Without his modeling being as in demand as the internet took over it may have made his earnings more pedestrian with his FT job which Google says didn’t pay much. 
In the 00’s he must have banked some decent money though. 
With the advent of the smart phone it has led to a lot of unthinkable acts happening as people are looking at screens instead of the real world. 
How someone couldn’t know a train was near seems preposterous or it shows him taking risks out of an urge to stay relevant in the newer media forms. 
Some friends of mine were up a some hill or mountain in Ibiza near some cliff or something. 
One of the guys had something happen with his phone and he fell and died. 
Guy had a prestigious job too. The story in the mainstream media in the USA said it had nothing to do with his phone, but that’s not what I heard from FB originally.