Sonny Corinthos
Actor History
Maurice Benard (August 13, 1993 to September 24, 1997; Spring 1998; December 18, 1998 to Present)
Other Names
Michael Corinthos Jr. (full name)
Occupation
Crime Lord
Coffee Importer
Former co-owner of Deception Cosmetics, with Laura Spencer. (Gave his share to Carly)
Former partner in Luke's Blues Club
Former partner in L&B Records
Former owner of the Paradise Lounge
Resides At
Greystone Manor
Formerly at 122 Harbor View Drive, Port Charles, New York (Harbor View Towers: Penthouse 4)
Marital Status
Single/Divorced (Carly Benson) [Married: Jan 16th, 2007; Divorced: Apr 19th, 2007]
Past Marriages
Lily Rivera (dissolved by her death)
Carly Benson (Married: September 2000; Divorced: November 2001)
Carly Benson Married: February 2001)
Carly Benson (divorced; second time)
Carly Benson (Married: Jan 16th, 2007; Divorced: Apr 19th, 2007)
Relatives
Mike Corbin (father)
Adela Corinthos (mother; deceased)
Richard Lansing (half-brother)
Courtney Matthews (half-sister; deceased)
Molly Lansing (half-niece)
Spencer Cassadine (half-nephew)
Children
Unnamed Child (son; with Lily; Deceased)
Michael Corinthos III (adopted son; Carly's child with AJ)
Unnamed Child (son; miscarried; with Carly)
Kristina Adela Corinthos Davis (daughter; with Alexis)
Morgan Stone Corinthos (son; with Carly)
Baby Girl McCall (daughter; with Samantha; deceased [Nov 8th, 2004]) *
* Samantha had wanted to call her Lila, but the baby was buried as Baby Girl McCall.
Flings & Affairs
Karen Wexler (lovers)
Brenda Barrett (lovers)
Cindy Woods (dated)
Hannah Scott (lovers)
Carly Quartermaine (affair)
Angel Ellis (lovers)
Alexis Davis (lovers)
Faith Rosco (kissed)
Samantha McCall (affair)
Reese Marshall (affair; deceased)
Emily Bowen-Quartermaine (lovers)
Amelia Joffee
Kate Howard (one-night stand)
Claudia Zacchara (one-night stand)
Crimes Committed
Has been involved in "unscrupulous" mob-related activities.
Put out a hit on Jagger Cates [1993]
Shot and killed Scully, the man who had befriended him as a teenager and had Sonny's stepfather killed [1995]
Busted Brenda out of jail when she was arrested for murdering Pierce Dorman [1997]
Arrested by the FBI for racketeering [September 1999]
Adultery; slept with Carly Benson while she was married to A.J. Quartermaine. [November 29, 1999]
Blackmailed AJ into giving Carly a divorce [March 2000]
Arrested by the FBI when Carly and Roy DiLucci set him up [April 2001]
Helped fugitive Angel Ellis skip town [October 25, 2001]
Arrested for locking Skye Quartermaine in a boathouse (not guilty) [March 2002]
Faked his death to flush out Luis Alcazar; later shot him after Alcazar found Brenda and Jax at her old cottage [September 2002]
Shot both Lorenzo Alcazar and Carly Corinthos [October 24, 2003]
Held a gun up to Faith Rosco's neck [October 31, 2003]
Attempted murder; tried to shoot and kill Lorenzo Alcazar [November 26, 2003]
Kidnapped Samantha McCall [November 26, 2003]
Shot and killed Ben Rogers to protect Sam [January 9, 2004]
Adultery with Sam McCall (while married to Carly) [Winter to Spring 2004]
Sent Jason to kill Brian Beck [February 5, 2004]
Held Brian at gunpoint [February 11, 2004]
Killed the assassin who planted the explosive in his limo [April 2004]
Arrested for racketeering in [Nov 18th, 2004]
Ordered Jason to kill Lorenzo Alcazar [2007]
False imprisonment; kidnapped Johnny and held him prisoner in an abandoned mental hospital because he thought Johnny had kidnapped Michael and shot Kate. [Mar 2008]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
Suffers from claustrophobia due to being locked in the closet as a child
Beat up by Jagger Cates [1993]
Shot while helping to bust Frank Smith out of jail; passed out while driving and crashed his car into Brenda's [1994]
Nearly died from being injected with heroine [November 1996]
Shot outside the police station and nearly died [December 2000]
Nearly died when his warehouse was set on fire
Stabbed at Lily's gravesite by Sorel [June 6, 2001]
Slightly injured when a bomb he was wearing in a showdown with Sorel went off [2001]
Beat up by Lorenzo Alcazar when Alcazar kidnapped him to demand the return of his drugs [2003]
Shot by Det. Brian Beck [December 2, 2003]
Injured his leg during the inferno at the P.C. Hotel [February 12, 2004]
Fell ill during the encephalitis plague that hit Port Charles [February 3, 2006]
Brief Character History
Sonny Corinthos grew up in in New York with his mother and stepfather. Sonny's stepfather was a cop who beat Sonny's mother and locked Sonny in the closet. When Sonny was a teenager, he became friends with a powerful man in the neighborhood who had Sonny's stepfather killed.
