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| image = DonaldLove-GTAIII.jpg
|name = Donald Love
| game_1 = GTA III
|image = DonaldLove-GTAIII.jpg
| game_2 = GTA Vice City
|size = 120px
| game_3 = GTA Liberty City Stories
|games = [[Grand Theft Auto III]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]
| name = Donald Love
|aka = D.L.
| aka = DL<br />Don
|gender = M
| status = Alive
|pob = [[United States]]
| gender = M
|home = [[Bedford Point]], [[Staunton Island]], [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]].
| dob =
|nationality = [[United States of America|American]]
| dob-comment =
| pob =
| dod =
| dod-comment =
| home = [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]]<br />[[Bedford Point]], [[Staunton Island]], [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]]
| nationality = United States
| family =
| affiliations = [[Avery Carrington]]<br />[[Salvatore Leone]]<br />[[Toni Cipriani]]<br />[[Humphries]]<br />[[8-Ball]]<br />[[Colombian Cartel]]<br />[[Love Media]]<br />[[Panlantic Construction Company]]<br />[[Old Oriental Gentleman]]<br />[[Claude]]
| vehicles = White [[Stretch]]
| businesses = Construction<br />Real estate<br />[[Panlantic Construction Company]] <small>(former)</small><br />[[Love Media]]<br />[[Liberty Tree]]<br />[[Chatterbox FM]]<br />[[Double Clef FM]]<br />[[Flashback 95.6]]<br />[[Head Radio]]<br />[[Bitch'n' Dog Food]]
| voice = [[Kyle MacLachlan]] <small>(GTA III)</small><br />Unknown <small>(GTA Vice City)</small><br />[[Will Janowitz]] <small>(GTA Liberty City Stories)</small>
}}


|affiliations = [[Avery Carrington]]<br>[[Salvatore Leone]]<br>[[Toni Cipriani]]<br>[[Humphries]]<br>[[8-Ball]]<br>[[Colombian Cartel]]<br>[[Love Media]]<br>[[Panlantic Construction Company]]<br>[[Old Oriental Gentleman]]<br>[[Claude]]
'''Donald Love''' is a character in the [[3D Universe]] who appears as a supporting character in [[Grand Theft Auto III]] (set in [[2001]]), a minor character in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] (set in [[1986]]), and a main character in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] (set in [[1998]]). He is the multi-billionaire owner of the [[Love Media]] conglomerate and is also involved in construction and real estate industries. In GTA III he is voiced by [[Kyle MacLachlan]], who has also appeared in ''Desperate Housewives'', and in GTA Liberty City Stories by [[Will Janowitz]], who has also appeared in ''The Sopranos''. The voice actor for Donald Love's appearance in GTA Vice City is not credited.
|vehicles = White [[Stretch]]
|businesses = Construction<br>Real Estate<br>[[Love Media]]<br>[[Liberty Tree]]<br>[[Chatterbox FM]]<br>[[Double Clef FM]]<br>[[Flashback 95.6]]<br>[[Head Radio]]<br>[[Bitch'n' Dog Food]]
|voice = [[Kyle MacLachlan]] <small>(GTA III)</small><br>Unknown <small>(GTA Vice City)</small><br>[[Will Janowitz]] <small>(GTA Liberty City Stories)</small>
}}
'''Donald Love''' is a recurring character in the [[Grand Theft Auto]] series appearing in [[Grand Theft Auto III]] (set in [[2001]]), [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] (set in [[1986]]) and [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] (set in [[1998]]). He is the multi-billionaire owner of the [[Love Media]] conglomerate and is also involved in construction and real estate industries. In GTA III he is voiced by [[Kyle MacLachlan]], who has also appeared in ''Desperate Housewives'', and in GTA Liberty City Stories by [[Will Janowitz]], who has also appeared in ''The Sopranos''. The voice actor for Donald Love's appearance in GTA Vice City is not creditted.


