Victor Adam Wilson
AKA: Victor Adam Newman
Actor History
Celest and Coryn Williams (1994 - 1995)
Danielle and Sabrina Hepler (1994 - 1995)
Spencer Klaas (1995)
Hayden Tank (1996 - 1998) (1 episode 2002)
Chris Engen (February 12th, 2008 to present)
Nicknames
Adam
Vic
Lifeline
Born in 1995
Returned in 2008 and was said to be 27 years of age.
Occupation
Unemployed
Former Executive at Newman Enterprises
Former Wallstreet Stockbroker with Keller-Stuart
Former Real Estate Agent selling condos in Williamsburg
Harvard Business School masters degree, graduated 2nd in his class
Bachelor's degree at Northwestern University
Resides At
Lives with Heather at Genoa City Athletic Club
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
Unknown
Relatives
Hope Adams Wilson (mother, deceased)
Victor Christian Newman (father)
Cliff Wilson (adoptive father, deceased)
Nicholas Newman (half-brother)
Noah Newman (nephew, son of Nick)
Summer Newman (niece, daughter of Nick & Phyllis)
Victoria Newman Hellstrom (half-sister)
Reed Newman Hellstrom (nephew, son of Victoria & JT)
Children
Unknown
Flings & Affairs
Beth [last name unknown]
Skye Lockhart
Heather Stevens
Crimes Committed
Unknown
Brief Character History
In 1993, Victor was blasted by Nikki, Ashley and teenaged Victoria, all resenting the control he tried to exert in their lives, so he left town. During his trip, Victor was robbed of his wallet, jewelry, and car. After his car was found with a body inside burned beyond recognition and wearing his jewelry, word reached Genoa City that Victor was dead. But Victor turned up at the Kansas farm of the blind Hope Adams just in time to rescue her from a rapist. Hope was strong and independent, but she needed help and protection alone on her farm. Back in Genoa City a power struggle for control of Newman Enterprises quickly erupted between Jack, Brad and Ashley, while Nikki and Victoria were grieving over Victor's death. Jack gained control of Newman Enterprises, regained CEO of Jabot and made Brad head of Newman. When Victor heard the news, he returned to Genoa City, where he learned from his pal, Douglas, that everyone thought he was dead. After overhearing a conversation between Nikki and his children, Victor mistakenly believed that no one missed him, asked Douglas not to reveal the truth, and headed back to Kansas. Victor's life on the farm was a seldom-seen look at the tender side of Victor Newman. He became a kind and gentle man who was content to live there as a farm hand, growing closer to Hope. Victor's presence created a dilemma for Hope. She was attracted to him, but she accepted a marriage proposal from her longtime friend, Cliff Wilson. Finding their wedding plans underway, Victor arranged to return home for good. When Hope learned of Victor's plans, she told Cliff that she couldn't marry him. Soon after, Hope accompanied Victor back to Genoa City.
Everyone was stunned that Victor was still alive. Nikki was relieved because she continued to have strong feelings for Victor. However, she felt threatened by Hope's presence. Nikki suggested to Hope that Victor was helping her out of gratitude for the kindness that she had shown him in Kansas. Feeling out of place and worried that she was interfering in Victor's relationship with his family, Hope headed back to her farm. When Victor found out, he returned to Kansas once more.
