Luigi Goterelli

Background

Luigi Goterelli is a Leone family associate and the owner of Luigi's Sex Club 7 in the Red Light District of Portland. He runs the club and the girls who work from it, and he is one of the first mobsters to give Claude work in Grand Theft Auto III. His bodyguard Mickey Hamfists is usually by his side.

Events of GTA III

8-Ball introduces Claude to Luigi in Luigi's Girls. Luigi tests the new arrival with a simple job, picking up Misty from the clinic, and keeps him on when Claude delivers.

Luigi's missions are all about protecting his business. In Don't Spank Ma Bitch Up he sends Claude to beat a SPANK dealer who has been selling to his girls and to bring back the dealer's car after a respray. In Drive Misty For Me he has Claude drive Misty to Joey Leone's garage, which introduces Claude to Joey. In Pump-Action Pimp he orders the killing of a Diablos pimp running girls on his turf, and in The Fuzz Ball he asks Claude to deliver as many girls as possible to a police party before time runs out.

Luigi stays loyal to the Leones when Claude breaks with them. In Salvatore's Called a Meeting, Claude picks Luigi up from the club and drives him with Joey and Toni to Salvatore's mansion through a Triad ambush. Later, in Sayonara Salvatore, Claude kills the don as he leaves Luigi's club. After that, Luigi's men are hostile to Claude.

Curly Bob, the bartender exposed as a Cartel informer in Cutting the Grass, works at Luigi's club.

Personality

Luigi is brash, crude and money-minded, with a strong sense of his own importance. He is protective of his business and his girls, but mostly because they make him money. He is loyal to the Leone hierarchy and respectful toward Salvatore.

Luigi likes to present himself as a connected businessman, and he values discretion and loyalty.

Relationships

• 8-Ball: his friend, who brings Claude to him.
• Mickey Hamfists: his bodyguard.
• Misty: one of his girls.
• Salvatore Leone: his don, whom he respects.
• Claude: a useful worker until Claude turns on the Leones.

Trivia

• Luigi is voiced by Joe Pantoliano.
• His club, Luigi's Sex Club 7, is the hub of Claude's first missions in Portland.

• Luigi's missions are the first in the game and act as a tutorial for driving, fighting and the Pay 'n' Spray.