Ignoring school, he spent the middle part of the 1980s working the cloakroom and then the door at the legendary Elephant, until that closed down following a fire. I should be sent to prison, shouldn't I?".Īccording to Tony Prince, the legendary "Gay Tony", grew up in Dukes, as a young boy he wandered to the Humboldt River and dreamed of living on the other side so he would no longer be considered bridge and tunnel and as soon as he went to college, his dream came true.
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Tony once confides in Luis during I Luv LC "Oh my god, 45 years old and I get my kicks doing blow with 17 year old kids whose only claim to fame is that people know better what their vagina looks like than their face.
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Like Gracie, Cloe uses a lot of cocaine and influences Tony down a similar path. He also gained world-famous heiress Cloe Parker as a best customer and casual friend. Gracie and Evan first got him hooked on painkillers and cocaine, according to Luis, and by 2008 Tony had been to rehab 5 times. Gay Tony had been dating a yoga instructor long-term before meeting his boyfriend Evan Moss. They quickly formed a father-son-like relationship (Luis having been abandoned by his father, and Tony being unlikely to ever have children due to his age and orientation), although Tony later admits to Luis "I only hired you because I thought you were dumb".
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Tony met Luis Lopez in a prison outreach program, and in 2005, Gay Tony hired him as a doorman and bouncer for Hercules. 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 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). 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.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. 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 of growing up in the 1970s, "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 likely would have struggled with his sexuality in his teen years, especially growing up in a somewhat dangerous neighborhood. 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 most likely born in 1958 in the Midwest (his age and birthplace is subject to debate) to Jewish parents.
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1.3 Maisonette 9 ownership and personal struggles.