William Foster Abbott
Actor History
Katrin and Margret Ingimarsdottir (July to August 1993; recurring)
Brett Sherman (August to November 1993; recurring)
Shane Silver (December 1993 to August 1995; recurring)
Blake Pontello (1994 to 1995; recurring)
Josh Michael Rose (July 1995 to June 1996; recurring)
Scotty Leavenworth (1996 to 1998; recurring)
David Tom (June 1999 to August 15, 2002; contract)
Ryan Brown (December 26, 2002 to July 26, 2003; contract)
Scott Seymour (August 15, 2006 to November 3, 2006)
Billy J. Miller (September 22, 2008 to present)
Lifeline
Born 1993
Returned from his New York City boarding school in 1999 and was said to be 16
Nicknames
Sonny Crawford (online alias)
Liam
Billy
Occupation
Co-CEO of Jabot Cosmetics
Former CEO of Jabot Cosmetics
Former Jabot Director of Marketing
Former NVP/Jabot Liaison for House of Kim, Hong Kong
Former Business Major at Genoa City University
Worked part time in the mail room at Jabot Cosmetics
Former bartender at Sammy Seagull's Sandpit Bar & Grill in Miami
Worked with Hurricane Katrina reconstruction in New Orleans
Attended one semester at Genoa City University while working part time at the Glo By Jabot Boutique
Spent the summer after high school as volunteer building houses for the poor in Louisiana
Graduate of Walnut Grove Academy
Former "Glo By Jabot Kid" for Jabot Cosmetics
Attending boarding school in New York City
Resides At
The Abbott poolhouse
Marital Status
Married to Chloe Mitchell [married April 3, 2009]
Past Marriages
MacKenzie Browning (annulled)
Relatives
John Abbott (father, deceased)
Jill Foster (mother)
Jack Abbott (paternal half-brother)
Traci Abbott (paternal half-sister)
Phillip Chancellor III AKA Cane Ashby (maternal half-brother)
Robert Abbott (grandfather, deceased)
William Foster (grandfather, via adoption; deceased)
Elizabeth Foster (grandmother, via adoption)
Unknown name (biological grandfather)
Unknown name (biological grandmother)
Greg Foster (uncle; via adoption)
William 'Snapper' Foster (uncle, via adoption)
Jennifer Elizabeth Foster (cousin, via adoption)
Pierre Charles Roulland (cousin, via adoption)
Keemo Volien Abbott (half-nephew)
Kyle Jenkins (half-nephew)
Colleen Cecile Carlton (half-niece)
Abby Carlton (thinks she is his niece)
Phillip Chancellor IV (half-nephew)
Children
Cordelia Katherine Valentine Ashby (daughter; by Chloe)
Flings & Affairs
Brittany Hodges
Mackenzie Browning
Several flings & affairs while working in Hong Kong
Chloe Mitchell
Amber Moore
Lily Winters
Sharon Abbott
Crimes Committed
Underage drinking; charges were dropped
Stole and pawned an antique scrimshaw from the Chancellor estate - Kay agreed not to press charges when the Abbotts shipped him off to Hong Kong instead
Brief Character History
Shortly after her second marriage to John Abbot, Jill wanted to have a baby, though John felt he was too old. But Jill managed to get pregnant, and John insisted she have an abortion while he got a vasectomy. Jill couldn't do it, and gave birth to William "Billy" Abbott, whom John eventually accepted and came to love. Jill's affair with Jed Sanders, due to John's later impotency, caused their second divorce, which resulted in a bitter custody battle over Billy and a stroke for John. Billy grew up in Genoa City with his best friend Raul Guittierez, enjoying sports and Boy Scouts, and got little attnetion from his mother Jill. Once John recovered from his stroke, he and Billy moved to New York City where Billy went to boarding school.
