Volpe? The Volpe kid sent you here because he's afraid? He's a pussy!
-Avi Drexler
Robert 'Rob' Volpe is a friend and classmate to Franklin Saint and a small member of his crew.
Biography[]
He introduced Franklin to Avi Drexler who his parents are customers to. His family runs a multi-million dollar porn industry at their home in the Valley and tend to film various pornos, Straight, Gay, Fetish, etc. He was even dating a porn star named Bridgette. Later on, he reached out for help from Franklin when his father was stealing their product. Franklin and his entire crew confronted Jim Volpe about the theft while he was filming a gay porno. He soon learned his father's business was failing and they were going broke which explained why his mother left as well as the stress placed upon his dad. Soon after, he moved out of his family's home and got his own place while continuing on keeping the ye-yo flowing in the Valley. He later recruited Thad Brenner for his work in the Valley and began using some of the product himself but things went sideways went he killed a young man named Josh Hendricks at his house party over a line of coke. Franklin confronted Rob about Thad, noting that he just became a liability now that the LAPD placed in APB on him. Rob, Franklin, and Peaches eventually tracked Thad down to a family home in Palm Springs. Thad believed he was being safeguarded from the area, instead, Rob shot him dead, but not before Thad revealed that he knew Franklin had the CIA plug, indicating that Franklin realized the only way Thad would have known that was from Rob. After taking Thad's body to the Sonoran Desert, Franklin decided that Rob was liability and could no longer be trusted, so he shot him in the back of the head.
Legacy[]
Despite his loyalty to Franklin and his connection to the Valley, Rob was weak-minded and weak-willed. When he went down the crooked path and became addicted to cocaine, he began saying things to people that never should have left his mouth. Rob put his faith in someone he should never have let into the fold. Despite cleaning up his mess, in other words, killing Thad, Rob himself, was also a loose end. He betrayed Franklin's trust and ultimately died for it.
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