Hope revealed to Victor that she had never been with a man sexually. Soon after, she and Victor made love. When Victor proposed marriage to her, Hope accepted and they returned to Genoa City engaged. Nikki was so distraught by the news that she crashed their wedding and made a spectacle of herself. Nikki considered reconciling with Jack, but he surprised her by announcing that he was ready to file for divorce. Meanwhile, Hope learned that she was pregnant. Victor and Hope were forced to do some serious soul-searching when her doctor said the baby could inherit her blindness. When medical tests revealed that there was a good chance the baby would be born blind, Victor urged Hope to have an abortion, but she resisted, and the tension in their marriage escalated. Frustrated by Victor's remote behavior, Hope returned to her farm in Kansas after she received word that Cliff had been injured in a farming accident. While Cliff recuperated, Hope extended her stay. Victor's friend, Douglas Austin, arrived at the farm and pressured Hope to return to Victor. During their argument, Hope accidentally tripped over a chair and had to be rushed to the hospital. Victor arrived to make sure Hope was okay, then returned home. The next day, Hope gave birth to Victor Adam Newman Jr. To Victor's disappointment, Hope decided to stay in Kansas and raise their son on her farm. She asked him to stay out of their child's life so he could be raised without the Newman influences, and they were later divorced.
In 1996, as Victor recovered from a gunshot wound, his near-death experience prompted him to reevaluate his life. He left Genoa City for several weeks and visited Hope on her farm in Kansas, where she was now married to Cliff. Cliff had adopted Victor Jr., and his name was changed to Victor Adam Wilson. Victor enjoyed spending time with his son, a straight-A student who loved all sports, but Cliff made it clear that the boy thought Cliff was his father. Victor returned to Genoa City and began spending time with Nikki, who assumed that they were finally about to reconcile. When Victor received word that Cliff had been struck by a drunk driver, he quickly returned to Kansas to lend Hope support. Hope was grief-stricken when Cliff died. Nikki misunderstood Victor's reasons for leaving her, and she resolved to break off with him. She became involved with her gynecologist, Josh Landers, who said that he was a widower. When Josh proposed marriage, Nikki impulsively accepted and they eloped to Las Vegas. Victor tried to stop the marriage, but arriving back from Kansas too late, he decided not to tell Nikki that he was still in love with her. Eventually, Victor persuaded Hope to relocate to Genoa City with their son. Victor had the Penthouse and especially its kitchen redone especially for Hope to be able to get around there though blind, but once out of their home, she was a fish-out-of-water in the big city. And Victor got involved in Newman Enterprises, leaving her alone more and more. He even paid her old Kansas friend Betty to come live with them to help Hope feel at home. But Hope was proud and independent, always wanting to go out on her own, and more than once her purse was stolen or she nearly got assaulted.
In 2006 Victor's was diagnosed with epilepsy, Nikki was informed, and he was given medication. But he liked the affects of the mini seizures that made him feel uncharacteristically mellow and caring, so he quit taking his medication. He shut off his cell phone and told the family he was going on a trip that landed him in Kansas at Hope's farm once again. Hope welcomed him, and informed him that his son was at soccer camp. Victor stayed on awhile, helping Hope out around the farm and feeling free, happy, and content like he was when they first met there many years ago. One day Hope came in to find Victor on the floor having a seizure, but being blind did not realize it. Victor came out of it in time to fool her that he had fallen, then left to continue his spiritual journey, unaware that his family at home was in crisis. Some time later Nikki called Hope, looking for her husband, and Hope informed her that he had gone to a monastery in India.
In May 2007 while Victor was mourning the supposed death of this son Nick, Hope phoned Victor to let him know that their son was missing and had been hanging out with a bad crowd. Victor traced him to Columbia, but he'd disappeared without payint his rent. Victor then traced him to Sri Lanka, went there, and disappeared for quite some time. When Victor returned, he told those who asked that he had not found his son.
In early 2008, Hope contacted Victor that she was terminal with carcinoma of the pancreas, and he sent specialists to try to save her. But by February Hope called him to come to her in Kansas. He arrived to find her recently released from the hospital, having asked to be sent home to die. It was her last wish that Victor be united with his son who was going by the name Vic, feeling he finally needed to be told that Victor was his father. Vic arrived, now 27 years old, and was shocked to see his mother's condition, then appeared further shocked and disbelieving when she gave him the news of his paternity. Victor started to get to know his son through Hope on her deathbed. She described Vic to Victor as independant like his father, yet sensitive and vulnerable. Vic told Victor how he secured his own scholarships to attend Harvard Business School, but still has student loans to pay off. Then he attended Harvard Grad School where he wrote his thesis on Victor Newman's rise in the business world, and that he had read the books on Victor's life. Vic said he was a stockbroker living in New York City, and his passion is business and he firmly believes in following one's passion. Vic and Victor were devastated when Hope passed away only days later. Her death wish was for Victor and Vic to stay together. Before they parted in Kansas, Victor offered his son a job at Newman, but he turned him down.
