The Albanian mob prefer a simple star.Īccording to an assessment by the Spanish Intelligence Centre for Counter Terrorism, Malaga province - with Marbella at its hub - is now the European HQ for an astonishing 113 organised crime groups of 59 different nationalities. Foreheads tattooed with Kalashnikovs are another not-so subtle message to give them a wide berth. You see their aspirational young ‘soldiers’ strutting along the harbour, their bulging beltlines betraying the automatic pistols they are packing. You see the big bosses parading their untouchable power in the fleshpots of Puerto Banus, where they barge through the hordes in their Lamborghinis and Maseratis, one beefy arm propped on the open window, the other mauling the skimpily clad girl coiled in the passenger seat. Revisiting the fabled Costa del Crime this week, however, one saw how this old lags’ stamping ground has fallen into the grip of a chilling new breed of gangster who play in a different league. Years ago, after accosting Knight in Wyns Bar, his hilltop lair above Benalmadena, I was warned away under threat of a beating - and a hapless colleague who went there after me got one.
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The notion that these self-glorifying, old-school villains lived by some honourable code that prevented them harming anyone outside their nefarious world was romanticised nonsense. Then, characters such as Freddie Foreman, a henchman for the Kray twins, and big-time robber Ronnie Knight (who was jokingly said to have fled here to escape the wrath of his scorned wife, actress Barbara Windsor, every bit as much as the police) took advantage of a lapsed extradition treaty between Spain and Britain. Within easy reach of Manchester and London, yet only a fast speedboat ride away from North Africa, this southernmost edge of Europe has long been the refuge of choice for fugitive rogues.Ī sunny place for shady people, the wags called it back in the early Eighties, perhaps unwittingly purloining a phrase the great writer Somerset Maugham used to describe Monaco. The dancefloor at the nightclub was left covered in blood following the violent incident
Descending from a thronging highway bordering the Med, however, they would have found a place far removed from the glamorous neverland they had been promised.Ĭordoned off by police tape, as forensics officers examined the open-air stage for bloodstains and bullet holes - and hunted for the missing gun that had caused them - this eerily deserted club now stands as a grim reminder of the dark forces at work behind the parasols and pina coladas.įorces that are becoming ever more vicious and volatile on this stretch of the Costa del Sol, a troubling departure for the hundreds of thousands of British sunseekers who flock to the narrow, 50-mile strip, sandwiched between dramatic mountains and the glistening sea. Seduced by the blissed-out images, many tourists were doubtless lured there this week. Made the cover of In Fashion magazine in July 1991, along with Mädchen Amick.Wearily awaiting their suitcases at Malaga Airport last Monday night, British holidaymakers relieved the tedium by watching adverts on giant video screens overhanging the baggage carousels.ĭepicting a round-the-clock playground where perfect families sip cocktails and frolic in the pool by day, while by night the young and beautiful cavort on a strobe-lit dancefloor, the glitziest of these commercials plugged Opium - ‘the best beach club’ in nearby Marbella. His brother Louis Mandylor produced and co-wrote it.Ĭostas Mandylor was in a Thriller movie called "Bitter Sweet." It also starred Gary Stretch, Yasmine Bleeth, and Michael Madsen. Was in a short film called My Brother Cicero (1998). He and brother Louis Mandylor shared the screen together as homicidal ghost siblings in the fourth season episode "Saving Private Leo" of "Charmed" (1998). Listed in People 2000 Awesome Aussies Beautiful People.
Mother's maiden name is "Mandylaris." When both Costas and Louis got into acting, they changed their birth name (which is Theodosopolous) to Mandylor, which they got from their mother's name. He used to train with his brother Louis, who is an expert in Thai Kickboxing.
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Played professional soccer for Greece and Australia until he suffered stress fractures to his shins.
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(5 episodes, 2004-2006)įlatland (2002) TV series (unknown episodes)Ĭhosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. Except East Richmond (2008) (announced) (attached)ĭisaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006) (TV)īeau Brewer /.
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