The 48 - year - old has something of a
shady past in this aspect, and has been involved in a number of questionable activieis
such as money laundering and getting involved in
business deals with drug lords.
And then, of course, there's the film's eventual premiere, when Wiseau first endures the feeling of having audiences laugh at his work, for which he had bared his soul and burned several million dollars of a fortune whose origins are anybody's guess (although «
such nosy person» Sestero's best guess in the book, involving a
shady business called Street Fashions USA, isn't even mentioned in the film).