Vic suddenly showed up in Victor's office, accepted a job, and asked to be called Adam so there will be less confusion and that the wrong message wasn't sent. His first assignment was to work with Victoria on the Beauty of Nature project. He is flaunting his Harvard education and superior work ethic in Victoria, Nick and Neil's faces, going over Victoria's head with decisions, and hitting on Nick's wife Phyllis, leaving everyone guessing at Adam's agenda. Victoria eventually quit Newman due to the friction with her father and with Adam usurping her position, and went to work for her mother at Jabot. The day after Sabrina accepted Victor's marriage proposal, Adam accepted Victor's offer to move to the ranch to get to know him better, and moved in. Sabrina was not thrilled with this idea, as she and Adam did not get along since each thought the other was an opportunist, but they have bonded nicely since.
As the new Chief Operations Officer of Jabot, Brad felt David was ill suited for the co-CEO position, and began to hatch a plan to get David to gamble once again. Brad began setting him up with his bookie to lose bets, holding impromptu poker nights at his place, and lending David money. One of the card sharks who played in the game turned out to be Adam's college friend, first in their class to Adam's second, and sometimes-lover Skye Lockhart. When Skye was in town, she would hook up with Adam, then take David Chow for a lot of money.
Adam faltered in his latest Newman acquisition of Natural Glow, not discovering it happened to be involved in a lawsuit with Jabot for patent infringement. Victor was livid with his new golden child, causing Newman and Jabot to got to battle once again. The night before their meeting with attorneys hoping for a settlement, Adam met Heather Stevens working out at the GC Athletic Club, they clicked and he ended up spending the night. Imagine their surprise when they met again at that meeting where Heather represented Jabot. Heather and Adam became secret lovers due to this conflict of interest.
After many discarded ideas, Victor and Sabrina decided to get married in an old barn near the ranch, and Victor had it cleaned up and decorated beautifully for the occasion. Since Victoria and Nick were still on the outs with them, Victoria turned down Sabrina's offer to be her matron of honor, and Adam was asked to be best man without Victor even consulting Nick. Sabrina, unable to get any of her other friends abroad to come, chose her new assistant Jana Hawkes as her maid of honor. Victor's daughter Abby and Nick's daughter Summer were adorable as flower girls. The day before the wedding, much to her displeasure, Sabrina's estranged mother Zara showed up. Nick attended the wedding, and although she tried not to go, Victoria, JT, and baby Reed showed up just as the bride was walking down the aisle. Victoria caught Zara taking photos of the wedding to sell to the media, and she managed to get the memory card out of the camera to foil her plans. Victor and Sabrina left for Paris on their honeymoon where Victor bought her a chateau. Back in GC, Adam caught Zara taking a video tour of the ranch to sell, stopped her and later kindly ushered into a limo and onto a plane with a one way ticket back home.
Adam and Victor were bonding so well as father and son, that Adam took him up on his offer and moved into the main house at the ranch. He and Sabrina clashed at first but they became close due to their similar outcast circumstances. Assuming Nick was in on the scandalous article about Sabrina printed in Restless Style and for Victoria’s turning against Sabrina for marrying her father, Victor cut them both out of his will as he added Adam and Sabrina.