John and Billy returned to Genoa City in time for his sophomore year of high school. Raul, Brittany Hodges, MacKenzie Browning, J.T. Hellstrom, Rianna Miner, and Billy were friends as they attended Walnut Grove Academy. Billy began dating snobby rich girl, Brittany. Billy bragged of his experience in New York City with drinking, partying, and girls. One evening, J.T., another expert partier, invited everyone to a party at a house he was house-sitting. Raul showed up in time to save best friend Billy's life when Billy suffered alcohol poisoning and collapsed in the snow, as neither Brittany nor JT was willing to call 9-1-1 and get themselves in trouble. At that time, MacKenzie and Billy did not get along at all. But she stayed at his bedside and prayed that he would be all right. That was the start of what became a wonderful high school romance.
Billy swore off alcohol after his near-death experience. Then came the Junior Prom. Billy and Brittany were supposed to be a shoe-in, but when the votes were counted, Billy and Mac were crowned King and Queen. Only then, when they danced together at the prom, did they realize how much they cared about each other. Unfortunately Jill noticed too, much to her horror, that her son could be smitten with Katherine Chancellor's granddaughter. Billy showed up at the Chancellors' later, and he and Mac told each other how they felt, and kissed. Jill began threatening to find runaway Mac's mother if she became involved with Billy. So Mac and Billy began meeting in secret in the Abbott children's old playhouse. He gave her an opal ring to seal their love.
Billy, Brittany, Raul, and Rianna were chosen as the Glo by Jabot Kids as a promotion for the new Jabot teen line. Mac assisted Phyllis Summers running the website featuring the kids. Brittany discovered that Billy was involved with Mac, so arranged for Mac to walk in on her and Billy "making love." Billy was drugged and Britt was faking it, but Mac believed what she saw and it broke her heart. Billy tried to defend himself, but couldn't remember what happened. Local bad boy, J.T., spilled it that it was setup for Mac to see, but no one realized that Billy was drugged. Brittany was hurt, but eventually took Billy back. Raul realized Mac was not the one who had her heart, and split up with Mac, moving on to Rianna. Mac and Billy began being drawn to each other again, but it wasn't until Jack arranged for Billy and Mac to be trapped in an elevator at Jabot that they realized that they truly belonged together. Although Billy did his best to be a jerk to turn Mac away "for her own good," they eventually reconciled and became a couple again. Jill made peace with it, once she realized what a bad choice Britt was for Billy.
Things went fine for Billy and MacKenzie for several months. He helped her admit that she ran away from St. Louis because her stepfather Ralph had molested her, and her mother wouldn't believe it. Senior year began, and a holiday series of the Glo by Jabot website added J.T. and Mac to the Glow Kids. The scene changed to Jabot where a boutique opened, which was run by the kids. Billy's niece, Colleen, was falling into drugs and hanging with the wrong kids in New York City, so she was banished to her grandfather John's in Genoa City. Billy helped his father by keeping an eye on her at school.
After the holidays, Billy realized that he was ready for more from his relationship with MacKenzie. When he shared his feelings with her, he tried to avoid pressuring her, but couldn't accept her insistence that she was not ready and should wait. As a result, the two of them broke up. They got over the trauma and became friends. Then Mac's stepfather, Ralph, showed up in Genoa City and began stalking her. He coerced Mac's mom, Amanda, into helping him steal from the Chancellor Estate. Amanda let him into the mansion while all were at the prom, but Mac returned home unexpectedly and, much to her horror, was met by Ralph. Billy arrived on the scene as Ralph was about to molest Mac again, confronted him, and whacked Ralph over the head with a fireplace poker. Thinking he had killed Ralph, Billy took Mac to hide out in their special place, the old Abbott playhouse. Thinking they were doomed, Billy and Mac realized they still loved each other. Ralph kidnapped Kay after she returned from chaperoning at the prom, and tied her up in a motel room. Ralph, disguised as a cop, talked Raul into telling him places where he might find Billy and Mac. Meanwhile Larry Warton found and rescued Kay. Ralph showed up at the playhouse too late, but found the kids at a campsite where Raul and Billy used to play as kids. Ralph knocked out Billy by whacking him over the head with a rock and grabbed Mac, but our hero Larry showed up in time to rescue her. Larry and Ralph fought, and just before the police arrived, both ended up going over a cliff to the lakeshore below. The next morning, Ralph came to and tried to kill an unconscious Larry with a rock. Scared away by the arrival of the police, Ralph disappeared into the bushes. Larry recovered with minor injuries and major thanks from Billy's mother Jill for saving her son's life. Because Jill had video evidence that Amanda had stolen her jewels, and after nearly getting both her own daughter and Jill's son killed, Amanda agreed to leave town if Jill would drop the charges.
