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Fictional biography

Turtle, like Eric, is a childhood friend of Vince's from Queens. Turtle is Vincent's driver and takes care of issues around the house. He brings street smarts and an urban flavor to the group and is a frequent user of marijuana. In most episodes, he and Drama stick together and do their own things while E and Vincent are doing business. Turtle seems to be the guy to find the good in all bad situations and bring a relative calm to the group. Turtle's importance is at times overlooked as his insight and personal connections sometimes solve difficult issues. He is mainly seen wearing jerseys of athletes such as Kevin Garnett and Alex Rodriguez. Despite his parasitic relationship with Vince, his loyalty and friendship temper his baser qualities, like working with Eric to protect Vince from a vindictive internet journalist. In season two, Eric's car is stolen by two friends as a means of getting their rap demo tape into the hands of a music producer who has the exact same car. Loving the music, Turtle gets a track into Queens Boulevard and agrees to manage the promising musician played by real life rapper Saigon. Saigon received a great deal of interest from several record companies after Vince arranged for Saigon's music to be played by Big Boy on popular L.A. radio station, Power 106. After Turtle obtained representation for Saigon from Ari, Turtle lost his client when Saigon informed him that a former manager had returned and muscled Turtle out of the picture. Eric E Murphy is a character on the dramedy television series Entourage. ... Vincent Vince Chase is a fictional character on the dramedy television series Entourage. ... A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ... Kevin Garnett (born May 19, 1976) is an American professional basketball player for the NBAs Minnesota Timberwolves. ... “A-Rod” redirects here. ... Saigon (born Brian Carenard, 1978) is an American rapper. ...

In Aquamom, Turtle's mother asked, "Who's that animal," in reference to the dates that he and Drama were planning to take to the premiere. However, because of the crowd noise some mistake his mother as saying "Adam" instead of "animal," thus believing that Turtle's real name is Adam. Neither his full name nor the reason why he's referred to as 'Turtle' has been revealed yet.

Inspiration

The Turtle character was based on Mark Wahlberg's real-life assistant, 39-year-old Donnie "Donkey" Carroll. Donkey carried Wahlberg's bags for more than 14 years while trying to launch a career as a rap musician under the name Murda One.^{[citation needed]} Donkey died suddenly on December 18, 2005 of an asthma attack. Donkey and Wahlberg had a falling out earlier in 2005 because Carroll claimed Wahlberg never paid him for appropriating his life story for Entourage. He said all the other real-life characters had been taken care of but that he'd been cut out.^[1]

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