The 2008 Charity Gala, organized this year by Sabrina and Victoria under the watchful eye of Kay Chancellor, was in full swing with all the Genoa City regulars attending in cocktail party attire. Devon and Ana entertained singing with a chorus. Chloe chose the occasion to announce her pregnancy by Cane just as Cane was proposing to Lily. Adam left Heather on the patio for a moment when mobster Walter tried to hit on her. Nikki and David were playing the happy couple one last time before Nikki filed for divorce. Victor told Sabrina he would send a limo for her, when he left with Michael to meet with Phillipe at the ranch to confirm or deny the story about him and Sabrina. While David was spiking Nikki’s drink with enough morphine to kill her, Phillipe was telling Victor the story as he told it to Jack Abbott not Korbel for the article. Paul and JT figured out that David had mob ties and feared for Nikki’s safety, arrived just in time to take the drugged Nikki to the hospital. Meanwhile David searched for Nikki, gave up and waited for his limo at the front door. Sabrina was there waiting for her own but was not feeling well and begged David to share his limo to be dropped off at Newman ranch on his way home. David relented, noticed the driver was not the one who dropped them off, but called them Mr. and Mrs. Newman. Eight miles down the road another car ran them off the road and the limo crashed, killing the driver instantly, and injuring both David and Sabrina seriously. Victor was notified by Michael that David and Nikki’s limo had been involved in a serious accident, and Victor went to the crash site. David was still being worked on by paramedics, and “Mrs. Newman” had already been transported to the hospital. Victor had flashbacks of the happy times with Nikki, thinking she could possibly be dying. Then he noticed Sabrina’s earring in the limo and it dawned on him which Mrs. Newman was in jeopardy. He climbed out of the wrecked limo and accosted David Chow, demanding to know if Sabrina was with him and why. But David was too far gone, and later died. Victor rushed to the hospital to find Sabrina in a near death state. He refused to believe she would die and demanded Michael order specialists, dialysis machines, and organ donors to save her. The family was there to support Nikki who came out of the morphine overdose just fine. Once they heard about Sabrina, Nick and Victoria tried to see her but Victor kept them at bay. Eventually Victoria, who after discovering the lies that Jack Abbott put into the article needed to let Sabrina know that she was wrong about her and ask her forgiveness. Although she did get to see her and they had a nice chat about old times enjoyed together, she never did get to tell Sabrina she was sorry before Sabrina died alone after asking Victor to get her some ice chips. After her death Victor was left alone to say goodbye. When Nikki showed up at the door Victor attacked her, accusing her of bringing David Chow into their lives and causing Sabrina’s death. He spat in her face that he wished it was Nikki in there dead, not Sabrina. Nikki was taken home by Nick and had a scary dream where David came to her and evilly told her what a fool he’d made of her, and showed her Sabrina and the child whose death she had caused!
Victor left guests waiting at Sabrina's funeral only to have the minister tell them that the funeral a private funeral had been held earlier and her body was already interred. Victor disappeared, leaving his cell phone, wallet and epilepsy medication buried on Sabrina's grave. Adam in his concern, decided to change his name to Victor Newman. He was also upset because his friend Skye was missing. Then a body was found chopped up and buried in the stable where Nikki kept her horse, along side was the classring of Adam's that she wore around her neck. So it was assumed that David Chow had murdered her in retaliation for her taking so much money from him gambling. Meanwhile in Victor’s absence, the stockholders at Newman voted Victoria back in as CoCEO, and because the ranch was part of Newman Enterprises, she took it upon herself to kick Adam out.
Paul traced Victor to Bucerias, Mexico, where he had been hanging out in a cantina awaiting the arrival of Walter Palen, AKA mobster Tony Amato, the man he held responsible for Sabrina's death. Paul and Nikki went there to find Victor, but Paul had to return when his daughter Heather had a medical emergency. Nikki went off the wagon in her grief after the authorities told her that Victor had been declared dead when his fishing boat broke up in a storm. Later a body washed up onshore, but Nikki did not let on that she recognized him as Walter.
