Wild secrets of Ibiza’s Pikes Hotel where coke was served on cornflakes & owner bedded 3,000 women…including Bond star

It's the chaotic edifice that helped cement vocalist George Michael's stardom, wherever cocaine was allegedly sprinkled connected guests' cornflakes, and whose proprietor was dubbed the ‘real Hugh Heffner’ by Boy George.

Pikes Hotel, the Balearic Island getaway acceptable up by British-born Australian Anthony 'Tony' Pike successful 1978, is acceptable to beryllium featured successful a caller movie by Football Factory fable Tamer Hassan, and volition radiance a airy connected the hedonistic residence.

As revealed by The Sun this week, the caller task will absorption connected the outrageous goings-on astatine Pikes Hotel during the Eighties and Nineties.

Run by Tony, who passed distant successful 2019 aft suffering from prostate and skin cancer, the edifice remains a jewel successful Ibiza’s crown and its colourful past is arsenic shocking present arsenic it was decades ago.

Pikes Hotel, which is present known arsenic Pikes Ibiza, besides boasts what the Guinness Book of Records says is the "world's biggest nightclub", and was a blistery favourite with the likes of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Hollywood prima Tony Curtis, party-mad exemplary Kate Moss, manner icon Grace Jones and present modern celebrities specified arsenic Jade Jagger.

The club, presently branded UNVRS earlier its erstwhile incarnations arsenic Ku Club and Privilege Ibiza, and its flamboyant proprietor archetypal roseate to prominence erstwhile the newest darlings of British pop, Wham!, rolled into municipality to movie their 1983 deed Club Tropicana.

Wham! co-founder George Michael got connected truthful good with Tony that the edifice proprietor was persuaded to instrumentality a tiny relation successful the video, appearing arsenic a straw-hated barman during 1 excavation scene.

Tony would aboriginal boast of bedding Michael the nighttime earlier shooting the video, revealing successful his 2017 memoir Mr Pikes: The Story Behind The Ibiza Legend that the brace made "tender and passionate" love, leaving the proprietor "surprised... due to the fact that I'm not gay".

He recalled: “He was specified a good-looking c***.

"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.”

Cementing however adjacent the brace were, Tony was 1 of the archetypal radical the singer, who passed distant successful 2016, came retired to.

Three time party

The video's success, which would assistance Club Tropicana scope fig 4 successful the UK charts, enactment Pikes Hotel firmly astatine the centre of the amusement manufacture and soon the world's astir recognisable faces descended connected the Ibiza resort.

Among the astir mind-bending parties crossed the decades included Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's, who marked his 41st day astatine Pikes Hotel - and wherever the guestlist was arsenic striking arsenic the barroom bill.

The party, which was held conscionable aft Freddie's AIDs diagnosis successful 1987, saw 700 of entertainment's biggest names articulation the celebrations, with Bon Jovi, Tony Curtis, Naomi Campbell and Spandau Ballet marking the milestone.

But the glamour didn't halt there.

According to a People mag study successful 1996, for 3 days, engaged unit inflated thousands of golden and achromatic helium balloons successful mentation for the party.

During the bash, 350 bottles of lavish champagne was sunk by guests, a firework show truthful large it could beryllium seen from the neighbouring land of Majorca 160 miles distant was witnessed and the festivities were topped disconnected with a two-metre agelong sponge barroom with the notes of Mercury's opus Barcelona connected it - aft the archetypal godforsaken successful the signifier of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Cathedral collapsed.

In the aftermath of the three-day spectacle, carnage ensued arsenic the beforehand of the edifice caught occurrence and a partition collapsed.

Within the chaos, Tony erstwhile recovered himself playing tennis with "Freddie, Kenny Everett and the president of Colchester United", helium recalled during an interrogation with Shortlist successful 2017.

Tony said "money was nary object" for Freddie and that vocalist "sought sanctuary successful the edifice and wanted a enactment to remember".

The edifice proprietor 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."

Following the party, a measure - which included a receipt for 232 breached glasses - was presented to Queen's manager, Jim Beach.

Spoonfuls of cocaine

Tony's relationship with Freddie would endure and the vocalist would often summon the edifice proprietor to his room, debating the meaning of beingness arsenic spoonfuls of cocaine were lined up connected the hotel's laminated menus to beryllium consumed.

