The Maisonette 9 shootout occurred one afternoon in the spring of 2008 when several Bulgarin crime family hitmen attempted to murder nightclub owner Tony Prince at the Maisonette 9 nightclub in downtown Manhattan, New York City. Prince and his bodyguard Luis Fernando Lopez killed all of the attackers, thwarting the assassination attempt. The club had been closed by the city at the time of the shooting, and all of the victims were members of the Russian Mafia.
Background[]
In the aftermath of the failed hostage exchange between Tony Prince and Niko Bellic at the sewage plant on Randalls and Wards Islands, the Ancelotti crime family and Bulgarin crime family both fell afoul of Prince and his associate, Luis Fernando Lopez. Ray Bulgarin, the boss of the Bulgarin family, had an axe to grind with Lopez after he accused Lopez of stealing his diamonds, while the Ancelottis were angered that Tony Prince had lost the diamonds during the failed hostage exchange, which had been ambushed by the Bulgarin family. Ray Bulgarin and Giovanni Ancelotti met together and decided that the people involved with the diamonds would have to be punished; these people were Tony Prince, Luis Lopez, and Mafia loan sharks Rocco Pelosi and Vince Pelosi. The Pelosis met with Lopez in the restrooms under Central Park and attempted to convince him that they could appease Ancelotti by killing Prince, feeding him one body in order to put the crisis to bed. Lopez headed to the Maisonette 9 club with the Pelosis to kill Prince, but Lopez made a last-minute decision to kill Vince Pelosi instead, sparing his boss. Rocco Pelosi warned Lopez and Prince that the Russians were on their way to the club, expecting bodies there, and Pelosi left shortly before the arrival of the Bulgarin hitmen.
Shootout[]
Lopez shooting at the hitmen outside of the club
Several cars of Bulgarin hitmen arrived outside of the club, and the heavily-armed Bulgarin enforcers entered the club, guns blazing. Lopez and Prince fired on the Russians as they entered the club, and Lopez used several RPG-7 rockets to take out large clusters of Russian mobsters. After all of the attackers inside of the club were dead, Lopez headed outside to confront some more Russians, and they engaged in a firefight. Lopez managed to kill the hitmen as they left four cars and one motorcycle, and all of Bulgarin's hitmen were killed in the ensuing shootout on the street. The shootout left around 30-40 Bulgarin hitmen dead, and Lopez would proceed to hunt down the remnants of the Bulgarin family and destroy them.