Gatewater Hotel

"Gatewater" redirects here. For other uses, see Gatewater (disambiguation).

Gatewater Hotel
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People to meet	Bellboy April May
Available evidence	Wiretap Bellboy's Affidavit
Linked locations	Fey & Co. Law Offices Detention center Grossberg Law Offices
Locations in People Park area
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Phoenix Wright

There is a giant building just outside the window. It's the Gatewater Hotel, a high-class, luxury hotel. Until recently, it had been a normal, business-class hotel.

— Turnabout Big Top

The Gatewater Hotel is an expensive hotel in Los Angeles, located opposite the Wright Anything Agency in such a way that the inside of the Agency can be seen from the windows of some hotel rooms. This allowed April May to witness Mia Fey's murder from her suite. After the murder case, a bellboy who had testified during the trial took over management of the hotel. Strangely enough, he has since delivered room service to Edgeworth's office and played the role of the Proto Badger in Gatewater Land.

The aforementioned bellboy claimed in 2016 that the Gatewater Hotel had been in business for four generations. Iced coffee at the hotel costs $9 a glass.

Murder of Mia Fey

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In 2016, Mia Fey was murdered by Redd White. White, along with his secretary April May, had been staying at the hotel, and White instructed May to "witness" the murder from the hotel room. May did this and then called the police. Detective Dick Gumshoe soon arrived on the scene and arrested Mia's younger sister Maya for the crime. Maya hired Mia's understudy, Phoenix Wright, to defend her in court.

Wright soon unraveled May's testimony and called a hotel bellboy to the stand in an attempt to find further fault with her testimony. Then, the bellboy let slip White's presence on the night of the murder, but could not confirm if he had been in the hotel room at the time of the murder. However, this was enough for the presiding judge to allow for further investigation. White took the stand the following day and accused Wright himself of the murder, but the rookie lawyer took up his own defense and broke through his lies. Once White was exposed, he broke down on the stand and confessed, clearing the names of both Maya and Wright.

Name

The hotel's name is a reference to the Watergate complex and scandal, which also involved wiretaps.

Notes

In the bad ending of the non-canon Apollo Justice: Asinine Attorney DLC episode for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice, it is mentioned that the income of the hotel across the street from the Wright Anything Agency dropped considerably due to the outcome of the trial. However, for some reason the hotel's name is given as the "Gateway Hotel", instead of the "Gatewater Hotel".