Kent Paul

Background

Kent Paul is a cocky young Englishman from the county of Kent who hangs around Vice City's music scene. He claims to be a criminal mastermind and a music industry player, but he has no visible job and no criminal record. What he does have is an ear for gossip, which makes him useful. He is usually found at the Malibu Club in Vice Point and acts as a manager and fixer for the Scottish rock band Love Fist.

Kent Paul's life revolves around the Malibu Club, where he is a fixture at the bar, and around Love Fist, whose drinking and partying he manages as best he can.

Events of GTA Vice City

• Kent Paul is a guest at Colonel Cortez's yacht in The Party, drunk and boasting.
• In Back Alley Brawl, Ken Rosenberg sends Tommy Vercetti to the Malibu Club to find Kent Paul, who tips him off about the hitman Leo Teal.
• In Death Row, Kent Paul tells Tommy that Lance Vance tried to kill Ricardo Diaz and is now being held by Diaz's men at the junkyard. Tommy roughs him up for joking about it, then goes to the rescue.
• Kent Paul introduces Tommy to Love Fist in Love Juice and sends him to fetch Mercedes Cortez for the band. He also gets Tommy involved with Mitch Baker's bikers to find security for a concert.
• In Spilling the Beans, Tommy asks him where to find the counterfeiters, and Kent Paul points him to a shipping company boss at Viceport.
• He hangs around the Malibu Club when Tommy assembles his crew for the bank robbery in The Job.

Personality

Kent Paul is boastful, cowardly and a habitual liar who exaggerates every connection he has. Tommy finds him irritating and often threatens him, yet keeps coming back because Kent Paul really does know every rumor in town.

His constant name-dropping and exaggerations make him an easy target for Tommy's temper, and several of their meetings end with Tommy threatening him. Despite this, his information is usually accurate, which is why he keeps turning up at key moments of the story.

He talks in a flood of British slang and boasts, and he panics as soon as real danger appears. Tommy's patience with him is short, yet Kent Paul keeps attaching himself to Tommy's rising fortunes.

Relationships

• Love Fist: the band he manages.
• Tommy Vercetti: a reluctant source of tips.
• Mercedes Cortez: an acquaintance from the party circuit.

Trivia

• Kent Paul is voiced by Danny Dyer.
• He returns in GTA San Andreas, still trying to make it in the music business, alongside the producer Maccer.
• The Malibu Club, where he is usually found, later becomes one of Tommy's businesses.