Gracie and Evan first got him hooked on painkillers and cocaine, according to Luis, and by 2008 Tony had been to rehab five times. They quickly form 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." Gay Tony had been dating a yoga instructor long-term before meeting his boyfriend Evan Moss. In 2005, Gay Tony hired Luis Lopez 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 & Personal Struggles Sometime between 19, the counterpart straight club in Tony's portfolio, Death By Machines also burned down, after which point Tony was briefly banned from opening new venues. The following year, he got in trouble with the police for "public lewdness".
After the failure of 2 Backed Beast, he opened Hercules in 1998. In 1996, he was arrested for possession of cocaine. At the height of his career, he also owned the clubs Peacock, Platonic Fury, and Cox. 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, Tony's next club (and first gay club) was Thunder in 1986 which was later renamed 2 Backed Beast and was eventually shut down by the city. The first club Tony opened for himself was PUDDLE, a rave venue famously located in a converted mortuary, until it was shut down when 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 in the mid- 1980s 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.
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 the Midwest in 1958 (although he claims to have been born in 1963) and grew up in Dukes. History Background Childhood & College Years
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