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{{infobox character|
|name        = Ken Rosenberg
|image = KenRosenberg-GTAVC.jpg
|image       = KenRosenbergGTAVC.jpg
|game_1 = GTA Vice City
|games        = [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]
|game_2 = GTA San Andreas
|aka         = Rosie
|name = Ken Rosenberg
|gender       = M
|aka = Rosie
|pob         = [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]]
|gender =
|home         = [[Vinewood]], [[Los Santos]]
|status = Alive
|nationality = [[United States of America|American]]
|dob =
|affiliations = [[Tommy Vercetti]]<br>[[Forelli Family]]<br>[[Leone Family]]<br>[[Carl Johnson]]<br>[[Madd Dogg]]<br>[[Kent Paul]]
|pob = [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]]
|vehicles     = White [[Admiral]]
|dod =
|voice       = [[William Fichtner]]
|home = [[Washington Beach]], Vice City<br />[[Caligula's Palace]], [[Las Venturas]]<br />[[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]]
|nationality = United States
|family =
|affiliations = [[VNN|Vice News Network]] <small>(1984 - ?)</small><br />[[Forelli Family]] <small>(? - 1986) </small><br />[[Tommy Vercetti]] <small>(1986 - ?)</small><br />[[Juan Cortez|Colonel Juan Cortez]]<br />[[Avery Carrington]]<br />[[Kent Paul]]<br />[[Carl Johnson]] <small>(1992 - ?)</small><br />[[Maccer]] <small>(1992 - ?)</small><br />[[Leone Family]] <small>(1992)</small><br />[[Sindacco Family]]<br />[[Tony]] <small>(1992)</small> <br />[[Madd Dogg]] <small>(1992 - ?)</small>
|vehicles = White [[Admiral]]
|businesses = [[K. Rosenberg & Co.]] <br /> [[Caligula's Palace]]
|occupation = Lawyer <small>(formerly)</small> <br />Casino Manager <small>(1992)</small>
|voice = [[William Fichtner]]<br />(also credited as Bill Fichtner)
}}
}}


'''Ken Rosenberg''' in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]], is an attorney with connections to the [[Forelli Family]]. [[Tommy Vercetti]] meets him at [[Escobar International Airport]], and throughout the game they remain allies. He secures Tommy's release from prison whenever he is arrested, and his voice is sometimes briefly heard in these situations ("Tommy Vercetti is an innocent man!"). He is also suspected of cheating on law school exams and having employed heavies on numerous occasions to intimidate and corrupt juries. He is portrayed in a similar manner as David Kleinfeld in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106519/ Carlito's Way]; a lawyer with frizzy hair and bad suits, rendered increasingly paranoid and incoherent by a severe cocaine addiction. Rosenberg is voiced by William Fichtner.
{{quote|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''.


In [[The Introduction]] in 1992, it's revealed that Ken was disbarred from practicing law, went into rehab, and once he was released, Tommy stopped taking his calls, because Tommy didn't trust a coke head as his accountant and lawyer. At this point he was recruited by [[Salvatore Leone]] to be a "neutral" third-party manager of investments in the new casino co-owned by the [[Leone Family]], the [[Sindacco Family]], and the [[Forelli Family]].
==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 in GTA III Era|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 [[VNN|Vice News Network]] legally, with the company advising people, through a VNN news report, to quote the second amendment of the [[United States|American]] constitution if they are prosecuted for illegally using a firearm, after open gun fights in the [[Downtown Vice City|Downtown]] district (seen during the mission [[Nice Package]]). By [[1986]] he has also established ties with the [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] based [[Forelli Family]], an Italian-American mob, and has begun to represent them legally.


In [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] in 1992, Ken is managing [[Caligula's Palace]] in [[Las Venturas]] for the three families. He is in constant fear for his life at the hands of one of the families, so that they could blame each other. [[Carl Johnson|CJ]] is introduced to Ken (and his parrot [[Tony]]) by [[Kent Paul]] and [[Maccer]]. Ken wants CJ to find him a way out of his current situation, and back to a "safe, legal job" with a "boring commute." Apparently due to the stressful situation, Ken resumes cocaine use along the way. He provides CJ with a few jobs, both to help him keep his job at the casino and to help him stay alive. After being a part of killing [[Johnny Sindacco]], CJ tells Ken to "play it dumb" until he can fake his death. He resumes a new life, working as an accountant for [[Madd Dogg]], along with Maccer and Kent Paul. In one mision when travelling back from an abbatoir, Ken says to Carl, admist all the action: "Just like old times, hey Tommy?" to which CJ replies, "Who the fuck is Tommy?" This is an obvious reference to Ken's previous boss/partner, Tommy Vercetti.
In 1986 he helps [[Sonny Forelli]], the [[Gang Leaders|Don]] of the Family, in establishing his family in Vice City by setting up a drug deal between the [[Vance Crime Family|Vance Crime Family's]] [[Victor Vance|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 [[Juan Cortez|Colonel Juan Cortez]]' [[The Party|yacht party]], instead sending Vercetti to meet the man who set up the deal and later to [[Back Alley Brawl|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 [[Jury Fury|intimidate]] two jurors. He had also begun representing real estate mogul [[Avery Carrington]], who Vercetti later began to work for after causing a [[Riot (GTA VC)|riot]] at the [[Spand Express]] depot.


