Jasper Jacks
Actor History
Ingo Rademacher (1996 to 2000; 10 August 2001 to Present)
Occupation
Owner of The Metro Court (hotel)
Corporate Raider
Stockholder of ELQ Industries
Resides At
Braidwood Trace, Port Charles, New York (near Carly Corinthos)
Formerly 1420 Courts Lane, Port Charles, New York (Port Charles Hotel: Suite 918) [burned down]
Marital Status
Married (Carly Benson) [Married: Apr 27th, 2007]
Past Marriages
Miranda Jamison (divorced)
Brenda Barrett (invalid)
Alexis Davis (divorced)
Skye Chandler Quartermaine (divorced)
Courtney Matthews (Married: Jun 3rd, 2005; Divorced Jan 2006; deceased)
Relatives
John Jacks (father; deceased)
Jane Jacks (mother)
Jerry Jacks
Children
Unnamed Child (miscarriage; with Courtney; 2005)
Flings & Affairs
Brenda Barrett (lovers)
Chloe Morgan (dated; deceased)
Angel Ellis (lovers)
Brenda Barrett (engaged)
Tracy Quartermaine (kissed)
Samantha McCall (lovers)
Courtney Matthews (lovers)
Carly Benson (engaged)
Crimes Committed
Accused of starting his company with mob money, but it was his father and brother.
Unknowingly committed bigamy when he married Brenda Barrett on a boat, not knowing that his first wife was still alive [May 1996]
Illegally purchased the Dead-Man's Hand from Luke Spencer [31 October 2003]
Locked Tracy Quartermaine in a closet to prevent her from following him to Azure Key [9 January 2004]
Changed the results of Courtney Matthews' paternity twice to indicate he was the baby's father [2005/2006]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Shot by Luis Alcazar while trying to protect Brenda; left him paralyzed
but he later made a full recovery [Sep 2002]
Shot by a pirate while on a treasure hunt in Azure Key [Jan 20th, 2004]
Shot in the leg by Faith Rosco [Aug 2004]
Brief Character History
Jax is originally from Australia, but he and his family moved to Alaska.
When Lois Ashton needed a corporate raider to get her company back from
Edward Quartermaine, she went to Jax. Jax immediately became interested
in Lois, but she was happily married to Ned, so she introduced to him to
Brenda Barrett. Brenda wanted Jax to help make Sonny jealous, and Jax
went along with it as a way to spent time with Brenda. The two became
attracted to each other; the only problem was that Brenda was still in
love with Sonny. Jax proposed to Brenda and she accepted having realized
there was no hope left for her and Sonny.
Jax and Brenda married on his private yacht, and when they returned to
Port Charles they planned to renew their vows in a ceremony at the
Quartermaine mansion. Jax secretly was working with Tracy Quartermaine
to take over ELQ. That secret was revealed, and Jax backed off with
working with Tracy. On the day that Jax and Brenda were to renew their
vows, Brenda realized that she truly loved Jax and that he was the one
she belonged with. Unfortunately Sonny showed up at the wedding with
Jax's presumed dead wife, Miranda to confront Jax. Jax had assumed that
Miranda had died when she was in a building that had been bombed, but
Jax's parents knew the truth. Miranda's face had been badly disfigured
after the explosion; Miranda didn't want to burden Jax so she let him
think she was dead. Jax was torn between Miranda and Brenda, but
realized he was in love with Brenda. However, Brenda had decided to
reunite with Sonny.
When Sonny left Brenda at the alter, Jax was there to be by Brenda's
side and eventually after trying to win his love again, he and Brenda
became engaged. Jax lost Brenda again when her mother, who was mentally
ill, drove both Brenda and herself over a cliff, killing them both. The
day of Brenda's funeral Jax was arrested along with the rest of his
family. Jax's father and brother had started their company with money
they received from the mob. Jax lost everything, but he did not let that
get him down. With the help of his friends, V, Ned and Alexis, Jax
managed to win a large sum of money in Monte Carlo, and started to
rebuild his empire.