==Character history==
== Character history ==
===Life until 1998===
=== Life until 1998 ===
He became the protegé of real estate expert [[Avery Carrington]], often following him with a note pad and pen, including to one of [[Juan Cortez|Colonel Cortez']] [[The Party|parties]] and once met [[Tommy Vercetti]], who Avery was hiring to [[Two Bit Hit|start a gang war]] between the [[Cubans]] and the [[Haitians]]. Avery's willingness to use any method to bring down property prices would leave an impression on Love. At some point between [[1986]] and [[1998]] he moved to [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] and established himself as a successful businessman, starting the [[Love Media]] company, purchasing a building in [[Bedford Point]] and opening an [[Car-azy Car Give Away|import garage]].
He became the protegé of real estate expert [[Avery Carrington]], often following him with a note pad and pen, including to one of [[Juan Cortez|Colonel Cortez']] [[The Party|parties]] and once met [[Tommy Vercetti]], who Avery was hiring to [[Two Bit Hit|start a gang war]] between the [[Cubans]] and the [[Haitians]] while [[Havana|disguised as a Cuban]]. Avery's willingness to use any method to bring down property prices would leave an impression on Love. At some point between [[1986]] and [[1998]] he moved to [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] and established himself as a successful businessman, starting the [[Love Media]] company, purchasing a building in [[Bedford Point]] and opening an [[Car-azy Car Give Away|import garage]].


===1998===
=== 1998 ===
Donald Love enters the race to become the mayor of Liberty City, following the [[A Walk in the Park|murder]] of incumbent [[Roger C. Hole]], running against [[Miles O'Donovan]]. He begins to work for [[Leone Family]] [[Boss|Don]] [[Salvatore Leone]] and uses [[Toni Cipriani]], who killed Mayor Hole, and uses his wealth to his advantage. Love hires Cipriani to first [[The Morgue Party Candidate|stealing]] a corpse for Love to eat, before having him [[Steering the Vote|campaign]] for him and [[Cam-Pain|kill]] some of O'Donovan's campaigners. Love then discovers that the [[Forelli Family]], a rival to the Leone Family who had controlled Mayor Hole, own a stake in the company printing the ballot papers, sending Toni to [[Friggin' the Riggin'|destroying]] the printing factory. Love, realising the voting is close, decides to campaign himself but is almost killed by the Forelli Family in an [[Love & Bullets|ambush]], but is rescued by Cipriani, who later [[Counterfeit Count|attempts to rig]] the election.
Donald Love enters the [[Mayoralty of Liberty City in GTA III Era|race to become the mayor]] of Liberty City, following the [[A Walk in the Park|murder]] of incumbent [[Roger C. Hole]], running against [[Miles O'Donovan]]. He begins to work for [[Leone Family]] [[Gang Leaders|Don]] [[Salvatore Leone]] and uses [[Toni Cipriani]], who killed Mayor Hole, and uses his wealth to his advantage. Love hires Cipriani to first [[The Morgue Party Candidate|steal]] a corpse for Love to eat, before having him [[Steering the Vote|campaign]] for him and [[Cam-Pain|kill]] some of O'Donovan's campaigners. Love then discovers that the [[Forelli Family]], a rival to the Leone Family who had controlled Mayor Hole, own a stake in the company printing the ballot papers, sending Toni to [[Friggin' the Riggin'|destroy]] the printing factory. Love, realizing the voting is close, decides to campaign himself but is almost killed by the Forelli Family in an [[Love & Bullets|ambush]], but is rescued by Cipriani, who later [[Counterfeit Count|attempts to rig]] the election.


