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'''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.

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

*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".

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]]

MorguePartyResurrection-GTALCS.jpg|Donald Love and Toni Cipriani about to steal [[Avery Carrington|Avery Carrington's corpse]] in [[Morgue Party Resurrection]]