After all he went through that summer, Billy decided he needed to do more with his life than go to college, so he left for Louisiana to help Mac's father, Brock, build houses for the poor. He and his mother Jill shared a tearful parting, although Jill felt he was making a mistake. Mac and Billy parted tearfully as well, declaring their love and promising each other this was not the end of them. Mac left Genoa City that fall to attend Northwestern University. Both Billy and Mac returned to Genoa City for Christmas, and decided to attend GCU and share a loft apartment with Raul and Brittany. By spring Billy had proposed and Mac and Billy were to be married with Raul Gutierrez as best man and Colleen Carlton as maid of honor. But with the reveal that Billy's mother Jill's actual birth mother was Katherine Chancellor, their lives were shattered when they realized they were cousins. Mac and Billy both left town on their own, devastated by the news.
Billy spent a year working on the Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery in New Orleans, then some time as a bartender at Sammy Seagull's Sandpit Bar & Grill in Miami. He returned to Genoa City in 2006 to attend his father John's funeral. Jill and Katherine encouraged him to stay and claim his legacy as both a Chancellor and an Abbott by learning the business of Chancellor Industries and Jabot Cosmetics. Billy relented and began attending GCU as a business major and working his way up at Jabot from the mailroom. It turned out that Billy had a bad gambling habit, and that he still owed some bookies in Miami a lot of money, so when no one would give him any, he stole and pawned an antique scrimshaw from the Chancellor estate. Kay discovered it and told Jill and Jack, so they gave him a job as NVP/Jabot Liaison for House of Kim, and shipped him off to Hong Kong.
Billy returned in 2008 as "Liam", the mystery-lover of Amber Moore who showed up on her arm at Daniel Romalotti's art showing in New York City. Billy says he uses the name Liam to pick up chicks, is over his gambling addiction, and travels the world, often to Los Angeles where he hangs out with the stars. Much to Daniel’s distaste, Billy proceeded to buy all the Amber drawings which had not already sold. Daniel, still not over Amber and never a fan of Billy, is concerned that he is a player and will break her heart.
Chloe told Cane that her father rejected her mother before she was born. She had this worn dirty stuffed giraffe named Elmer she carried around until her mother changed out her room when she became a teen throwing out everything she loved, replacing it with a white bear. She told how she was stuck in boarding school and was ashamed of her mother being a maid. She had legally changed her name before her arrival in Genoa City. Cane is mostly tolerating Chloe and still pining for Lily. Chloe told Ester she would never get over her resentment for being shipped off to boarding school all her life, but Esther said she did it for her own good, so she wouldn't end up like her. Chloe told her that a guy who was selfish, arrogant, and unfaithful broke her heart (obviously Billy) and she would never love anyone else again, including Cane. From flashbacks it is obvious that Billy is the father of Chloe’s baby and that she set up their first meeting in New York City. They had an affair, she got into his email, discovered that he cheated on her breaking her heart, then she stalked him. Yet Billy was still her occasional “bootycall” up until she discovered she was pregnant.
