I always heard he was a royal asshole. When one of his "pupils" didn't win a local bodybuilding show, he'd make a real stink over the guy who won. "The most muscular STICK!" he'd yell of the winner.
There was a dude at Ironage who was a sworn disciple of Steve, doing all of the Intensity or Insanity workouts. He loyally stuck by Steve for a long time and never improved, dropping down to like a heavy bantam or something after many years of toiling away. The only way he finally started to improve was to get as far the fuck away from that stupid "hurf durf 100 sets per bodypart" bullshit Steve "Anadrol? 200mg daily!" so-called "guru" as he could.
Steve was also VERY quick to blame all of his health problems on drugs. We all know he abused the hell out of anabolics but plenty of other douchebags have used every drug in the book, been ten times the bodybuilder he was, and yet they're not pushing up daisies or suffering from horrifically bad health.
I won't even touch on his stupid surf-dumping bullshit with Defendis. The man was crazy. If he had family, I hope they soon come to cope with his loss. Otherwise, who can cry or mourn someone who might tease you for doing the same?