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In his career spanning sixteen years — , he enjoyed numerous successes in France and the French-speaking world , as well as singing in languages other than French. He had a career in Finland , Greece , and Germany. Dassin lived in New York City and Los Angeles until his father fell victim to the Hollywood blacklist in , at which time his family moved to Europe.

Between the ages of ten and fifteen Dassin changed schools eleven times. Dassin moved back to the United States, where he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from to , winning an undergraduate Hopwood Award for fiction in and earning a Bachelor of Arts in and a Master of Arts in , both in Anthropology.

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Moving to France, Dassin worked as a technician for his father and appeared as an actor in supporting roles, among others in three movies directed by his father, including Topkapi in which he played the role of Josef. By the early s, Dassin's songs were at the top of the charts in France, and he became immensely popular there.

Their son Joshua was born two and a half months early on September 12, , and died five days later. Overcome by grief, Joe became deeply depressed. Despite all their efforts, their marriage did not survive. In , one year after their move to their newly built home in Feucherolles , just outside Paris, they divorced. Their first son, Jonathan, was born on 14 September ; and their second son, Julien, arrived on March 22, Christine died in December Dassin died from a heart attack during a vacation to Tahiti on August 20, , aged A doctor who was also eating at the restaurant performed CPR on him, but Dassin died at the restaurant.