![]() ![]() In 1983, shortly after Miami drug kingpin Nelson Aguilar got out of jail, he hooked up with his friend, funk star Rick James. With narcotics fueling at least one-third of Miami’s economy, the Mutiny was the country’s drug capital, swimming in so much illicit cash that the club sold “more bottles of Dom Perignon than any other establishment on the planet.” “The primate was partial to turtlenecks and a New York baseball cap, and proudly rode shotgun in his owner’s Benz while waving a Cuban cigar.”īut just as with salmon-colored jackets and shoes with no socks, Miami residents didn’t bat an eye at Caesar - it was all just part of the show.Īt the center of it all was the Mutiny at Sailboat Bay, an 130-room hotel and club that was Miami’s version of Studio 54, “a criminal free-trade zone of sorts where gangsters would both revel in Miami’s danger and escape from it,: Farzad writes. ![]() The most notorious member of the scene surrounding The Mutiny, the Miami nightclub that epitomized the excesses of the 1980s, was a chimp named Caesar.Īs Roben Farzad explains in his new book “ Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami” (Berkeley Hardcover), Caesar was the companion of drug kingpin Mario Tabraue, who adorned him “with a gold-rope necklace holding a 50-peso gold coin, an 18-karat ID bracelet with his name in diamonds and a ladies’ Rolex Presidential. ![]()
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