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He calls the FBI.Ĭaifano and Delmonico are arrested and put on trial in Los Angeles. Ryan gets in the car, bolts out of the back seat and runs. Caifano says they're going for a little ride in the desert. Ryan doesn't want to play, though, telling him to go to hell. Drew says Caifano is "OK," so Ryan agrees to meet him at the Desert Inn in Vegas.Ĭaifano's offer to "protect" Ryan from future shakedowns for $60,000 a year - peanuts for a multimillionaire. Ryan phones mutual friend John Drew, who runs the mob-financed Stardust in Las Vegas. They approach Ryan at El Mirador and demand protection money.

His partner is Charles Delmonico, a "roving ambassador" for The Outfit. Marshall Caifano, a stocky, five-foot, five-inch thug suspected of more than 10 slayings, has replaced Johnny Rosselli as Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana's Las Vegas representative. Palm Springs."īut in 1963, a pair of Chicago mobsters get wind of Ryan's pay-off to Dandolos. Ryan is a big man about town, so well-known Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons dubs him "Mr. Kenya Safari Club in Africa - a members-only vacation resort -with actor William Holden and businessman Carl Hirschmann. Ryan continues to prosper in Palm Springs and gets caught up in the city's social whirl, co-chairing charity events like the Desert Circus Ball at El Mirador, Palm Springs' first luxury hotel. Ryan denies cheating, but pays Dandolos $26,000 to pacify him. "I had gamblers in Vegas tell me he was the best gambler ever," longtime Palm Springs Mayor Frank Bogert says years later. Rumor is Ryan had confederates reading hands through binoculars, tipping him off via short-wave.įriends insist Ryan is just too good to resort to cheating. Ryan returns to Palm Springs, where he and a team of investors recently purchased El Mirador Hotel after the government used it as an Italian POW camp during World War II.ĭandolos is told Ryan cheated him in that marathon game in Vegas. When Nick the Greek folds his final hand, he's out $550,000. Ryan, who made millions through his oil company in the '40s, has spent the past week playing Dandolos, five or six hours a day. Its secret owner is Meyer Lansky, financial mastermind of the national crime syndicate.

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It's 1949 and Ryan is playing a private lowball poker game with professional gambler Nicholas "Nick the Greek" Dandolos at the Thunderbird Hotel, an ornate casino on the Las Vegas strip with a giant neon head of an Aztec god at the entrance. 18, 1977, were set in motion nearly three decades before.

The events that led to Ryan's death on Oct. Ryan was from Palm Springs, after all, a known gangster's paradise. The 73-year-old oilman, developer, gambler and philanthropist is blown to pieces. He turns the key in the ignition and a spark sets off a deadly explosion.

Madrazo is a Spanish slang word meaning punch or blow.Ray Ryan climbs into his luxury Mark V Lincoln Continental after a workout at the Olympia Health and Beauty Resort in his wife's hometown of Evansville, Indiana.

Madrazo seems to respect people who respect him back, as seen in the game, he is very loyal to his three friends, and co - protagonists, Harold, Juan, and Tyler. He is also appears to be misogynistic, as he mistreats his wife and has had several affairs with other women. However, unlike typical rich psychopaths who would often prefer to maintain a positive image, he prefers instead to openly and constantly remind people around him of his psychopathic traits, and enjoys making people, even those closest to him, fear him. Despite this, he shows gratitude to Tyler when he paid for the house and despite their rocky beginnings, Madrazo trusted Tyler enough to employ him. Madrazo is often described as a psychopath because of his short temper and his ruthless methods of dealing with people who cross him in any way. Madrazo married his wife Patricia in 1983, and had a son not long after that. Due to his status, he has been summoned to several court cases involving his gang activity, but has not yet been convicted as any witnesses willing to testify were silenced. He is voiced by Alfredo Huereca.Īt some point in his life, Madrazo became the head of the most ruthless Mexican narcotic gangs in the Del Perro area. During the events of the game, he and his family and friends are forced to move to Cayo Perico, launching the story off. The head of his own Mexican-American drug Cartel, Madrazo is a powerful and wealthy legitimate businessman settled in Cayo Perico with his wife, Patricia.

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Martin Madrazo is a character in the Gangster's Paradise series who appears as the main protagonist in Gangster's Paradise V along with Juan Strickler, Tyler Fusco, and Harold Joseph, and a main character in Gangster's Paradise Online. If I didn't, you would be dead, of course."