Love later discovers that O'Donovan has evidence linking him with the Leone Family and sends Toni to [[Love on the Rocks|destroy]] the evidence. The links between Love and the Leone Family, however, are too obvious and the election is won by O'Donovan. Love, having spent all his money on his campaign, is forced to move to a flophouse in [[Pike Creek]], [[Shoreside Vale]]. Love, however, does not give up and later employs Cipriani to [[Panlantic Land Grab|kill]] former mentor Avery Carrington to steal his re-development plans for [[Fort Staunton]], killing many [[Colombian Cartel]] escorts as well, before [[Stop the Press|killing]] [[Liberty Tree]] reporter [[Ned Burner]], who had witnessed the murder. Cipriani later [[Morgue Party Resurrection|collects the corpses]] of both Carrington and Burner for Love to eat.
Love later discovers that O'Donovan has evidence linking him with the Leone Family and sends Toni to [[Love on the Rocks|destroy]] the evidence. The links between Love and the Leone Family, however, are too obvious and the election is won by O'Donovan. Love, having spent all his money on his campaign, is forced to move to a flophouse in [[Pike Creek]], [[Shoreside Vale]]. Love, however, does not give up and later employs Cipriani to [[Panlantic Land Grab|kill]] former mentor Avery Carrington to steal his re-development plans for [[Fort Staunton]], killing many [[Colombian Cartel]] escorts as well, before [[Stop the Press|killing]] [[Liberty Tree]] reporter [[Ned Burner]], who had witnessed the murder. Cipriani later [[Morgue Party Resurrection|collects the corpses]] of both Carrington and Burner for Love to eat.


Donald Love also hires Cipriani to destroy the Fort Staunton district of Staunton Island, a Forelli strong hold, which he [[Bringing the House Down|does]], using explosives provided by [[8-Ball]]. Love, confident of his future success, purchases a [[Cartel Mansion|mansion]] in [[Cedar Grove]] and locks himself away, fearing a reprisal from the Colombian Cartel, who [[Love on the Run|attempt to kill]] him but they are thwarted by Cipriani, who takes him to his private jet at [[Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale|Francis International Airport]], where the bodies of Carrington and Burner are in storage. By 2001, the same mansion is taken over by the Cartel, while Donald Love seeks to live in the Love Media tower to avoid certain taxes.
Donald Love also hires Cipriani to destroy the Fort Staunton district of Staunton Island, a Forelli strong hold, which he [[Bringing the House Down|does]], using explosives provided by [[8-Ball]]. Love, confident of his future success, purchases a [[Cartel Mansion|mansion]] in [[Cedar Grove]] and locks himself away, fearing a reprisal from the Colombian Cartel, who [[Love on the Run|attempt to kill]] him but they are thwarted by Cipriani, who takes him to his private jet at [[Francis International Airport in GTA III Era|Francis International Airport]], where the bodies of Carrington and Burner are in storage. By 2001, the same mansion is taken over by the Cartel, while Donald Love seeks to live in the Love Media tower to avoid certain taxes.


===Life until October 2001===
=== Life until October 2001 ===
Donald Love flies to an unconfirmed location in the United States and continues to expand his business, also living on a yacht in the Caribbean. He is known to have changed laws, been involved in slum clearance and opened casinos across the United States, in the process becoming a "legend" according to a Liberty Tree report. He returns to the city in March 2001, following the return of fellow businessman and rival [[Barry Harcross]], and begins to expand his business empire in the city. He re-establishes [[Love Media]] and purchases over nine hundred radio stations (including [[Chatterbox FM]], [[Double Clef FM]], [[Flashback 95.6]] and [[Head Radio]]), three hundred television stations, four networks, three satellites, ten senators, the [[Liberty Tree]] newspaper, the [[Bitch'n' Dog Food]] company and the thirty-story [[Love Media Building]] in Bedford Point. He also hires an [[Old Oriental Gentleman]] to teach him Tai Chi, sending a private plane to bring him to the city, although the man is arrested by the immigration chief [[Ray Mathers]]. At some point between 1998 and 2001, Love begins to implent his plans redevelop Fort Staunton with the Colombian Cartel and their front company, [[Panlantic Construction Company|Panlantic Construction]], suggesting he had paid the Cartel off.
Donald Love flies to an unconfirmed location in the United States and continues to expand his business, also living on a yacht in the Caribbean. He is known to have changed laws, been involved in slum clearance and opened casinos across the United States, in the process becoming a "legend" according to a Liberty Tree report. He returns to the city in March 2001, following the return of fellow businessman and rival [[Barry Harcross]], and begins to expand his business empire in the city. He re-establishes [[Love Media]] and purchases over nine hundred radio stations (including [[Chatterbox FM]], [[Double Clef FM]], [[Flashback 95.6]], and [[Head Radio]]), three hundred television stations, four networks, three satellites, ten senators, the [[Liberty Tree]] newspaper, the [[Bitch'n' Dog Food]] company, and the thirty-story [[Love Media Building]] in Bedford Point. He also hires an [[Old Oriental Gentleman]] to teach him Tai Chi, sending a private plane to bring him to the city, although the man is arrested by the immigration chief [[Ray Mathers]]. At some point between 1998 and 2001, Love begins to implant his plans redevelop Fort Staunton with the Colombian Cartel and their front company, [[Panlantic Construction Company|Panlantic Construction]], suggesting he had paid the Cartel off.