Sonny made his first appearance in Port Charles in 1993 as the owner of the Paradise Lounge, a strip club where Karen Wexler was working as a stripper. Sonny and Stone Cates lived in the apartment above the club. Karen and Sonny became lovers. One day Karen's boyfriend and Stone's brother, Jagger Cates, found them in bed together and beat up Sonny. Sonny put a hit out on him but Marco Dane (Jagger's manager) offered Sonny a piece of Jagger's boxing winnings instead. Sonny's strip joint was closed down when Sean Donelly learned that there were underage kids working there.
Sonny then started to work with Luke Spencer, under Frank Smith's organization. He also began casually dating Brenda Barrett. Sonny helped Luke break Frank Smith out of jail, and when there was a shoot out, Sonny took two bullets. As a result, he passed out while he was driving, and crashed into Brenda's car. Brenda brought Sonny back to his apartment and called a doctor. She then donated her blood to save his life.
Later on, Brenda introduced Sonny to her friend, Lois Cerullo. As it turned out, Lois and Sonny grew up together. The three of them started a record company, L&B Records. Sonny also partnered up with Luke Spencer to open a blues club. A drifter, Mike Corbin, came into town and Luke hired him to work at the club. It was later revealed that Mike was, in fact, Sonny's estranged father.
Ned Ashton hired Mac to investigate Sonny, and by this time, Brenda had moved in with him. After getting shot at in the shower, Brenda becomes suspicious of Sonny's career. Ned and Lois convinced her to wear a wire. But Lily Rivera had warned Sonny about the wire, so Sonny confronted Brenda and threw her out.
Stone later told his girlfriend, Robin Scorpio and Sonny that he had AIDS and when he became very sick, Sonny took money from an illegal account to pay for the medical bills. The two became closer at the end of Stone's life, and his death left Sonny devastated.
Just as Sonny and Brenda were about to reunite, Sonny discovered that he was being investigated for racketeering. He sold his shares of Luke's to Lucy and his part of L&B to Edward Quartermaine. Lily's father, Rivera offered to make Sonny's trouble disappear if Sonny promised to marry Lily, so he did. But soon after, Sonny decided to run away with Brenda. His plans were put to a halt though, when he discovered that Lily was pregnant. Unfortunately Rivera thought that Sonny was leaving Lily and he had a bomb put in Sonny's car, but Lily got killed instead of Sonny.
After his accident which left him with no memories, Jason Morgan began working for Sonny. Later, Sonny ruined Jasper Jacks and Brenda's second wedding by bringing Miranda, Jax's wife to the wedding. Everyone had thought she was dead. Sonny and Brenda reunited later on, but Sonny left Brenda standing at the altar on the day they were to be married, and left town. Jason brought Sonny back to town after Brenda's death and the two determined to stay legit by starting a coffee importing business. Soon after, Sonny was forced to take back his territory, but he refused to let Jason help him. To add to his complications, Juan Santiago, the son that Lily gave up for adoption when she was young appeared in Port Charles looking for Sonny.