Billy reunited with his mother Jill and finally met her other son, his half-brother Cane. Billy's other half-brother Jack convinced him to move back to Genoa City and help him get Jabot back into the Abbott family, and get back at Cane for usurping his life, by going to work at Jabot again. Cane invited Billy and "his girlfriend" over for drinks to get to know him and his wife Chloe, unaware that his ex-wife Amber was Billy's girlfriend, and that Chloe has a past with Billy. Billy confronted Chloe the next day accusing her of just wanting to bag a Chancellor. Billy tried to convince Cane that he didn't mind that Cane took over Jabot, and Cane talked Billy into taking the Director of Marketing position, with emphasis on the new teen line Starblaze.
Meanwhile Katherine was having some recurring memory loss, but covering it up pretty well. Gloria took advantage, pulling tricks to convince Kay she was losing it, in an attempt to get enough of Kay's Jabot stock to have controlling interest. Luckily Jill caught and stopped them, just as Kay was signing over the stock. Esther, Cane, and Jill are wondering if Kay is still capable of driving, let alone overseeing Chancellor and Jabot even with Jill and Cane in charge of each. Kay responded to Jill’s taking away her keys by drinking again - or so we thought. Turns out it was Marge, Kay's doppelganger, back again needing help from Kay to get off the sauce. Jeffrey spotted Marge drunk and assumed it was Kay. Kay got $75,000 in cash from the bank to get Marge into rehab, but on her way was waylaid by Jill and a Chancellor lawyer who forced Kay to get checked out for her memory problems. While waiting for the doctor, Kay showed Nikki how bad she gets by referring to Nikki’s dead husband David as though he were still alive. After seeing the doctor, Kay talked them into giving her another day to check into the hospital so that she could secretly help Marge, then disappeared. Jeff convinced Gloria, Nikki and Esther that Kay was drinking again. Actually Kay was secretly taking Marge to rehab, but they were in a bad car accident on the way. Kay was thrown clear, but Marge was found dead in the car by Nikki and Jill who were out looking for Kay. Not knowing about Marge's reappearance, they assumed it was Kay's body. A funeral was held, and several people from Kay's past attended; her son Brock, her late grandson Phillip's wife Nina, her step-son and daughter Danny and Gina, her attorney Mitchell, and her old friends Liz Foster, Traci and Ashley, and Dina Mergeron. Daniel sketched a picture of Kay which was framed on her casket. Meanwhile Marge's friend Murphy found Kay lying beside a creek, assumed it was Marge, and after she refused to go to a hospital, took her home with him to his trailer house. Kay's injuries were slight, but she is confused now about who she is, trying to fit into what Murphy tells her of Marge the waitress with the drinking problem.
Kay's will was read, and Brock received one percent of her billion-dollar-plus worth in trust to continue his good works and was named Chairman of the Chancellor Foundation. Her step-children Gina and Danny received a one-half of one percent in cash. Esther received one tenth of one percent and Kay’s half of the estate, so that Esther could live her life in financial freedom. Nikki received all of Katherine's jewelry, including a family heirloom emerald and diamond ring given to Kay by her mother. Grandchildren Cane, Billy, McKenzie, and Phillip received one-quarter of one percent in trust. Katherine left one fifth of one percent to Amber, so that she and Daniel could pursue their artistic goals, and gave Amber the sole rights to her memoirs, which Jill had forbidden her to publish. Jill was left the remainder of the assets, all but five percent of Kay's Jabot stock. That five percent, in addition to a Ming vase, was left to Gloria as both were given to her by John Abbott. Jill was livid, knowing that the Chancellors now were no longer majority stockholders.
A Jabot shareholders meeting was called, and to Jill’s shock, Gloria and Jeff Bardwell and Billy Abbott, with the majority of Jabot shares and proxies from Traci and Ashley, announced their takeover. Jack was present, and Jill reminded them that he was still legally banned from having anything to do with Jabot. Total confusion about who was now in charge was calmed when Ashley Abbott arrived and announced that she was once again the rightful CEO of Jabot.
Cane and Chloe began getting along well in anticipation of their baby. But one day Lily came by, and during an argument with Chloe, Chloe fell from a ladder and had to be taken to the hospital. Her baby was OK, but she was confined to bed-rest with rare occasions on her feet. During her hospitalization, Billy got a nurse to admit the due date was incorrect, and realized that he was the father, but said nothing to Chloe.
