Joey Leone

''"Joey" redirects here. For other uses, see Joey (GTA III) or Joey (Eris).''

"Chunky Lee Chong is pushing SPANK for some new gang from Colombia or Colorado or something. I'm not really sure. Who needs details?"

- Joey Leone

Joseph "Joey" Leone is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a main character in Grand Theft Auto III (set in 2001). He is also mentioned in The Introduction (set in 1992), a prequel to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, during the cutscene of Salvatore Leone's mission Freefall, and in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. He is the son of the Don of the Leone Family the most powerful family in Liberty City. He also owns his own business, Joey's Garage. He is voiced by Michael Rapaport, who has starred in such television programs as Prison Break and Boston Public and is also best known for voicing Troy Bradshaw in the famous sandbox game series, Saints Row.

Life up to 2001
Joey Leone was born in Liberty City and grew up around his father, who in the late 1980s became the Don of the Leone Family. He, however, had no ambitions of becoming a made man in the family, deciding to concentrate on small time crime, although he does attend important family meetings along with Caporegime Antonio Cipriani and made man Luigi Goterelli. In between 1987 and 1992 he employed Carl Johnson to steal cars for his garage, which he had established in the Trenton district of Portland, Liberty City. He eventually loses the services of Johnson who returns to Los Santos for the funeral of his mother, although he continues with his work as a mechanic. His business continues to be successful throughout the 1990s, appearing again in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, set in 1998. His father, however, does not appear to be pleased with Joey, claiming in 1998 that Joey wasn't as involved in the family, and Toni Cipriani, Capo of the Leone Family, was more like a son.

2001
In 2001 he is introduced to Claude who drives his favourite prostitute, Misty, to his garage from Luigi's Sex Club 7. Joey then begins to employ Claude, initially having him murder Mike Forelli, a prominent member of the rival Forelli Family, and "Chunky" Lee Chong, a Triad selling the drug SPANK through a noodle stand. Joey continues to employ Claude, having him steal a Securicar, chauffeur Leone Family Capo Toni Cipriani, dispose of the body of a deceased Forelli Family mobster and act as a getaway driver in a bank heist. Joey meets Claude again when Claude drives Joey, Toni and Luigi to Salvatore Leone's mansion. Joey also has a long standing rivalry with the Forelli Family, having reportedly killed a number of the Forelli mobsters.

Claude continues to work with the Leone Family until a paranoid Salvatore decides to try and kill Claude, resulting in Claude and Maria Latore fleeing to Staunton Island. Claude was then tasked with killing Salvatore by Asuka Kasen, co-leader of the Yakuza, who was looking to employ Claude. Claude carried out his orders, killing Joey's father.

Trivia

 * A Joey look-a-like makes a minor appearance in Grand Theft Auto Advance in the mission Down The River given by Asuka Kasen to the protagonist Mike, who needs to kidnap the mafia's members and traffic them to Asia to be sold as slaves.
 * Early concept art from the Rockstar North website label Joey as "Joey Sorvino", which may have been an early name for the Leone Family.
 * The only time Joey and his father are seen interacting in person is the mission Salvatore's Called a Meeting, where Salvatore berates him for not yet finding a wife.
 * In some PS2 versions of Salvatore's Called a Meeting, Joey wears his garage coveralls when meeting Salvatore, while in the PC version he wears a black Leone suit.
 * Joey Leone (along with Salvatore Leone, Luigi Goterelli, Maria Latore, 8-Ball, and Toni Cipriani, in that order) appears on posters for the film Badfellas in GTA III, which is a reference to the film Goodfellas.
 * It is possible that Joey is based on Michael Corleone from The Godfather, as neither of them are particularly interested in family business, but are forced to partake in it. One can also draw similarities between Joey and Little Carmine from The Sopranos, as both characters don't seem to have a desire to become boss of their respective crime families, are involved with their own businesses and are not regarded as son material by their own fathers (Salvatore Leone thinks that Toni Cipriani is more a son that Joey is, and Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. would rather call Tony Soprano his son).

Mission Appearances

 * GTA III
 * Drive Misty For Me
 * Mike Lips Last Lunch (Boss)
 * Farewell "Chunky" Lee Chong (Boss)
 * Van Heist (Boss)
 * Cipriani's Chauffeur (Boss)
 * Dead Skunk in the Trunk (Boss)
 * The Getaway (Boss)
 * Salvatore's Called A Meeting

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