===October 2001===
=== October 2001 ===
Donald Love continues to oversee the development of Fort Staunton and run his media conglomerate from his home in Bedford Point, although his old oriental gentleman is [[Introduction (GTA III)|kidnapped]] by the Cartel whilst he was being transferred to a police station in [[Portland View]], [[Portland Island]]. He later hires [[Claude]], who also escaped in the ambushed convoy, to [[Liberator|rescue]] the old oriental gentleman from a Cartel hide out in [[Aspatria]], before having him [[Waka-Gashira Wipeout|kill]] [[Yakuza]] co-leader [[Kenji Kasen]], whilst disguised as a Cartel gangster, in order to provoke a gang war between the two to drive down property prices. Claude is then sent to [[A Drop In The Ocean|collect decoy packages]] before [[Grand Theft Aero|being sent to collect the real package]], eventually going to a construction site in Fort Staunton where he finds ex-girlfriend and Cartel leader [[Catalina]], with [[Miguel]] and the package. He retrieves the package for Love and works for him one last time, acting as a [[Decoy|decoy]] to allow the old oriental gentleman to escape with the package. Love later [[Love's Disappearance|disappears]] with the old oriental gentleman, with [[Rockstar Games]] stating themselves that Love's fate is ambiguous. [http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/2009/09/28/971/asked_&_answered_–_re_episodes_from_liberty_city_yusuf_amir_donald_love_and_l.a._noire]
Donald Love continues to oversee the development of Fort Staunton and run his media conglomerate from his home in Bedford Point, although his old oriental gentleman is [[Introduction (GTA III)|kidnapped]] by the Cartel whilst he was being transferred to a police station in [[Portland View]], [[Portland]]. He later hires [[Claude]], who also escaped in the ambushed convoy, to [[Liberator|rescue]] the old oriental gentleman from a Cartel hide out in [[Aspatria]], before having him [[Waka-Gashira Wipeout|kill]] [[Yakuza]] co-leader [[Kenji Kasen]], whilst disguised as a Cartel gangster, in order to provoke a gang war between the two to drive down property prices. Claude is then sent to [[A Drop in the Ocean|collect decoy packages]] before [[Grand Theft Aero|being sent to collect the real package]], eventually going to a construction site in Fort Staunton where he finds ex-girlfriend and Cartel leader [[Catalina]], with [[Miguel]] and the package. He retrieves the package for Love and works for him one last time, acting as a [[decoy]] to allow the old oriental gentleman to escape with the package. Love later [[Love's Disappearance|disappears]] with the old oriental gentleman, with [[Rockstar Games]] stating themselves that Love's fate is ambiguous.


