perhaps the correct adjective is fun-loving? Judge for yourselves.īeginning as a penniless acrobat and street performer, the Québécois Mr. And now that he’s a billionaire, said eccentricity has been amplified.

Laliberté’s case, we suspect he was always a bit eccentric. If you’re generous, success imbues you with mega-generosity. A long time ago, we read a quote from bazillionaire educator Lynda Weinman, who said (in part): “ Success is an amplifier.” So if you’re not a nice person to start, success will make you - well, even less nice. Watching a Cirque du Soleil show is a bit like partaking of an illegal substance then carelessly entering and wandering wide-eyed through a death-defying and fantastical world of freaky body benders, mystical creatures on stilts and fearless aerialists whom Your Mama thinks must have less common sense than a boll weevel to even consider pouring themselves into genitalia-revealing outfits and flinging their lithe and lust-producing bodies up into the air like they don’t have a damn bone to break.Įven if Yolanda had actually seen a Cirque du Soleil show, we couldn’t describe it any better than that.īut back to Mr.