Juan came to Port Charles mistakenly believing that Sonny was his real father. Sonny pushed him away, not wanting the boy to be caught up in his mob life. After many uncomfortable meetings, they finally made peace at Lily's gravesite and Sonny told Juan who his real father was and that he wished he truly was his father.
Sonny was intrigued by Hannah Scott, a waitress at Luke's Club. She bore a striking resemblance to the love of his life, Brenda, but soon individualized herself as her own woman. After a brief courtship, they became lovers and Sonny gave her his heart. He was devastated when Jason and Carly revealed to him that Hannah was an undercover FBI agent, assigned to bring him down. He continued the relationship long enough to feed false information to the feds, and then threw her out of his penthouse. He then refused to speak civilly to her, despite her pleadings of how much she really loved him.
Out of pain for Hannah's betrayal, Sonny had a passionate one night stand with Carly Quartermaine, who was reeling from the pain of thinking Jason was having an affair with Elizabeth Webber. The two had fierce, passionate sex and Carly became pregnant. Sonny freed Carly and her son, Michael from her loveless marriage to A.J. Quartermaine and brought them to live with him. One night when Carly was at the Quartermaine mansion to visit with Lila, she and AJ had an encounter on the stairs. AJ had just come home drunk, and the two began to fight. Carly then lost her balance and fell backward onto the floor of the foyer. She was rushed to the hospital, where the doctors told Sonny that she was very seriously hurt. If the baby was not aborted, Carly would die. So, after saying goodbye to what he later found out to be his son, Sonny authorized the abortion. When she woke up after the operation, Carly did not remember what had happened and she was confused as to where the baby had gone. Sonny explained to her what had occurred, and she fell into a temporary state of depression. Sonny then took Carly and Michael to his private island in Puerto Rico so that she could recover from losing the baby.
A while after they returned home, Sonny's father Mike got into trouble with some loan sharks who happened to be working for Sonny's archenemy, Joseph Sorel. Carly tried to help out. She arranged for the meeting between Mike and Sorel in a motel room to be recorded and then busted up by the cops who would arrest Sorel. However, at the last minute, Sonny found out about the meeting, and furious at Mike, decided to go meet with Sorel himself to straighten things out. Carly was not aware of this change, and continued everything as planned. She hid in the closet in the motel room dressed as a hooker, and waited for Mike and Sorel to show up. Sonny came instead, and when the cops showed up, she was discovered in the closet. Since Carly was the only witness, she would be forced to testify against Sonny and would probably send him to prison. Alexis Davis, his lawyer, said that the only way she could get out of this would be to marry Sonny since spouses can't be forced to incriminate each other. Although enraged at Carly for what she had done, Sonny agreed to marry her if it would keep him out of jail. They were married by a justice of the peace in Sonny's penthouse with Alexis and Jason as witnesses. After many fights and rough spots, Carly and Sonny eventually realized that they liked each other and decided to remain married and give each other a chance. Although they were falling in love, neither of them would admit it. Later on, Sonny and Alexis helped release a young man named Zander Smith from prison. Zander, who was also Emily Quartermaine's boyfriend, had been framed for murder after working for Sorel, and his testimony would put Sorel in prison, so Sonny decided to help him. On the night that Zander was released, Sonny, Alexis, Zander, and Emily were walking down the steps of the PCPD, when two gunmen dressed as police officers fired at them. Sonny was wounded badly, and before he went unconscious, he told Alexis to tell Carly that he loved her.
After receiving Sonny's message, Carly was more determined than ever that Sonny would be okay. When his heart stopped beating, she forced the doctors to shock him one more time, and he lived. Sonny told her that he came back for her and she admitted that she loved him too. Then as a surprise, Sonny proposed to Carly and told her that he wanted to retake their vows in front of God in a chapel on Martinique. Everything was going well until Sonny was almost killed again, this time in a warehouse fire caused by Sorel. Sonny realized that by being married to him, Carly would only be in danger. He tried to break off the marriage, but Carly wouldn't hear it, and flew to Martinique. Sonny followed her with the intention of hurting her so that she would hate him, but Carly saw right through his plan and made him realize that they should be together. While in Martinique, they renewed their wedding vows.
