Kent Paul

Background

Kent Paul is a fast-talking, self-important Englishman from Kent who first appeared in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. By 1992 he is managing a rock band, the Gurning Chimps, fronted by Maccer, and touring the United States with them.

In Vice City, set in 1986, Paul was a hanger-on in the music scene who knew Ken Rosenberg and managed the rock band Love Fist. He claims to know everyone and to be involved in every big deal, but most of it is talk.

Events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Paul enters the story in Don Peyote. After a peyote-fuelled trip in the desert with The Truth, the Gurning Chimps disappear, and CJ finds Paul and Maccer in trouble with local snake farmers. CJ rescues them, but the rest of the band is never found, a loss Paul shrugs off.

Paul and Maccer then end up in Las Venturas, where they fall in with Ken Rosenberg at Caligula's Palace. Paul is one of the people who help CJ's music business after Madd Dogg's recovery, and he and Maccer join the team around Madd Dogg's comeback.

When CJ drives him and Maccer down from Arco del Oeste, Paul suggests going to Caligula's Palace, where his old friend Rosenberg works. In Intensive Care he is the one who persuades a panicking Rosenberg to tell CJ his troubles. In Vertical Bird he is in Madd Dogg's studio with Maccer when Toreno interrupts the session.

Personality

Paul is boastful, cowardly and pompous, constantly claiming to be a criminal mastermind or music-industry insider. He talks his way into trouble far more often than out of it.

He is loyal to his friends in his own way, but he is also easily frightened and quick to abandon people when things go wrong.

Relationships

He manages Maccer, knows Ken Rosenberg from Vice City, and becomes a hanger-on in CJ's circle of friends.

Paul is one of the links between Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and San Andreas, along with Rosenberg, Dwaine and Jethro.

Trivia

• Paul is voiced by Danny Dyer, as in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
• He is one of several characters from earlier games who reappear in San Andreas.
• He describes the drummers and keyboard players lost in the desert as easy to replace, showing little concern for his missing band members.
• His voice actor, Danny Dyer, is a well-known English film and television actor.