==Personality==
== Personality ==
Donald Love is a cannibal, as seen during the mission [[Cam Pain]], where he eats human ribs and describes human flesh as being "like chicken" but "more sentient". He is also known to throw morgue parties, as revealed in both GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, even having Toni Cipriani steal the corpses of [[Avery Carrington]] and [[Ned Burner]] to eat.
Donald Love is a cannibal, as seen during the mission [[Cam Pain]], where he eats human ribs and describes human flesh as being "like chicken" but "more sentient". He is also known to throw morgue parties, as revealed in both GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, even having [[Toni Cipriani]] steal the corpses of [[Avery Carrington]] and [[Ned Burner]] to eat.


In [[GTA Liberty City Stories]], he is much more flamboyant, and still looks to be very young. Only 3 years later, in [[GTA III]], he has a much deeper, more mature voice, puts on some weight and appears to be more towards his forties.
In GTA Liberty City Stories, he is much more flamboyant, and still looks to be very young. Only 3 years later, in GTA III, he has a much deeper, more mature voice, puts on some weight and appears to be more towards his forties.


==Trivia==
== Trivia ==
*One of Donald Love's lines in GTA III is almost exactly replicated in GTA Vice City by his mentor Avery Carrington, although the events occur the other way around in the game universe. Love states, during the misson [[Waka-Gashira Wipeout]], that "Nothing drives down real estate prices like a good old fashioned gang war, apart from the outbreak of a plague, but that might going too far in this case". While during the mission [[Two Bit Hit]] in GTA Vice City, Avery Carrington states "Now, nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a good old-fashioned gang war - 'cept maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague or something, but, that may be going too far in this case".
* One of Donald Love's lines in GTA III is almost exactly replicated in GTA Vice City by his mentor Avery Carrington, although the events occur the other way around in the game universe. Love states, during the mission [[Waka-Gashira Wipeout]], that "Nothing drives down real estate prices like a good old fashioned gang war, apart from the outbreak of a plague, but that might going too far in this case". While during the mission [[Two Bit Hit]] in GTA Vice City, Avery Carrington states "Now, nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a good old-fashioned gang war - 'cept maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague or something, but, that may be going too far in this case".
*Some newspapers in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] carry images of Donald Love.
* Donald's character may have crossed over from the third to fourth eras, some newspapers in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] carry images of Donald Love stating he has a ''hate relationship with taxes''. There is also a movie/book that can be found in [[Playboy X]]'s mansion, it is titled '''The Liberty King''', and features Donald Love's artwork on the cover with the skyline of Liberty City behind him.
*He may be partially based on [[:wp:Michael_Bloomberg|Michael Bloomberg]], who was one of the ten wealthiest men in the world with $5 billion in 2001. Both men also invested in becoming the mayors of their cities.
* He may be partially based on [[:wp:Michael Bloomberg|Michael Bloomberg]], who was one of the ten wealthiest men in the world with $5 billion in 2001. Both men also invested in becoming the mayors of their cities.
*He is the second character with most game appearences, appearing in three games and beaten only by [[Phil Cassidy]] who appears on four. The games he appears in are [[Grand Theft Auto III]], [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].
* Love was rumored have been killed in [[Love Hurts]], a mission where Claude would steal a [[Dodo]] to crash it into the Love Media Building and kill Love. This mission was supposedly deleted following the similar 9/11 attacks on New York City. However, in 2012, Rockstar revealed that this mission did not ever exist.
* Love, along with [[Alex Shrub]] and [[Thomas Stubbs]], were nominated for [http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/46051/cast-your-ballot-rockstars-sleaziest-politicians.html Rockstar's Sleaziest Politicians].
* Despite Love's past rivalry with Mayor O'Donovan, he was noted to have met him on at least one occasion in September 2001, and even commented positively about O'Donovan in the Liberty Tree newspaper.
* Donald Love has a star in the [[Vinewood Walk of Fame]].


