Hannah Maguire

The Bakelands wanted a boy genius and they only saw what they wanted to see.

Both Brooks and Barbara were obsessed with the idea that Tony was going to go down in history as a someone.

Which he did, just not in the way they had hoped.

Sylvie was a vibrant young French woman who became friends with Tony when the family were living in the Spanish town of Caracas in 1967.

She was, at least on paper, Tony's first girlfriend.

Now 21, Tony sheepishly introduced Sylvie to his parents.

But when his new beau caught the eye of Tony's dashing dad, Brooks, they started an affair that would change everything.

Upon discovering Brooks and Sylvie's fling in February 1968, Barbara resorted to her usual trick of attempting suicide with an overdose of pills in Paris.

But this time, it was more serious, landing her in a coma for several weeks.

And when she woke up, Brooks wasn't there.

He had finally had enough and officially left Barbara for Sylvie.

Whilst rolling with a fringe hippie crowd in Caddicase and supposedly dating Sylvie, Tony had fallen under the spell of an Australian bisexual guy called Jake Cooper.

Nicknamed Black Jake because he exclusively wore head-to-toe black and silver skull motif jewellery, he was rumoured to be into dark magic and voodoo rituals.

Which, if you are giving your son the Marquis de Sade age 12, you cannot be surprised that that is what he's going for.

Fair.

People describe Tony as Jake's bitch.

following him around like a lovesick puppy.

And unsurprisingly for the 60s, their relationship revolved mainly around sex and drugs, which again, why are you surprised?

Needless to say, Tony's parents didn't approve of this intense friendship, even though they literally teed him up for it.

And to be fair, Black Jake Cooper was bad news.