CBC News is reporting that Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté has been served with a $500,000 defamation lawsuit over remarks made about Ian Halperin following the pulbication of his book “Guy Laliberté: The Fabulous Story of the Creator of Cirque du Soleil.”
- In an interview with The Canadian Press in July of 2009, Laliberté described the book as “a piece of crap” and full of lies. In subsequent interviews, he described Halperin and his lawyers as “crooks.”
According to court documents, Halperin’s lawyers have sent several letters to Laliberté demanding that he stop attacking the book.
Laliberté has replied with letters from his own lawyers, asking Halperin to stop repeating the book’s “lies and defamation” in media interviews about it.
Read more about the lawsuit here.
{ SOURCE: CBC News }