== Mission appearances ==
== Mission appearances ==
;GTA III
; GTA III
*[[Liberator]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Liberator]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Waka-Gashira Wipeout]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Waka-Gashira Wipeout]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[A Drop In The Ocean]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[A Drop in the Ocean]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Grand Theft Aero]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Grand Theft Aero]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Escort Service]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Escort Service]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Decoy]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Decoy]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Love's Disappearance]] <small>(Boss/Disappearance)</small>
* [[Love's Disappearance]] <small>(Boss/Disappearance)</small>


;GTA Vice City
; GTA Vice City
*[[The Party]]
* [[The Party]]
*[[Two Bit Hit]]
* [[Two Bit Hit]]


;GTA Liberty City Stories
; GTA Liberty City Stories
*[[The Morgue Party Candidate]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[The Morgue Party Candidate]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Steering the Vote]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Steering the Vote]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Cam-Pain]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Cam-Pain]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Friggin' the Riggin']] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Friggin' the Riggin']] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Love and Bullets]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Love and Bullets]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Counterfeit Count]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Counterfeit Count]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Love on the Rocks]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Love on the Rocks]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Panlantic Land Grab]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Panlantic Land Grab]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Stop the Press]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Stop the Press]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Morgue Party Resurrection]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Morgue Party Resurrection]] <small>(Boss)</small>
*[[Bringing the House Down]]
* [[Bringing the House Down]]
*[[Love on the Run]] <small>(Boss)</small>
* [[Love on the Run]] <small>(Boss)</small>


==Gallery==
== Gallery ==
;Grand Theft Auto III
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<gallery>
File:DonaldLove-GTAIII-artwork.jpg|Concept artwork of Donald Love.
DonaldLove-Artwork.gif|Concept artwork of Donald Love
File:DonaldLove-GTAVC.jpg|Donald Love in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]
ADropintheOcean-GTAIII.jpg|Donald Love and the [[Old Oriental Gentleman]] practicing Tai Chi
File:DonaldLove-GTALCS.jpg|Donald Love in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]].
GrandTheftAero-GTAIII.jpg|Donald Love explaining to [[Claude]] his real motive during [[Grand Theft Aero]]
File:LibertyTree-GTAIV-DonaldLove.jpg|The copy of the [[Liberty Tree]] in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] with Donald Love's face; notice the [[Love Media]] logo to the right.
EscortService-GTAIII.jpg|Donald Love asking [[Claude]] to follow the [[Old Oriental Gentleman]] and the package to [[Pike Creek]] during [[Escort Service]]
Decoy-GTAIII.jpg|Donald Love asking [[Claude]] to work as a decoy during [[Decoy]]
Love Media.png|Love Media logo
</gallery>
</gallery>


;Grand Theft Auto
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DonaldLove-GTAVC.jpg|Donald Love during [[The Party]]
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TheParty-GTAVC3.jpg|Donald Love watching [[Avery Carrington]] and [[BJ Smith]] talk in [[The Party]], with [[Tommy Vercetti]] and [[Mercedes Cortez]] watching
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;Grand Theft Auto
: Liberty City Stories
<gallery>
DonaldLove-GTALCS.jpg|Donald Love in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]
Cam-Pain-GTALCS.jpg|Donald Love talking to [[Toni Cipriani]], with the remains a human torso on the table, during [[Cam Pain]]
Love&Bullets-GTALCS.png|Donald Love and [[Toni Cipriani]] during [[Love and Bullets]]
MorguePartyResurrection-GTALCS.jpg|Donald Love and Toni Cipriani about to steal [[Avery Carrington|Avery Carrington's corpse]] in [[Morgue Party Resurrection]]
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Latest revision as of 23:24, 13 May 2015

Character
Donald Love
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Appearances GTA III
GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories
Full Name Donald Love
Aliases DL
Don
Status

