Pleasure Island:
The Dark Side of PIKE’S Ibiza
The glamour days at the famous PIKES hotel in Ibiza ends tragically when the owner’s son is found dead on a secluded beach in an execution style murder in Miami.
A story of excess, mayhem and murder unfolds in the late 1990s, centering on the life of British-Australian Tony Pike, proprietor of the legendary PIKES hotel, and Italian mogul ‘Chico’ Forti, in one of Miami’s most shocking, unsolved mysteries. This stranger than fiction 3-part premium content true crime series unravels one of Miami’s most shocking unsolved murders and the bizarre set of circumstances that rocked the legendary establishment, shattered the victim’s family, tore apart the accused’s life and tarnished the island’s idyliic facade.
A quarter-century later, in a case compared to that of Amanda Knox – a foreign national living abroad convicted of a murder with very little evidence - this story is once again capturing public attention.