There's racism + bad/no investments and there's turning down studio Diddlers. Guy lucked out modeling for Mugler + Klein, starring in iconic music vids, and cast in cool movies. Not bad for a French junior high dropout; he'd have a decent performers' pension (and free weekly groceries via a generous food stamp system) had he stayed in France. Write a memoir and plaster its publicity all over Paris---the French ADORE expat success stories. . .however abysmal.