Alive

Gender Gender::Male
Nationality American
Home Vice City
Bedford Point, Staunton Island, Liberty City
Main Affiliations Avery Carrington
Salvatore Leone
Toni Cipriani
Humphries
8-Ball
Colombian Cartel
Love Media
Panlantic Construction Company
Old Oriental Gentleman
Claude
Vehicles White Stretch
Businesses Construction
Real estate
Panlantic Construction Company (former)
Love Media
Liberty Tree
Chatterbox FM
Double Clef FM
Flashback 95.6
Head Radio
Bitch'n' Dog Food
Voiced by Kyle MacLachlan (GTA III)
Unknown (GTA Vice City)
Will Janowitz (GTA Liberty City Stories)
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Donald Love is a character in the 3D Universe who appears as a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto III (set in 2001), a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (set in 1986), and a main character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (set in 1998). He is the multi-billionaire owner of the Love Media conglomerate and is also involved in construction and real estate industries. In GTA III he is voiced by Kyle MacLachlan, who has also appeared in Desperate Housewives, and in GTA Liberty City Stories by Will Janowitz, who has also appeared in The Sopranos. The voice actor for Donald Love's appearance in GTA Vice City is not credited.

Character history

Life until 1998

He became the protegé of real estate expert Avery Carrington, often following him with a note pad and pen, including to one of Colonel Cortez' parties and once met Tommy Vercetti, who Avery was hiring to start a gang war between the Cubans and the Haitians while disguised as a Cuban. Avery's willingness to use any method to bring down property prices would leave an impression on Love. At some point between 1986 and 1998 he moved to Liberty City and established himself as a successful businessman, starting the Love Media company, purchasing a building in Bedford Point and opening an import garage.

1998

Donald Love enters the race to become the mayor of Liberty City, following the murder of incumbent Roger C. Hole, running against Miles O'Donovan. He begins to work for Leone Family Don Salvatore Leone and uses Toni Cipriani, who killed Mayor Hole, and uses his wealth to his advantage. Love hires Cipriani to first steal a corpse for Love to eat, before having him campaign for him and kill some of O'Donovan's campaigners. Love then discovers that the Forelli Family, a rival to the Leone Family who had controlled Mayor Hole, own a stake in the company printing the ballot papers, sending Toni to destroy the printing factory. Love, realizing the voting is close, decides to campaign himself but is almost killed by the Forelli Family in an ambush, but is rescued by Cipriani, who later attempts to rig the election.

Love later discovers that O'Donovan has evidence linking him with the Leone Family and sends Toni to destroy the evidence. The links between Love and the Leone Family, however, are too obvious and the election is won by O'Donovan. Love, having spent all his money on his campaign, is forced to move to a flophouse in Pike Creek, Shoreside Vale. Love, however, does not give up and later employs Cipriani to kill former mentor Avery Carrington to steal his re-development plans for Fort Staunton, killing many Colombian Cartel escorts as well, before killing Liberty Tree reporter Ned Burner, who had witnessed the murder. Cipriani later collects the corpses of both Carrington and Burner for Love to eat.

Donald Love also hires Cipriani to destroy the Fort Staunton district of Staunton Island, a Forelli strong hold, which he does, using explosives provided by 8-Ball. Love, confident of his future success, purchases a mansion in Cedar Grove and locks himself away, fearing a reprisal from the Colombian Cartel, who attempt to kill him but they are thwarted by Cipriani, who takes him to his private jet at Francis International Airport, where the bodies of Carrington and Burner are in storage. By 2001, the same mansion is taken over by the Cartel, while Donald Love seeks to live in the Love Media tower to avoid certain taxes.