Billy found out that Lily Winters was trying computer dating, so he became a guy online who called himself Sonny Crawford, whom Lily became quite enamored with. They finally met, and Lily was shocked, then thrilled that Sonny was Billy.
Jeffrey, Jill, and Jack each wooed Gloria (in jail for product tampering at Jabot) to sell her Jabot shares and they would drop the charges, but she sold them to Victor Newman instead. Ever plotting against Jack Abbott, Victor offered Jabot to Jill if she would seat Billy Abbott as CEO, and all the Abbotts could stay on board. Jill accepted the offer and justified Billy's appointment to Cane because he was an Abbott.
Lily and Billy were getting serious so they went up to the Abbott cabin at Twin Lakes to be alone. But Billy felt he had to confess to Lily about Chloe's baby before going any further. Lily was shocked and accused Billy of plotting with Chloe to break up her and Cane. About that time Chloe walked in the door of the cabin, and before she could join the conversation, went into labor. Unable to drive out due to a storm, Billy had to turn and deliver his daughter while being talked through it by Olivia on Lily's cell phone. Then Cane showed up after walking in past the road blocks, intending to tell Lily he loved and wanted her no matter what. The baby was fine, but Chloe was hemorrhaging and passing out, so they constructed a litter and carried her and the baby down to the waiting ambulance. Later in the hospital, Cane started asking questions about why they were at the cabin, and Lily threatened Billy that he'd better step up, tell Cane and claim his daughter. Billy went off to get drunk in a bar while Chloe almost died from blood loss and septicemia. Billy's brother Jack gave him good advice to fess up, confiscated his car keys, and left. Then Sharon showed up, also drunk, so the two of them hooked up and spent the night together in her room at the athletic club. The next day, Chloe confessed to Cane that her baby was not his, and Billy walked in to verify that he was the reluctant father. Cane exploded at them, including Lily for not telling him after she found out the night before. Cane shouted at them all, that the baby was his and he was not going to give her up. Later Cane signed the birth certificate naming himself the father and the baby Cordelia Katherine Valentine Ashby.
Chloe admitted to Ester that the baby was not Cane's. Then when Billy showed up, Esther realized he was Cordelia's father. Unknown to them, Cane contacted Michael to get custody of Cordelia, and Billy contacted Rafe to see what his rights were too. Since Cane was divorcing Chloe and they had nowhere to go, Esther brought Chloe and her granddaughter home to the estate, and Jill offered them space in her wing so she could be closer to her granddaughter. After slugging Billy when he showed up at the estate to see Cordelia, Cane explained the situation to Neil, then asked Lily how she would feel about marrying him and raising Cordelia together. Cane and Lily reunited, and Cane had Chloe served with full custody papers. Meanwhile Billy, who was supposed to be the doting father living with Chloe and Cordelia, was having an affair with his brother Jack's not-yet-divorced-wife Sharon. After Chloe realized he was with another woman when she needed him, she moved back into the Chancellor estate with her mother. Phyllis caught Sharon and Billy together and threatened to tell Jack and Nick about their affair. Sharon broke down, phoned Billy, and called things off. Jack arrived and she fell into his arms, ashamed and troubled. Jack asked her to come back to him, and would forgive her anything. Sharon asked him to just keep her safe from the rest of the world, and Jack promised he would. They made love and Sharon moved back in with Jack. Meanwhile, Billy showed up with flowers for Chloe and smooth-talked her into giving him another chance. But Nick and Noah were both perplexed with her flakiness when only days later Sharon inexplicably decided to move back to the club.
Jill informed Billy that she was replacing him with Cane as Jabot CEO due to his lack of maturity, although Billy could still be in charge of Jabot's international sales division, but Billy quit on the spot, and told Jill that she would never see Delia again. Cane was thrilled when Jill told him she was reappointing him to the CEO position at Jabot. Later, Jill fired Jack and Ashley, telling them they were living in the past and unable to embrace new ideas. Jack told Ashley not to worry, once Katherine was proven alive she would reinstate them, and she did.
