Cocaine, stone stars and Bond girls - these were each the norm astatine a chaotic Ibiza edifice which allegedly served up cocaine on cornflakes and saw its proprietor furniture thousands of women.
Anthony 'Tony' Pike acceptable up Pikes Hotel connected the land successful 1978. It became known for its extravagance, chaotic parties and an array of stars including Freddie Mercury and Kate Moss attending. Now, the hedonistic edifice is acceptable to beryllium the taxable of a caller movie by histrion Tamer Hassan.
The Guinness Book of Records said the Ibiza nighttime nine is the “world’s biggest” and besides attracted the likes of manner model Grace Jones, Jade Jagger and histrion Tony Curtis. The nine has since rebranded arsenic ‘UNVRS’, Tony died from prostate crab successful 2019.
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Getty Images Europe)The nine roseate to fame arsenic British popular radical Wham! filmed their 1983 deed Club Tropicana there. Band vocalist George Michael got connected truthful good with Tony that helium adjacent appeared successful the video arsenic a barman, The Sun reported.
In the 2017 memoir Mr Pikes: The Story Behind The Ibiza Legend, Tony claimed George was “such a good-looking c***” and was “surprised” erstwhile they made “tender and passionate” emotion to each other.
He wrote: "I said to him that helium indispensable propulsion truthful galore women. He told maine helium was gay. ‘What a f***ing waste!’ I exclaimed. George roared with laughter. He'd astir apt heard that 1 a fewer times before, though his sexuality was a closely-guarded concealed astatine that signifier of his career."
It wasn’t the lone communicative of enactment Tony would reveal, describing himself arsenic a “sex addict”. He claimed to person bedded astir 3,000 women including 80s Bond miss Grace Jones aft the brace met astatine an orgy. “It was full darkness,” helium said “All I could perceive was euphony playing and the odor of enactment and marijuana. Big candles had burnt down to springiness a acheronian loom of airy . . . bodies were everyplace connected the floor.”
Tony went connected to accidental that helium had the champion enactment of his beingness with the "entertaining and warm” Grace during their 15-month fling. “We’d locomotion successful determination and the full spot would halt and conscionable look astatine her,” helium said. “She had specified an unthinkable allure.” In 2015, Grace said successful her 2015 autobiography that Tony had an “enormous penis” and she was “happy to instrumentality attraction of it”.
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Getty Images)Parties similar Freddie Mercury’s 41st successful September 1987, not agelong aft the legendary singer’s AIDS diagnosis, pulled successful a scope of mega celebrities who racked up a gigantic barroom bill. Tony Curtis, Naomi Campbell, Spandau Ballet and Bon Jovi each be the lawsuit that a People mag study successful 1996 said saw 350 bottles of champagne drunk, a firework show that could beryllium seen from Majorca and a dessert successful the signifier of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Cathedral.
That dessert collapsed and was replaced with a sponge barroom 2 metre agelong with the notes of Freddie’s opus ‘Barcelona’. The enactment ended aft 3 days erstwhile the beforehand of the edifice caught fire, starring to a partition collapsing. “Money was nary object” for the Queen singer, Tony claimed. He said the stone fable "sought sanctuary successful the edifice and wanted a enactment to remember".
He added: "When I asked him astir the fund helium laughed and said determination was none… We could frost the excavation and person skating elephants if we wanted. He conscionable wanted it to beryllium wild."
Drugs were ne'er excessively acold away, Tony besides claimed. He said helium and Freddie would “often prevarication successful furniture for hours, talking, doing lines”. He added: Freddie’s cocaine intake was disconnected the standard astatine times… I don’t deliberation helium adjacent thought astir however overmuch helium was taking fractional the time. He’d say, ‘Tony, would you caput racking up again, please?’"
The usage of drugs led to claims that cocaine was served up connected cornflakes for guests, but Tony aboriginal said this would person been a “waste”. But the estimation of the edifice grew and soon caught the attraction of the authorities. Spanish singing superstar Julio Iglesias sorted it each out, according to Tony, erstwhile helium invited the section constabulary chief. Tony said: "We were lasting by the excavation barroom adjacent to each different and Julio enactment his arms astir our necks and pulled america unneurotic successful a headlock.
“Julio said, arsenic helium held america successful the aforesaid position, ‘Now, I privation you to beryllium friends. You 2 are precise important radical connected the island. If you fight, it volition beryllium disastrous for Ibiza.’ I was near unsocial aft that, truthful convey you, Julio.”
In the 1990s, Tony looked to merchantability the nine to Italian TV shaper Enrico Forti. Tragedy struck erstwhile Tony’s lad Anthony 'Dale' Pike flew with Forti to Miami. Dale was killed successful February 1998 - helium was dumped successful a wood aft being changeable successful the caput twice. Forti was convicted of Dale's execution - the execution was seen arsenic a miscarriage of justness successful Italy and Forti returned determination past year.