The night of AJ and Carly's engagement party Jax met Chloe Morgan, and
the two immediately hit it off. When a ballroom dance act didn't show up
to perform at the Nurses' Ball, Jax and Chloe stepped in and delighted
the audience. Then Chloe got a call from her business manager reminding
her that if she was not married in a month she would lose her company.
Ned stepped in and asked Chloe to marry him; Chloe agreed. So Ned and
Chloe, along with Jax and Alexis flew to Vegas. The only problem was
that Chloe's Aunt Gertrude showed up, and claimed that this Vegas
wedding did not comply with the legal definition of "happily married,"
as it was stated in the will. So to cover the whole thing up, Jax and
Alexis married instead. To make it appear that Ned and Chloe's impending
marriage was real, Jax and Alexis needed to make it appear as though
their marriage was also real. They even went as far as to move Alexis
into his penthouse. Alexis and Jax became good friends while they were
married, but his heart belonged to Chloe Morgan. After a romantic
courtship, they proclaimed their love. Shortly after, Chloe was struck
by a vehicle in a hit and run meant for Alexis. Helena had meant to kill
Alexis, thinking she knew about Lucky Spencer's kidnapping. Chloe was
rendered blind from her injuries, but surgery restored her sight. When
the mixed pairs divorced after Gertrude caught Jax and Chloe together,
Jax moved Chloe into his penthouse and took over Gertrude's company,
allowing Chloe to design under her own name again. Unfortunately, it was
learned that she had a rapidly growing tumor near her optic nerve. Jax
nurtured Chloe through her illness and intended to marry her.
Knowing that Chloe was in need of medication, Helena bought the drug
company that manufactured it in an attempt to blackmail Jax into bed.
Jax pretended to take the bait and then swiftly tied Helena up and
electronically purchased the drug company. He then left with the drug
sample that Helena had in her possession. Helena was impressed but
unapologetic. When Chloe began having visions of how Helena had killed
Stefan, Jax took her away on a tropical vacation. Helena followed them
and attempted to kill Chloe. She was unsuccessful and escaped without
detection.
One day, Jax spotted a picture in a magazine of someone who appeared to
be Brenda. Unbeknownst to Jax, it was a set up by Stefan Cassadine to
force Jax to leave Chloe. After he did, Stefan planned to kidnap Chloe
and use her psychic abilities from her brain tumor to bring down his
mother, Helena Cassadine. The plan worked beautifully and Jax broke
Chloe's heart to leave Port Charles and go off in search of his former
love.
While searching for Brenda, Jax hired and had an affair with
professional tracker Angel Ellis. Angel introduced Jax to Kristina
Carter, who had hired Angel to find her sister. Jax realized that
Kristina and his ex-wife, Alexis Davis, were sisters so Jax brought
Kristina to Port Charles. There Jax dealt with his sudden desertion of
Chloe Morgan. After filling Chloe in on the truth surrounding his abrupt
desertion of her, she wanted nothing to do with him and he realized that
he wanted more for her than he could give her. But he remained
protective of her. When Chloe was murdered, Jax firmly believed Stefan
Cassadine was the murderer. However, to protect Kristina and Alexis, Jax
joined forces with the "good" Cassadines to bring down the "bad"
Cassadines.
After Helena and Stavros were dealt with, Jax, who had been buying up
huge amounts of Cassadine properties, sold them back at his cost to the
Cassadine estate. He then turned his attention to the ruination of the
Quartermaines. With the assistance of Skye and A.J. Quartermaine, Jax
obtained controlling interest in ELQ. Finally, Jax had to deal with his
longtime nemesis, Sonny Corinthos. Jax decided to back Carly, Sonny's
ex-wife, in her new club venture. He also was able to obtain
condemnation notices on most of Sonny's properties in Port Charles. But
while Jax toppled financial empires, he began to fall for Skye
Chandler-Quartermaine.
