Ken Rosenberg

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Ken Rosenberg
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Appearances	GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas
Full Name	Ken Rosenberg
Aliases	Rosie
Status	Alive
Place of Birth	Vice City
Nationality	American
Home	Washington Beach, Vice City Caligula's Palace, Las Venturas Los Santos
Main Affiliations	Vice News Network (1984 - ?) Forelli Family (? - 1986) Tommy Vercetti (1986 - ?) Colonel Juan Cortez Avery Carrington Kent Paul Carl Johnson (1992 - ?) Maccer (1992 - ?) Leone Family (1992) Sindacco Family Tony (1992) Madd Dogg (1992 - ?)
Vehicles	White Admiral
Businesses	K. Rosenberg & Co. Caligula's Palace
Occupation	Lawyer (formerly) Casino Manager (1992)
Voiced by	William Fichtner (also credited as Bill Fichtner)
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Tommy, if I have a disagreement with someone, I mail them an angry letter; maybe I pee in their mailbox. I don't start World War III.

Ken talking to Tommy Vercetti

Ken "Rosie" Rosenberg is a character in the 3D Universe who appears as a main character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and as a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He is also mentioned in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. He is a lawyer in GTA Vice City but by GTA San Andreas had been disbarred and began running Caligula's Palace. He is voiced by William Fichtner, also credited as Bill Fitchner, who has starred in, amongst other things, the film Empire Falls.

Character history

1980s

Rosie successfully trained as a lawyer, although he is suspected of cheating on his exams, and established his own business, K. Rosenberg & Co., establishing the business in Vice City, the city of his birth, with the company's office being inside the Hotel Harrison in Washington Beach. By 1984 his company has begun to represent the Vice News Network legally, with the company advising people, through a VNN news report, to quote the second amendment of the American constitution if they are prosecuted for illegally using a firearm, after open gun fights in the Downtown district (seen during the mission Nice Package). By 1986 he has also established ties with the Liberty City based Forelli Family, an Italian-American mob, and has begun to represent them legally.

In 1986 he helps Sonny Forelli, the Don of the Family, in establishing his family in Vice City by setting up a drug deal between the Vance Crime Family's Victor and Lance Vance and Forelli Family representatives Tommy Vercetti, Harry and Lee. The deal was ambushed but Rosie and Vercetti escaped, with Rosie hiding in his office, even missing Colonel Juan Cortez' yacht party, instead sending Vercetti to meet the man who set up the deal and later to find out who ambushed the deal. Rosie had, before the ambushed drugs deal, been representing Giorgio Forelli, who was facing charges of fraud, and sent Vercetti to intimidate two jurors. He had also begun representing real estate mogul Avery Carrington, who Vercetti later began to work for after causing a riot at the Spand Express depot.

Vercetti eventually stops working for Rosie, who begins to represent him and bailing him from Vice City Police Department police stations across the city, with Rosie later attempting to give Vercetti advice about earning more money and about a planned bank heist. He later sides with Vercetti when Sonny Forelli arrives in Vice City and, along with Lance Vance, a former ally of Vercetti, attempts to take over Vercetti's business empire. The two become close friends, although Rosie's cocaine addiction later drives a wedge between the two.

1990s

Ken Rosenberg in 1992.

Vercetti and Rosie continue to drift apart in the early 1990s, with Rosie eventually enterting rehabilitation at the Fort Carson Medical Center in Fort Carson, San Andreas. His rehabilitation is successful but his friendship with Vercetti is ended, with Vercetti refusing to answer his calls, whilst he is also disbarred from the law. Rosie, however, immediately falls into the clutches of Liberty City's three mafia families, the Forelli Family, Leone Family and the Sindacco Family, who have him run Caligula's Palace, a mafia run casino in Las Venturas, with all three families having a stake in the casino.

Rosie is informed by Salvatore Leone, Don of the Leone Family, that he wants his money back quickly, whilst he expectantly waits for one family to kill him and blame one of the other families. Rosie begins to hide in his office once again, with only Tony, a talking parrot, for company. Record producer Kent "Pablo" Paul and his client, singer and musician, Maccer, later find Rosie and introduce him to protagonist Carl "CJ" Johnson, who begins to moor Rosie out of his situation, including saving Johnny Sindacco on his way to the hospital and later accidentally killing him, after Carl induces a heart attack after Johnny remembers their previous encounter.

Carl later works for both Rosie and Salvatore to kill more Sindacco and Forelli Family mobsters, both in San Andreas and Liberty City. Eventually, Carl helps Rosie, as well as the by now trapped Paul and Maccer, escape from Salvatore, telling them to lie low. Rosie, who began to use cocaine, also seemingly has flashbacks in reference to Vercetti. Rosie and Paul later begin to work for rehabilitating rapper Madd Dogg, who is being managed by Carl. He, Paul, Maccer and Madd Dogg later appear in the Johnson House in Grove Street, Ganton, Los Santos, to announce Carl and Madd Dogg's first gold record.

Nothing after the events of GTA San Andreas can be confirmed, although some fans believe that in GTA Liberty City Stories he calls into The Electron Zone on Liberty City Free Radio, from Carcer City, to complaining about being arrested by the FBI for looking up pictures on the Internet (the pictures are implied to be child pornography). The caller is named Ken, although no surname is given, and the caller sounds nothing like Rosie.

Development

Rosie is voiced by William Fichtner, also credited as Bill Fitchner, and is based on David Kleinfeld, played by Sean Penn, from Carlito's Way. The two characters are Jewish defense attorneys, have a similar appearance and both are rendered increasingly paranoid and incoherent due to their cocaine addictions. The offices of both characters are also almost identical.

Mission appearances

Artwork of Ken Rosenberg

GTA Vice City

• In The Beginning
• The Party (Boss)
• Back Alley Brawl (Boss)
• Jury Fury (Boss)
• Riot (Boss)
• Shakedown
• No Escape?
• The Shootist
• The Driver
• The Job
• Keep Your Friends Close...

GTA San Andreas

• The Introduction
• Don Peyote
• Intensive Care (Boss)
• The Meat Business (Boss)
• Freefall (Pre-mission Phone Call)
• Saint Mark's Bistro (Pre-mission Phone Call)
• End of the Line

VCBI record

Ken Rosenberg has a file in the Vice City Bureau of Investigation.:

• Partner at Rosenberg & Associates, legal firm.
• Suspected problem with narcotics and egomania.
• Believed to be developing contacts with Liberty City mob
• Suspected of cheating in law school exams.
• Believed to have employed heavies on numerous occasions to intimidate and corrupt juries.
• Very poor success rate in trials.
• "Blue chip" clients include Georgio Forelli. Cousin of Liberty City crime boss, Sonny.
• Always desperate for money.

Trivia

• The player can play as Ken in GTA Vice City by inputting cheats.

PS2:

PC: mysonisalawyer

Xbox:

• Ken is the only character to appear in the final cutscene in more than one game, appearing in the final cutscene of GTA Vice City (Keep Your Friends Close...) and GTA San Andreas (End of the Line).
• Ken is one of only six non-playable living characters to be present for the death of a protagonist. The others being Diaz' Hitmen, Ron Jakowski, and Wade Hebert.