Born Jean-Claude Julien Leon Tronville in 1943. At age 14, he struck out on his own, first to Paris where, as a bellhop in the Hôtel Scribe, he met Josephine Baker, an entertainer, activist, and wartime French Resistance agent.

Baker became the legal guardian of Jean-Claude, and he was then an unofficial addition to the 12 adopted children of her orphan "rainbow tribe." He took her surname, and as a budding showman of his own, fostered her career.

Baker ran a popular nightclub, Pimm's Cafe, in West Berlin during the 1960s, and in 1986 opened the cafe Chez Josephine in New York. In 1993, he co-authored, with Chris Chase, a biography of Josephine Baker, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, described as a "shocking look into the star's seriously whitewashed past".

This episode of Geraldo featured a panel of the children of celebrities. This edit is every moment Jean Claude spoke during the hour.

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