Jax initially disliked Skye, although this didn't stop Skye from trying
to get Jax to help her go after Sonny. He refused and continually tried
to warn her off of getting entangled with Sonny. Sexual tension slowly
developed between them despite repeated arguments and set backs in their
growing partnership. When he suspected her of developing feelings for
him, Jax informed Skye that he didn't feel capable of ever falling in
love again. She took this as a challenge and continually found ways to
get Jax to come to her aide by pretending to be a damsel in distress.
But her plans nearly backfired when she got locked in the boathouse for
real. Believing that no one would come to find her, including Jax whom
she'd recently argued with, she swam for shore. Jax discovered her
half-frozen on the shore and took her to the lake house to care for her.
He used body heat to warm her and they made love.
When AJ ran off with Courtney, Skye implored Jax to help her get to AJ
before Sonny could. But they were too late, although no harm came to AJ
at that point. Jax and Sonny soon got distracted by Carly's sudden
disappearance and possible death when her car ran off a cliff. When Jax
wanted to shut down Carly's club, Skye told him that Carly would rather
it be kept open and that it would be a way to keep her spirit alive.
When Carly was discovered to be alive, Skye speculated that Carly faked
the accident. Jax began to believe Skye and confronted Carly about it.
She vehemently denied it and told Jax not to contact her until he
remembered how to be a friend.
Sonny and Carly reunited quickly after her accident, but Carly remained
jealous of Alexis' connection with Sonny. She used money from her club
with Jax to pay a former boss of Alexis' to hire her and get her out of
town. Jax discovered the missing money and went to Sonny, accusing Carly
of embezzling from the club. To keep Jax from going to the cops, Carly
was forced to give up her share of the club. Jax then gave the club to
Skye. But Jax didn't realize that Skye was double-crossing him with
Edward in order to become the sole heir to the Quartermaine fortune.
Edward played on Skye's insecurities regarding Jax's love and got her to
agree to steal the map to the Jacks family oil wells. But someone got to
the map first. When Edward threatened to reveal Skye's misdeeds to Jax,
she fought him and he had a stroke. When Ned discovered Skye's contract
with Edward, he forced her to tell Jax the truth. Jax felt very betrayed
and coldly dumped her. But when she got drunk, blacked out, and woke up
to discover Edward's respirator unplugged, she feared the worst and went
into hiding. He rescued her and eventually forgave her. They resumed
their engagement and wedding plans.
On Jax and Skye's wedding night, a ghost from Jax's past revealed
herself: a very much alive Brenda. She had survived the car crash and
had been rescued by a passing ship. The owner of the ship, Luis Alcazar
had then kept her for himself for the past four years, promising to keep
her from hurting herself and her loved ones by keeping her away from
Port Charles. But Brenda wanted to return to Port Charles to see those
she loved one last time. She also wanted to leave Luis. Jax postponed
his honeymoon with Skye to help protect Brenda from Luis. While doing
so, Jax was shot by Luis and left paralyzed. Feeling sorry for himself,
he pushed Skye away. When she refused to leave him, Jax got Brenda to
help him by pretending to be in love with him still. She also seemed to
help him in his recovery. Skye was suspicious of Brenda and did some
digging. She found out that Brenda wasn't actually dying of a mental
illness, but she kept that fact to herself. When Jax found out on his
own that Brenda wasn't dying, he confronted Skye and she admitted
knowing already. Jax dumped Skye for her games and her lies. Jax told
Brenda that she wasn't dying and they reunited.
The night of Jax and Brenda's engagement party thrown by the
Quartermaines, Luiz and Skye crashed the party and were snubbed by their
former lovers. Later that evening, Luiz was thrown off the balcony of
his hotel suite to his death, and Brenda was one of the prime suspects,
thanks in part to Skye's "eyewitness" account of the murder. Jax did
everything he could to prevent her from going to jail, including hiring
Alexis to defend her and even confessing to the crime himself. Brenda
was found guilty along with Jason Morgan and sentenced to jail, but the
real killer revealed evidence not known to anyone but the cops and
Brenda and Jason were released. Jason and Brenda got an annulment and
Jax forged full steam ahead with his plans to marry Brenda. But when it
came time for Jax to say "I do," he said "I don't" because he knew that
Brenda had kissed Sonny the night before and he couldn't marry someone
who didn't love him completely. Humiliated, Brenda told him she didn't
want to marry him either because he had hurt her so publicly.
