His status as a protege of the great artist had many benefits, but was ultimately a burden.
While Yau was in China, he visited Xi-Ping Zhu, a protégé of his who was now chairman of the mathematics department at Sun Yat-sen University. — Manifold Destiny by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, The New Yorker.
Though formerly a protégée and friend of Sarkozy, Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.