Rene is so vain and bothered by his aging years that he allegedly paid millions to have unflattering photographs of him collected and destroyed so they could not be posted on the Internet or used by the tabloids.
He was not entirely successful.
He is rather creeepy. He was her manager when she was still a teen-age phenom. Reminds me a little of Woody Allen and Mia's adopted daughter - nothing strictly illegal (as far as we know), but definitely creepy.