Appeared on Inside Edition (1988) in 1995. In the report, he revealed that he had lost most of his money and was living in a small apartment in South Central Los Angeles.
His father was a trumpet player who left the family when Greg was three years old. He spent part of his youth in New York, where his mother was a secretary to A. Philip Randolph, the black labor unionist leader, civil rights activist and socialist politician, who in 1925 organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African-American labor union.
