The Ray Family

Little is known about Tony's true family. Tony will on occasion vaguely allude to his brothers Ronald and Robert in his videos. It is known from obituaries that he has four siblings along with several nieces and nephews.

As is common with paranoid schizophrenics, Tony is reclusive and makes little to no effort to remain in touch with his family. He has repeatedly denied that anyone in the Ray family is actually related to him, instead claiming that his mother is Doris Duke and that his father is alternately Howard Hughes or Walt Disney. Tony claims that the government held him hostage under the Ray family name as a child as a ploy to steal Tony's wealth, so it seems unlikely that Tony will ever willingly reestablish contact with the Ray family unless Tony receives psychiatric help.

Mark Ray's Family Tree

Mark Ray's family tree

Tony's Claimed Family History

Parents

Tony has made an extensive amount of claims about his parents.

According to Tony, his mother and father were murdered and his mother was cryogenically frozen.

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Here again Tony mentions Ronald Ray.

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Around 4:00 Tony mentions Ronald Ray and crack pipes.

Other relatives

Les Ray

Leslie "Les" Ray is Tony's father. Les served in the air force during the Korean War, and apart from Tony, he fathered four other children including two sons Robert and Ronald, and two daughters, Jill and Neica. Les Ray passed away in 2003 at the age of 71. Les and Tony's mother Mary Lou were married at one point, but they eventually became separated sometime before their deaths.

Mary Lou Palmer

Mary Lou Palmer, née Grace, is the presumed mother of Tony and his four siblings, and she passed away in 2013 at the age of 68. Little information about Mary Lou is available on the internet apart from a very short obituary. In particular, although it is known that Tony's dad Les fathered five children, it is not known whether each of these children Mary Lou's children.

Stan Palmer

Mentioned once in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79jSuMnZw6M around the 15 min mark

Ronald Ray

Ronald Ray is presumably a sibling of Tony's. Tony and Ronald had an adversarial relationship. This may have been due to Ronald's alleged crack use, or perhaps because of Tony accusing him of crack use. Tony claims that Ronald even attended rehab on account of his addiction. In any case, it is confirmed that Ronald struggled with drug addiction.

Ronald Ray worked as an undercover cop and was tasked with sting operations involving drugs. Ronald Ray was murdered on April 17, 2009. Although the case remains unsolved, it is believed that the murderer was an enemy that Ronald had made through his work as a police officer.

Robert (Robbie) Ray

Robert Ray is a brother of Tony. Tony has mentioned Robert a few times on his channel. In one video, Tony claims that Robert Ray may have been sleeping with Tony's ex-girlfriends. In other videos, Tony warns people who have been referring to him as Robert Ray.

In a Skype call between Tony and several others, Robert Ray became the center of discussion after Tony discovered that this wiki listed Robert Ray as one of his several aliases. A meltdown ensued where Tony hurled insults and threats at Frank Sinatra, who Tony believed was responsible for fabricating and spreading this misinformation. This meltdown has been uploaded to YouTube by the Tony Chase Archive Channel. Tony uploaded his own video in response to discovering the wiki. Here, he appears to confuse this wiki with Wikipedia. This wiki listed Robert Ray as one of Tony's aliases because Tony had made a handful of videos in the past emphasizing that Robert and him were different people. It is now known that Robert and Tony are brothers.

In October, 2024, Robert showed up to Tony's little house unannounced on a bike. Although Tony was home at the time, he refused to open the door for him and instead uploaded ring camera footage of Robert to his YouTube.

Frances M. Elkins

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Frances Elkins, née Fulk, is the confirmed grandmother of Tony. In 1944, she married Irvin Grace and had four children, one of them being Tony's mother Mary Lou Palmer. She would later marry Arthur Elkins. She passed away in 2019 at the age of 93. Tony inherited her house aftger she passed.