Gay Tony would later be heavily in debt to her father. Sometime after opening the club, he met Gracie Ancelotti, a mob daughter who once failed to get inside Maisonette 9 but was granted a membership after befriending Gay Tony (as Gracie tells Niko Bellic in " I'll Take Her"). In 2003 his hiatus ended and he was allowed to open Maisonette 9, but still came under heavier scrutiny for his club's policies on safety, age-checking and drug use. Maisonette 9 ownership and personal struggles Edit Sometime between 19, the counterpart straight club in Tony's portfolio was called Death By Machines, until it burned down and Tony was briefly banned from opening new venues. That same year, he got in police trouble for "public lewdness". After the failure of 2 Backed Beast, he opened Hercules in 1999. In 1996, he was arrested for possession of cocaine. At the height of his career, he also proprieted clubs called Peacock, Platonic Fury and Cox (Tony "returned to the gay scene" in 1999, which would suggest that none of those three clubs were gay-oriented). Height of career and reputation Edit Īccording to the Maisonette 9 website, his next club (and first gay club) was Thunder in 1986 which was later renamed 2 Backed Beast and eventually shut down by the city. According to Luis, Tony also first earned the nickname "Gay Tony" in 1985 - as the nickname suggests, Tony became openly homosexual by the time he was 27. In 1983, the first club he opened for himself was PUDDLE, a rave venue, until Tony was arrested for tax evasion in 1985, spending 3 months in jail. His first experience working at a nightclub came from being in the cloakroom and eventually the front door of Elephant, until a fire caused it to shut down. Tony would have gone to college as early as 1975, though he did not focus on his studies. He says, "In my day, gay guys used to be lonely, needy, and lost. He is ashamed of his Dukes background, and it's hinted during the beginning of Departure Time that he doesn't speak to his parents anymore. He also used to play in front of the Monoglobe and would sometimes stare into it, wondering what life was like in different countries. He grew up in Dukes, and according to the Maisonette 9 website, "as a young boy he wandered to the Humboldt River and dreamed of living on the other side (in Algonquin) so he would no longer be considered bridge and tunnel". Tony Prince was born in 1958 in Dukes to Jewish parents. 2.1 Maisonette 9 ownership and personal struggles." We're not spics, guidos, or fags - We're proud Americans." -Anthony Prince.Īnthony Prince, otherwise known as Gay Tony or Tony Prince, is a nightclub entrepreneur in the GTA IV Era, the owner of both Maisonette 9 and Hercules, and a character in GTA IV, The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony. Purple Infernus (pictured in the trailer) The Lost and Damned The Ballad of Gay Tonyġ958/1963 (LCPD database claims he is 50, although he claims to be 45)ĭessie Joni Troy Cindy Yusuf Amir Rocco Pelosi (formerly)
1.6 Possible real-life inspirationsEdit.1.3.1 Maisonette 9 ownership and personal strugglesEdit.