| CHARACTER Donald Love |
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| Appearance(s): | Grand Theft Auto III Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories |
| Full name: | Donald Love |
| Also known as: | D.L. |
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Male |
| Place of birth: | United States |
| Home: | Vice City Bedford Point, Staunton Island, Liberty City Pike Creek, Shoreside Vale, Liberty City |
| Nationality: | American |
| Affiliations: | Avery Carrington Salvatore Leone Toni Cipriani Humphries 8-Ball Colombian Cartel Love Media Panlantic Construction Company Old Oriental Gentleman Claude |
| Vehicle(s): | Stretch |
| Businesses: | Construction Real Estate 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) |
Donald Love is a recurring character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears 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 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.
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Donald Love was born and raised in the United States and, at some point, moved to Vice City. 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' parties and once met Tommy Vercetti, who Avery was hiring to 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 and established himself as a successful businessman, starting the Love Media company, purchasing a building in Bedford Point and opening an import garage.
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 stealing 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 destroying the printing factory. Love, realising 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.
Donald Love flies to an unconfirmed location in the United States and continues to expand his business. 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, suggesting he had paid the Cartel off.
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 Island. 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. [1]
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.
 Concept artwork of Donald Love for Grand Theft Auto III |
 Donald Love in The Party in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City |
 Donald Love in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories |
 Donald Love and Toni Cipriani during Love and Bullets |
 Donald Love and Toni Cipriani about to steal Avery Carrington's corpse in Morgue Party Resurrection |
 Love Media logo |
| Claude • 8-Ball • Catalina • Toni Cipriani • Luigi Goterelli • Asuka Kasen • Kenji Kasen • Maria Latore • Joey Leone • Salvatore Leone • Donald Love • Ray Machowski • Miguel |
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Curly Bob •• El Burro •• Carl •• Phil Cassidy •• Chico •• Ma Cipriani •• King Courtney •• D-Ice •• Lee Chong •• Marty Chonks •• Mrs. Chonks •• Mickey Hamfists •• Kanbu •• Leon McAffrey •• Misty •• Old Oriental Gentleman •• Tanner |
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Andee • Andre the Accelerator • Stretch Armstrong • MC Codebreaker • Michael Hunt • Lazlow • Morgan Merryweather • Lord Sear • DJ Timecode • Toni • Horace Walsh |
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Characters in GTA III • Category:Characters in GTA III • Grand Theft Auto III • Category:Characters |
| Toni Cipriani • Ned Burner • Vincenzo Cilli • Ma Cipriani • Toshiko Kasen • Maria Latore • Salvatore Leone • Donald Love • Leon McAffrey • Joseph Daniel "JD" O'Toole • Massimo Torini |
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8-Ball •• Black Lightman •• Avery Carrington •• Giovanni Casa •• Phil Cassidy •• Cheryl •• DB-P •• Franco Forelli •• Cedric Fotheringay •• Mickey Hamfists •• Roger C. Hole •• Jane Hopper •• Humphries •• Jimmy •• Kazuki Kasen •• Uncle Leone •• Mona Lott •• Ray Machowski •• Miguel •• Miles O'Donovan •• Raven •• Rudyard •• Paulie Sindacco •• Dan Sucho •• Faith W. Andee • Bill • Nurse Bob • Sergio Boccino • Melissa Chowder • DJ Clue • MC Codebreaker • Richard Goblin • Michael Hunt • Cliff Lane • Lazlow • Boy Sanchez • DJ Timecode • Natalie Walsh Davis • Reni Wassulmaier Characters in GTA Liberty City Stories • Category:Characters in GTA Liberty City Stories • Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories • Category:Characters |
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