A drunken Nikki called Katherine and told her that Victor was dead. Kay tried to keep her on the line while she called Nick on another phone. Adam reacted to the news by requesting the Mexican government FAX him a death certificate. Michael took charge and read the will which gave Newman Enterprises and the ranch to Adam. Nick was given the Restless Style building free and clear, and Victoria the Newman art collection. Abby and grandchildren Noah and Summer and any future grandchildren were given a percentage of the estate. Letters written to his children were later read in private. Victor wrote to Nick that he was a disappointment, but that he was hard on him to make him tough. Victor apologized for not being a good father, saying he was proud of Nick, the best father his kids could hope for. Victor wrote to Adam that he was most like himself and encouraged him to make him proud but to be generous to his brother and sister. To Victoria he wrote of love and adoration, that she was best parts of him and the very soul of Newman. Adam threw away his letter, had Heather move in with him at the ranch, declared himself Victor Newman Jr., took charge at Newman by firing Neil and hiring Brad.
Nikki, still in Mexico, walked the beach pitifully wailing for Victor, and collapsing in the sand. When she looked up, there he was, alive and very upset with her for being there. He told her to go home, that he wanted the world to think he was dead. In response to her declaration that she still loved him, he replied that he wished one of them had the guts to kill the other to put them out or their misery. Nikki returned to Genoa City. Not long afterward Victor returned and Michael filled him in on what had happened in his absence. Victor summoned his children and Neil to the ranch. First he fired Adam and made Neil CEO of Newman, then told Adam to live elsewhere and his things would be sent to him. Neil later asked Victoria to return to Newman at her father’s suggestion. Nick and Victoria were thrilled to see their father alive, but although he forgave them for their treatment of Sabrina and thanked them for their actions when they thought he was dead, he was still cold to them and asked them to leave him in his seclusion to heal. Then Victor got Zapato from the kennel where Adam had banished him, fired all the help, made a nation-wide statement to leave him alone, and hired security guards to keep everyone away. Even Nikki had to smash a window to try to talk to him. Adam was roughed up by the guards and taken off to jail trying to see him. Jack had no luck even threatening to publish the photos of Sabrina unconscious and bloody at the accident scene. Victor did allow in his old friend Katherine, heard her out, then asked her to leave. After weeks of Victor being a recluse at the ranch, Nick heard music coming from Sabrina’s art gallery and found Victor there passed out due dehydration. The family was turned away at the hospital by a surly Victor, and they were about to have him committed for his own safety, but he managed to disappear, and was last seen flying away on the Newman jet. To revive confidence in Newman, Neil hired Nick back part time as an advisor.
Adam approached Cane for a job at Jabot, but was turned down. Even his contacts back in New York City suddenly wanted nothing to do with him. When all else failed, he hooked up with Jack to take on Victor, who Jack feels screwed him over again by helping Nick buy them out. Together they went to Bucerias, Mexico, looking for information on what really happened to Victor there, and returned knowing that the dead man from the boat was named Tony Amato. Adam showed Heather the photo of the dead man in Mexico, and she recognized him as Walter Palin AKA Tony Amato, the man responsible for Sabrina and David’s deaths. After Adam filled her in on what they found out in Mexico, Heather contacted the Mexican authorities and agreed to work with them to find Victor. Adam and Jack found a publisher for a tell-all book about Victor from the point of view of his long lost son Adam, but he wanted Victor's diary they had told him about. The diary they found in Mexico actually contained only a few comments written by Victor, so Jack hired a counterfeiter from Chicago to complete it in their own words. Jack set Adam up by using Adam’s cell phone to call the guy, then begged off their meeting, leaving Adam to do the deed. To top it off, Heather spotted Adam and the counterfeiter and recognized him as someone she prosecuted in Chicago for stock fraud. Adam covered well, saying he was a guy he met at an interview who was giving him some tips on places to look for a job.