In [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] by 1998 a character named Ken, who may be Rosenberg himself (though this is unlikely as the voice in LCS is higher pitched and different) can be heard calling The Electron Zone from [[Carcer City]] complaining about always getting arrested by the [[FBI]] for trying to look up a few "pictures" on the internet.
Vercetti eventually stops working for Rosie, who begins to represent him and bailing him from [[VCPD in GTA III Era|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 [[The Job|bank heist]]. He later sides with Vercetti when Sonny Forelli arrives in Vice City and, along with Lance Vance, a former ally of Vercetti, [[Keep Your Friends Close...|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.


In [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]], Rosenberg is briefly mentioned by [[VNN]] after the completion of [[Nice Package]] for [[Umberto Robina]]. It is stated after the reporter talking about the gun fights that he quotes the second amendment and should face charges.
===1990s===
[[File:KenRosenberg-GTASA.jpg|left|thumb|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 in GTA III Era|San Andreas]]. His rehabilitation is successful but his friendship with Vercetti is ended, with Vercetti [[The Introduction|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.


[[Image:Ken_Rosenberg.jpg|left|thumb|130px|Ken Rosenberg in GTA San Andreas.]]
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 Paul|Kent "Pablo" Paul]] and his client, singer and musician, [[Maccer]], later [[Don Peyote|find]] Rosie and introduce him to protagonist [[Carl Johnson|Carl "CJ" Johnson]], who begins to moor Rosie out of his situation, including [[Intensive Care|saving]] [[Johnny Sindacco]] on his way to the [[Las Venturas Hospital|hospital]] and later accidentally [[The Meat Business|killing]] him, after Carl induces a heart attack after Johnny remembers their [[Fender Ketchup|previous encounter]].
==GTA Vice City Mission Appearances==
 
*[[The Party]] (Boss)
Carl later works for both Rosie and Salvatore to kill more [[The Meat Business|Sindacco]] and Forelli Family mobsters, both in [[Freefall|San Andreas]] and [[Saint Mark's Bistro|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 [[The Meat Business|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 [[End of the Line|appear]] in the [[Johnson House]] in [[Grove Street]], [[Ganton]], [[Los Santos in GTA III Era|Los Santos]], to announce Carl and Madd Dogg's first gold record.
*[[Back Alley Brawl]] (Boss)
 
*[[Jury Fury]] (Boss)
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 [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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.
*[[Riot (GTA VC)|Riot]] (Boss)
 
*[[Shakedown (GTA VC)|Shakedown]]  
==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==
[[File:KenRosenberg-GTAVC-artwork.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Artwork of Ken Rosenberg]]
;GTA Vice City
*[[In The Beginning (GTA VC)|In The Beginning]]
*[[The Party]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Back Alley Brawl]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Jury Fury]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Riot (GTA VC)|Riot]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Shakedown (GTA VC)|Shakedown]]
*[[No Escape?]]
*[[No Escape?]]
*[[The Shootist]]
*[[The Shootist]]
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*[[The Job]]
*[[The Job]]
*[[Keep Your Friends Close...]]
*[[Keep Your Friends Close...]]
[[File:KenRosenbergArtwork.jpg|thumb|200px|Ken Rosenberg Artwork]]


==GTA San Andreas San Andreas Mission Appearances==
;GTA San Andreas
*[[The Introduction]]
*[[Don Peyote]]
*[[Don Peyote]]
*[[Intensive Care]] (Boss)
*[[Intensive Care]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[The Meat Business]] (Boss)
*[[The Meat Business]] <small>'''(Boss)'''</small>
*[[Freefall]] (Semi-Boss)
*[[Freefall]] <small>'''(Pre-mission Phone Call)'''</small>
*[[Saint Mark's Bistro]]
*[[Saint Mark's Bistro]] <small>'''(Pre-mission Phone Call)'''</small>
*[[Vertical Bird]] (Voice)
*[[End of the Line]]
*[[End of the Line]]


{{GTA Vice City Characters}}
== VCBI record ==
{{GTA San Andreas Characters}}
Ken Rosenberg has a file in the [[Vice City Bureau of Investigation]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rockstargames.com/vicecity/ | title = Vice City Crime Tree | work = [[Rockstar Games]] }} official GTA Vice City website</ref>:
* Partner at Rosenberg &amp; 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.
* &quot;Blue chip&quot; 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: {{key|p_right}}{{key|l1}}{{key|p_up}}{{key|l2}}{{key|l1}}{{key|p_right}}{{key|r1}}{{key|l1}}{{key|cross}}{{key|r1}}
: PC: mysonisalawyer
: Xbox: {{key|x_right}}{{key|lt}}{{key|x_up}}{{key|white}}{{key|lt}}{{key|x_right}}{{key|rt}}{{key|lt}}{{key|a}}{{key|rt}}
*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]].
 
== Reference ==
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Latest revision as of 04:30, 12 June 2021

Character
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
GTA San Andreas

VCBI record

Ken Rosenberg has a file in the Vice City Bureau of Investigation.[1]:

  • 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: D-Pad RightL1D-Pad UpL2L1D-Pad RightR1L1CrossR1
PC: mysonisalawyer
Xbox: D-Pad RightLeft TriggerD-Pad UpWhiteLeft TriggerD-Pad RightRight TriggerLeft TriggerARight Trigger

Reference

  1. Vice City Crime Tree. Rockstar Games. official GTA Vice City website