After Carly again betrayed Sonny, this time by attempting to get him into the Witness Protection Program, Sonny broke it off with his wife. Sonny took off to the cemetery, where he was stabbed by Sorel. While bleeding to death, Angel Ellis found Sonny and took him to her lake house. There she nursed him back to health. Much later, Sonny learned that Angel was the estranged daughter of Joseph Sorel. When Sorel held Carly and Alexis hostage in the Corinthos penthouse, Zander tried to rescue them but was shot by Sorel instead. Sonny came in wearing a bomb. Sorel was injured severely when the bomb went off but Sonny was okay. Sorel later was murdered by his daughter, Angel, at General Hospital. Everyone survived the bomb blast with minor injuries. Taggert, who was on the scene, suffered a temporary hearing loss.
Sonny got his best union contractors on the job and both penthouses were quickly back in order. Sonny had to completely redecorate his penthouse which pleased Carly since she never cared for the original. However, Sonny and Carly could not make amends and the divorce Sonny had filed for proceeded. Even though they were getting divorced, Carly agreed to allow Sonny to adopt Michael. Sonny then assigned Zander to watch over Carly. Meanwhile, a labor dispute at his Puerto Rico Rum plantation caused Alexis to miss her nephew's engagement party as she and Sonny flew out to handle the delicate negotiations. After the contract was pinned down, Sonny took Alexis out to get her to loosen up. Alexis enjoyed the feeling and found herself attracted to Sonny.
Back in Port Charles, Sonny got to meet the sister he never knew he had. While attempting to build a relationship with her, Courtney temporarily resided with Alexis and Kristina. Kristina, Alexis' sister, had taken it upon herself to protect her sister from Sonny. However, in one of her unfortunate displays of being unable to keep things to herself, she told Sonny that Alexis was in love with him. Sonny also had feelings for Alexis, and one night, they made love. As fate would have it, Carly walked in on them, and then ran out of the penthouse. Her car later skidded over a cliff and she was presumed dead. Sonny was grief-stricken at his loss, then overjoyed when she returned several days later. They reconciled, which effectively ended any budding relationship with Alexis. Alexis discovered she was pregnant, but lied that Ned Ashton was the father because she didn't want to stay in Sonny's world. Kristina found out the truth, but was killed in an explosion at Sonny's warehouse (the explosion was set by rival crime lord Luis Alcazar). Alexis swore she would never forgive Sonny or his cohorts. When she gave birth to a baby girl, named Kristina, Sonny remained unaware that he was her biological father.
Sonny was busy dealing with his sister's marriage to archenemy A.J. Quartermaine, as well as old love Brenda's return from the dead. She and Jason were tried for Alcazar's murder, but eventually cleared. Although Brenda and Sonny were close and shared a brief kiss, they knew that their hearts now belonged with other people. Unfortunately, Carly saw their kiss and presumed they were getting back together. After being drugged by Faith Rosco's goon, Ric Lansing, her business partner, rescued her only to take advantage of the situation himself. He led her to believe they had had sex. When Carly discovered she was pregnant, she had no idea who the father was. Sonny found out about this, but he and Carly uncovered Ric's treachery and true motivations. He was Sonny's half-brother on his mother's side, who blamed Sonny for her death and had spent his life plotting revenge. Soon after this episode, Ric married Elizabeth Webber and claimed he wanted to end his bad blood with the Corinthos family.
Sonny was thrilled to have a new child on the way, but not as happy to learn that Courtney was dating Jason. After a brief period of anger, he accepted their relationship, and made plans to participate in their wedding. The wedding never went through because Carly was kidnapped. Sonny had no idea who was responsible, but began working with the feds. Soon, he learned that Ric had nabbed Carly and was holding her prisoner in a panic room of his house. By the time he and Jason burst in, Carly was gone. Luis Alcazar's twin brother, Lorenzo, had taken her, and would only release her in return for Sonny letting drugs go through his territory. Sonny agreed, but within a few weeks stormed Lorenzo's yacht to free Carly. The plan worked, until Courtney was taken hostage in exchange. Courtney escaped, but Lorenzo was still not out of their lives, for he had grown obsessed with Carly.