After spending the night before with Sharon, Billy married Chloe to be able to fight Cane for custody of Cordelia. Jack was best man, and having no available friends, Chloe asked Sharon to stand up for her. Sharon accepted, but couldn't look Billy in the eye and do it, so Colleen took her place. Just as the ceremony ended, because Brock let her know that Katherine was alive, Mac showed up at the Chancellor mansion. Meanwhile in the next room, the results of Brock's blood test proved that he was Kay's son, and that Jill was not Katherine's daughter after all, which meant that Billy and Mac were not related either. Their reactions to the news made it quite obvious that both have never gotten over each other. Chloe concerned for her marriage now that Mac is staying on in Genoa City to help Kay get back into her old life. Just prior to the hearing, Cane dropped the custody suit so Cordelia would never grow up without a mother like he did.
Eighty year old Katherine married Patrick “Murph” Murphy in the Chancellor garden in a service officiated by her son Brock. Nina showed up in time to catch Jill arriving drunk, and locked her in a closet before she could make a scene. Lauren arrived soon after, and let Jill out, but Cane made her sit down and shut up during the ceremony. But afterward Billy and Cane had to drag Jill out while she raved at Kay. Later, Mac resisted Billy’s advances, and when he grabbed and kissed her, she slapped him. Chloe saw it, kissed his smarting cheek, and took him home.
Billy was at odds with Jack, went looking for a position at Newman but found none, then Jack asked him to be Co-CEO of Jabot, and he accepted. Billy was upset when Cane bought his favorite escape, Jimmy’s Bar, but was elated when he hired Mac as a waitress, and began spending even more time there, avoiding Chloe. Billy keeps lamenting about their missed opportunity for happiness, and Mac keeps reminding him they have both moved on.
On Memorial Day 2009, Kay and Murphy threw a bar-b-q around the Chancellor pool with Esther, Billy, Chloe & Delia, Mac, Amber, Nina, and Jack in attendance. Later Sharon, Neil & Tyra, Kevin & Jana arrived. Raul Guittierez surprised everyone when he walked in. After reuniting with Billy and being introduced to Kay's new husband Murphy, Billy's new wife Chloe and their baby, Mac walked in and they embraced and passionately kissed. Mac had earlier revealed that there was someone she worked with in Darfur, Africa, and their year long relationship was "serious, but didn't work out" - and it turned out to be Raul. After Billy reluctantly gave them his blessing, Raul asked Mac to marry him and return to Washington DC with him. Billy and Chloe went home, and Billy was obviously distraught and they fought.
After Phyllis overheard Sharon tell Nick she was pregnant, she lambasted Jack for letting this happen. Because Sharon said that Jack knew everything and he forgave her, she asked Jack how he could forgive Billy being one of the possible fathers. Jack was shocked and later attacked Billy for it. Sharon admitted to Jack that Billy may be the third possibility of father of her baby. Jack was understanding and loving even though it ruined his relationship with his brother, that he wants her and the baby no matter whose baby it is. Sharon made an appointment for a paternity test.
But the more time Mac spent with Billy, the more she doubted her future with Raul. Chloe saw this coming and got Raul to return from DC, but it was only for Mac to tell him she was sorry, but the engagement was off. Billy and Mac were about to make love when Chloe interrupted with the news that the paternity test on Sharon's baby was about to come back. Mac did not take the news well that Billy might be a father to his brother's wife’s child, and left. Sharon got the paternity test results back and was ecstatic that she and Nick are expecting the daughter Faith that Cassie predicted on her death bed and in Nick's dream. But after seeing Nick so distraught over his daughter Summer being in a coma, she realized that he needed to be there for Summer and Phyllis, and not run off with her like he did over Cassie, so she told everyone her baby was Jack's.