Jax tried to console his broken heart with random women, even call
girls. This surprised Skye, who tried her best to console him but he
pushed her away. Although the romance was gone, Jax continued to help
Skye out of the sticky situations she got herself into. When Skye and AJ
paired up to kidnap Kristina, Skye ended up confessing her misdeed to
Jax. He promised to help her and even offered to whisk her out of town,
giving her the wrong impression. Jax also tried to help Alexis by
getting her a good defense for her trial and trying to get Ned to let
her see Kristina. When Sonny began to suspect Jax of secretly partnering
with Faith against him, Sonny taunted Jax to come and kill him at a
warehouse. Jax called the cops instead. Later he convinced Jason that he
would go after Sonny overtly without a partner. Jax rescued Skye once
again when Tracy came to town with the juicy tidbit that Skye wasn't a
Quartermaine after all. Jax tried to charm Tracy to tell the truth,
which earned him a slap from Skye for enjoying his work a little too
much. Jax tried to rescue Skye one last time by persuading Ned to offer
her a job at ELQ, but she inadvertently sabotaged it. Later she thanked
him for his help and wished that they could recapture what they once
had. She tried to persuade him to have a baby with her, but he turned
her down and left town for awhile.
He returned in October 2003 hot on the trail of the Dead Man's Hand,
which were the 5 cards that Wild Bill Hickok held in his last hand of
poker the night he was shot dead. Jax was after the cards because his
father had possession of them for the greater part of his life and
believed them to be his lucky charm. But someone had stolen the cards
from him and John subsequently lost the will to live without the cards.
So Jax began the search for the missing cards. Along the way he ran into
a tough brunette named Samantha McCall. Sam also wanted the cards but
for the opposite reason. Her family had also had possession of the cards
at one time and considered them to be the cause of a string of bad luck.
So Sam wanted to find the cards and destroy them. Together, Jax and Sam
figured out that the cards were stolen by someone from Port Charles.
Once there, they narrowed their search to A.J. Quartermaine, who had the
other four cards and swiftly figured out that Sam and Jax knew something
about the last card. Caught sneaking into the Quartermaine mansion, Jax
and Sam were forced to pretend to be a couple. Sam nearly blew their
cover by going on to claim to be an heiress, which was far from the
truth. Jax made a bet with Sam with the cards as the prize that she
couldn't convince anyone that she was an heiress. Of course, she lost.
The two constantly fought over the few cards in their possession as the
sexual tension between them continually built up. Jax thought he had
finally gotten the cards when Luke auctioned them off at the Halloween
party, but shortly after wiring the money to Luke the auction crowd was
gassed and a mystery person stole the cards. The person turned out to be
a former lover of Sam's who tried to bargain one night of sex with her
for the cards. Jax finally obtained the cards once and for all and
headed off to show them to his father. Sam managed to stow away in his
car and persuaded him to let her test the true luck of the cards at a
casino along the way. The pair also finally gave into their passion and
made love. Jax finally made it to his father's death bed, but just as he
was about to show him the cards, John breathed his last breath and died.
Devastated, Jax pushed Sam away, blaming her for making him waste time
in getting the cards to his father. Jax had also discovered that Sam had
rigged his rental car to breakdown. To get her back, he paired up with
Tracy Quartermaine, who had recently returned to town, to use Sam and
get the cards back to open a new casino. But it quickly became a
question of who was double-crossing who as Sam agreed to screw over Jax
and get the cards to Luke so that HE could open a casino on the
newly-returned Haunted Star ship.