Life until October 2001

Donald Love flies to an unconfirmed location in the United States and continues to expand his business, also living on a yacht in the Caribbean. He is known to have changed laws, been involved in slum clearance and opened casinos across the United States, in the process becoming a "legend" according to a Liberty Tree report. He returns to the city in March 2001, following the return of fellow businessman and rival Barry Harcross, and begins to expand his business empire in the city. He re-establishes Love Media and purchases over nine hundred radio stations (including Chatterbox FM, Double Clef FM, Flashback 95.6, and Head Radio), three hundred television stations, four networks, three satellites, ten senators, the Liberty Tree newspaper, the Bitch'n' Dog Food company, and the thirty-story Love Media Building in Bedford Point. He also hires an Old Oriental Gentleman to teach him Tai Chi, sending a private plane to bring him to the city, although the man is arrested by the immigration chief Ray Mathers. At some point between 1998 and 2001, Love begins to implant his plans redevelop Fort Staunton with the Colombian Cartel and their front company, Panlantic Construction, suggesting he had paid the Cartel off.

October 2001

Donald Love continues to oversee the development of Fort Staunton and run his media conglomerate from his home in Bedford Point, although his old oriental gentleman is kidnapped by the Cartel whilst he was being transferred to a police station in Portland View, Portland. He later hires Claude, who also escaped in the ambushed convoy, to rescue the old oriental gentleman from a Cartel hide out in Aspatria, before having him kill Yakuza co-leader Kenji Kasen, whilst disguised as a Cartel gangster, in order to provoke a gang war between the two to drive down property prices. Claude is then sent to collect decoy packages before being sent to collect the real package, eventually going to a construction site in Fort Staunton where he finds ex-girlfriend and Cartel leader Catalina, with Miguel and the package. He retrieves the package for Love and works for him one last time, acting as a decoy to allow the old oriental gentleman to escape with the package. Love later disappears with the old oriental gentleman, with Rockstar Games stating themselves that Love's fate is ambiguous.

Personality

Donald Love is a cannibal, as seen during the mission Cam Pain, where he eats human ribs and describes human flesh as being "like chicken" but "more sentient". He is also known to throw morgue parties, as revealed in both GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, even having Toni Cipriani steal the corpses of Avery Carrington and Ned Burner to eat.

In GTA Liberty City Stories, he is much more flamboyant, and still looks to be very young. Only 3 years later, in GTA III, he has a much deeper, more mature voice, puts on some weight and appears to be more towards his forties.

Trivia

  • One of Donald Love's lines in GTA III is almost exactly replicated in GTA Vice City by his mentor Avery Carrington, although the events occur the other way around in the game universe. Love states, during the mission Waka-Gashira Wipeout, that "Nothing drives down real estate prices like a good old fashioned gang war, apart from the outbreak of a plague, but that might going too far in this case". While during the mission Two Bit Hit in GTA Vice City, Avery Carrington states "Now, nothing brings down real estate prices quicker than a good old-fashioned gang war - 'cept maybe a disaster, like a biblical plague or something, but, that may be going too far in this case".
  • Donald's character may have crossed over from the third to fourth eras, some newspapers in Grand Theft Auto IV carry images of Donald Love stating he has a hate relationship with taxes. There is also a movie/book that can be found in Playboy X's mansion, it is titled The Liberty King, and features Donald Love's artwork on the cover with the skyline of Liberty City behind him.
  • He may be partially based on Michael Bloomberg, who was one of the ten wealthiest men in the world with $5 billion in 2001. Both men also invested in becoming the mayors of their cities.
  • Love was rumored have been killed in Love Hurts, a mission where Claude would steal a Dodo to crash it into the Love Media Building and kill Love. This mission was supposedly deleted following the similar 9/11 attacks on New York City. However, in 2012, Rockstar revealed that this mission did not ever exist.
  • Love, along with Alex Shrub and Thomas Stubbs, were nominated for Rockstar's Sleaziest Politicians.
  • Despite Love's past rivalry with Mayor O'Donovan, he was noted to have met him on at least one occasion in September 2001, and even commented positively about O'Donovan in the Liberty Tree newspaper.
  • Donald Love has a star in the Vinewood Walk of Fame.

Mission appearances

GTA III
GTA Vice City
GTA Liberty City Stories

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