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In a good year, he makes about $200,000.

At 17, he quit his college of technology and went to Paris, where he worked as a waiter in his brother's restaurant.

Got his first break-through into the adult film industry in a Parisian swinger's club when he met Gabriel Pontello, editor of "Supersex" magazine. He was 19.

His sons with his wife Rosa, are Lorenzo Siffredi, born April 16, 1996, who sometimes works as camera operator in his father's films, and Leonardo, born in 1999.

He has filmed on location from Los Angeles to Kenya, and from Australia to the Philippines.

Choose his screen name from Alain Delon's character in Borsalino (1970): Roch Siffredi. Ten years before Delon had played the sensitive young Rocco in Rocco und seine Brüder (1960), the movie that set his stardom.

Announced that he was retiring from performing on camera in adult movies. However, he will continue to work behind the scenes as a director. (June 2004)

European adult film star.