Tony recalled: "We would often prevarication successful furniture for hours, talking, doing lines. 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?’"

Addiction plagued Tony's ownership of the edifice and much and much chaotic claims would surface, including however cocaine was served up connected guests' meal cereal - though Tony would aboriginal say: "Coke connected cornflakes? What a waste."

Sex was besides a immense portion of Pikes Hotel life, and Tony would much than regularly indulge with guests.

Tony, who was joined 5 times and had 4 children, erstwhile reflected however helium was a "sex addict... I afloat admit it. And I’d alternatively beryllium a enactment addict than a cause addict oregon a f***ing drunk".

Despite claiming to person bedded much than 3,000 women, determination was 1 who stood retired -  exemplary and Eighties pin-up Grace Jones.

Grace, who became a household sanction during the decennary by appearing successful the 1895 James Bond movie A View to a Kill, had a 15-month fling with Tony aft gathering astatine an orgy.

He remembered: "It was full darkness. 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 light . . . bodies were everyplace connected the floor.”

Their narration did not commencement disconnected connected the champion footing though, arsenic Tony's furious woman astatine the clip chased Grace astir the excavation with a carving weapon portion helium continued to service meal to guests.

Tony would picture having the champion enactment helium ever had with Grace, remembering however "she had this happening that she indispensable person enactment conscionable earlier she went connected stage.”

He said successful his memoir: “Grace Jones was 1 pugnacious cookie, but besides could beryllium fantastic and entertaining and warm."

He added: "We’d locomotion successful determination and the full spot would halt and conscionable look astatine her. She had specified an unthinkable allure.”

Meanwhile Grace would constitute successful her 2015 autobiography I'll Never Write My Memoirs that Tony "did person an tremendous penis and I was blessed to instrumentality attraction of it".

Their enslaved would stay beardown and was underscored erstwhile Grace rejected Academy Award-winning manager Roman Polanski's advances aft helium had asked Tony to "fix him up" with her.

Tony added: "I said I was her lover. He said, ‘But I’m famous!’ But she chose me. She was wonderful, she had an aura similar a rainbow.”

Celebrity saviour

As Pikes Hotel's estimation continued to skyrocket, its beingness became much of a interest for the section authorities.

Fearing a fallout with the police, Tony turned to a astonishing state who helped thaw the hostility - Julio Iglesias.

The star, who has sold much than 150 cardinal records crossed the globe, told Tony to invitation the section constabulary main to the edifice and permission the remainder to him.

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.”

Soon Ibiza commercialised and successful the Noughties the Ku Club added a extortion and became Privilege, hosting the likes of Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, and Roger Sanchez.

Despite being successful his sixties, Tony continued to unrecorded it up - from warring implicit a miss with Mike Oldfield, being connected a vessel with Kylie Minogue and sharing a ablution with Brigitte Nielsen.

At its peak, Tony would grip the unit by dipping successful and retired of his guests' benders, earlier rising aboriginal and throwing himself instantly into the pool.

He told Shortlist successful 2017: "There were times erstwhile I was connected different planet... but you tin fell thing down sunglasses.”

Since the precocious Nineties, Tony had been looking to merchantability the edifice and had provisionally agreed to merchantability it to Italian TV shaper Enrico Forti, but the pact would extremity successful heartbreak.

Tony's lad Anthony flew to Miami with Forti arsenic his begetter was incapable to question aft being diagnosed with AIDS-related dementia.

Anthony was killed connected February 15, 1998, erstwhile helium suffered 2 shots to the caput and was dumped successful a secluded wood astatine Virginia Key beach.

In June 2000, Forti was convicted of murdering Anthony and, though successful Italy the verdict was seen arsenic a miscarriage of justness owed to deficiency of valid motive, helium remains serving a beingness situation condemnation astatine the Everglades Correctional Institution successful Florida.

However, by 2008, Ibiza Rocks purchased the edifice and was relaunched 3 years aboriginal nether the mantra: "After enactment and drugs, comes stone and roll."

Tony became the hotel's archetypal full-time nonmigratory successful 2011, sharing the edifice with the likes of Liam Gallagher, Mark Ronson and Ed Sheeran, and lived successful country 25 permanently until his decease astatine the property of 85.