Alcazar tried to romance Carly away from Sonny by sending her gifts. Sonny tried to warn Alcazar away from pursuing his wife, but Alcazar wouldn't quit. Sonny and Carly continued to try and get past Alcazar while Alcazar hatched his own plan to get Carly for himself. He made over a prostitute to look exactly like Lily, Sonny's dead first wife. Alcazar then had "Lily" haunt Sonny and convince Sonny that his wife and child would be hurt because of him unless he left them. Jason plotted to kill Alcazar, for Sonny and for Nicholas, but Stefan beat him to it. But Sonny was floored when Carly admitted to saving Alcazar's life and then keeping it from her husband. Sonny came to believe in Lily's ghost so much that he bought Carly her dream house and told her that she would live there with the boys without him. Carly fought him during the whole process. But when "Lily" slipped up and told Sonny something from their past together that never happened, Sonny realized that it wasn't Lily he had been talking to. On a stormy night, he tried to find Carly, who had gone look at the house by herself. When Sonny finally found out where she was, he raced to the house. As he approached the front door, he heard Carly scream from inside and kicked the door in. He saw Alcazar bent over Carly, so he shot Alcazar in the back. Alcazar fell to the side and Sonny realized that Carly was in labor. He helped her deliver their son, but when he held the baby up for her to see, he realized that the bullet had gone through Alcazar and into Carly's head. She passed out and lapsed into a coma for a few weeks. Sonny stayed by her side as much as possible, but whenever he left, Alcazar came to sit with Carly. This infuriated Sonny and he tried to get Alcazar banned from her room. But the doctors believed that Carly was responding to Alcazar somehow in her coma, so Sonny agreed to let him continue to see Carly. Desperate to protect Carly and his family from further harm, Sonny decided to leave the mob and handed the business to Jason. When Carly finally awoke, Sonny was very relieved. But he didn't realize that Carly wasn't quite herself. While she had been in her coma, she had dreamt of an alternate life with Alcazar starring as her leading man and Sonny as the bad guy wanting to break up her marriage to Alcazar. The dreams were so intense for Carly that they prevented her from feeling the love she once had for Sonny and her children.
Sonny tried his best to be patient with Carly and reconnect with her. He took Carly and the kids to the island where she finally confessed her feelings, or lack there of. When Carly was out of the room, Sonny took off to confront Alcazar. Carly called Jason to stop Sonny and then contacted Alcazar to tell him to get out of town. Instead, Alcazar stayed behind to set Sonny up for attempted murder. Carly arrived on the scene to try to stop Sonny from shooting Alcazar but she was too late. After shooting Alcazar, Sonny ran in front of a car and got the driver, Sam, to get him out of there. Sam drove out of town before finally pulling over. She coaxed Sonny to pour his heart out about Carly and their current situation. Sam sympathized with him and told him not to give up on Carly. When Sonny was arrested, Sam refused to state that she had been kidnapped. As the trial loomed, Carly grew desperate to help Sonny out of the situation she had put him in. She whisked Sonny off to France to begin a life on the run as a fugitive. But Sonny decided he needed to be a good example to their children and went back to Port Charles to face the music. After an emotional testimony by Sonny, the jury found him not guilty. Afterwards, Carly was telling off Alcazar for setting up Sonny when she collapsed. She awoke with her feelings of love for Sonny and her kids fully restored.
With Carly back in good health, Sonny made plans to start taking care of business again, since he never really left the mob. After a particularly hot session of love making, Sonny got on a plane to attend a business meeting. But before the plane could take off, Sam jumped on board as shots were fired at her. She convinced Sonny to take her to Azure Key, a remote island, in exchange for a piece of the treasure she was carrying. He agreed. But after they landed, the pilot informed him they had a fuel leak. Not wanting to risk repairing the plane in his enemy's territory nearby, Sonny and Sam were forced to spend the night in a shack together. Then a hurricane moved in as did a particularly nasty man who had killed Sam's father and come after her because she knew where the treasure was that had belonged to Blackthorn the pirate. When the man attacked Sam, Sonny saved her and shot the guy dead.
