Ethan Ashby
Born: Phillip Chancellor III
Actor History
Daniel Goddard (January 12th, 2007 - Present)
Lifeline
Born December 25, 1976
Phillip returned from boarding school in 1986 said to be 16.
Cane returned in 2007 at age 31.
Cane told Amber he was born two days before Christmas 1976
Nicknames
Cane
Hurricane
Occupation
CEO of Jabot Cosmetics
Former Vice President of Jabot Cosmetics
Director of Acquisitions for Chancellor Industries
Former Clear Springs Construction Manager for Chancellor Industries
Former Bartender at Indigo
Former Skip Tracer
Formerly worked in construction
Resides At
Bought a house he shares with Chloe Mitchell
Marital Status
Engaged to Chloe Mitchell
Past Marriages
Amber Moore (illegal) [Married February 22, 2007 - Dissolved August, 2007]
Relatives
Phillip Chancellor II (father; deceased)
Jill Foster (mother)
William Foster Abbott (half-brother)
Phillip Chancellor I (grandfather; deceased)
William Foster Sr. (grandfather; via adoption)
Elizabeth Foster Brooks (grandmother; via adoption)
William 'Snapper' Foster (uncle; via adoption)
Greg Foster (uncle; via adoption)
Jennifer Elizabeth Foster (cousin; via adoption)
Pierre Charles Roulland (cousin; via adoption)
Arthur Hendricks (biological grandfather)
Katherine Shepard (biological grandmother)
Brock Reynolds (biological uncle)
Mackenzie Browning (biological cousin)
Violet Montgomery (adoptive mother) (deceased)
Langley Ashby (uncle; via adoption)
Children
Unknown
Flings & Affairs
Amber Moore
Lily Winters (Engagement broken)
Crimes Committed
In Australia caught swimming naked at night in Country Club pool - arrested for drunk & disorderly conduct
Brief Character History
Phillip Chancellor III was the love child of Jill Foster and Phillip Chancellor II, as Phillip's father was married to Katherine at the time of conception. Though Jill and Phillip II were married on his deathbed, Katherine had the marriage legally invalidated, stopping any inheritance to Jill or her son, and use of the Chancellor name.
In 2007, shortly after getting a DNA test that confirmed Jill was indeed her daughter, Katherine began having disturbing nightmares of a baby crying. Through the help of psychic Silvia Brown whose card reading turned into a séance with Jill's dead son Phillip, Kay began to remember a ring and a scene where she was handing over a baby. When it finally came back to her she was forced to reveal to Jill that Kay had switched her son Phillip for another baby shortly after his birth, and had given a woman named Violet an expensive ring to secure the deal. Because of her heavy drinking and shame, Kay had blocked this out all these years. Jill was torn between being livid with Kay and relieved that her son Phillip was not dead after all. They hired JT to try to track down the real Phillip Chancellor III. And Amber Moore also did her own research consulting tarot cards and psychics, and the Internet. Amber found Cane whose adopted mother was named Violet. He was searching for his mother and came to Genoa City from Australia on her lead. Amber and Cane got cozy, and after she discovered the possible link to the Chancellor millions, she took him to Vegas to get married supposedly to keep him from being deported back to Australia. At the last minute Cane decided against the marriage, so Amber drugged him and got her friend Ali to take his place in disguise. The next morning she, told Cane he was too drunk to remember being married. A DNA test later proved him to be the real Phillip Chancellor, son of Jill. Violet died while he was still a baby. Her brother Langley took the baby home to Australia and raised him as his own, naming him Ethan "Cane" Ashby.
Amber continued to trick her way into Cane's heart and impending fortune. She staged power outages in their apartment and a burglary at the Chancellor Estate which eventually led Katherine to ask Amber and Cane to move into the Estate. Kay asked Cane to take a position with Chancellor Industries as Property Manager, but he refused, saying that he was not qualified and not wanting a hand-out. But he was talked into taking it temporarily until Kay could get a permanent person. Just as we began to trust Cane that his claim was legitimate, we overhear a phone conversation between him and his uncle Langley in Australia inferring that he is conning them, but that idea seems to have been dropped.
Lily became interested in 31 year old Cane Ashby. He returned her feelings, though he tried to deny it, due to her being only 19 and Neil's disapproval, so they agreed to remain just friends. Meanwhile Neil began dating Karen Taylor, they began a sexual relationship, and Karen moved in with Neil among all of Dru's things and Neil's memories. Devon and Lily had a hard time getting past his "disrespect for Dru" but came to accept Karen.
Due to a mini-stroke, Katherine decided it's time to put her house in order. She took a liking to Amber, seeing a lot of herself in her, and hired her to assist in writing her memoires, and also investing in Amber's designer fashion line. Kay made Jill CEO of Chancellor Industries, Cane Director of Acquisitions and later Vice President of Jabot, and mad Nikki Newman CEO of Jabot. Nikki hired her lover (now husband) David Chow as Co-CEO and Brad Carlton as another Jabot executive. Jill is micro-managing Jabot, not being confident in Nikki's abilities.
Then Lily won the Fresh Face of Jabot contest, and began learning to model. But hard as they tried to remain just friends, Lily and Cane ended up consummating their relationship on Valentine's Day. Caught by Neil leaving their room at the Athletic Club, still bathed in afterglow, Cane insisted on setting the record straight by telling Neil he was in love with Lily and promised not to hurt her. Lily got busy into her modeling career under the tutelage of Professional Model Handler Chloe, working long hours on her cover shot for the launch issue of Restless Style magazine/webzine, flunking out of college, not eating due to pressure from Chloe about her figure, only to discover she was pregnant. After much indecision, Lily told Cane and her father. Then after going to her mother's old ballet studio to feel close to her mother, Lily decided to have the baby. Later Cane staged a lovely marriage proposal at the same studio, but Lily was hesitant to say yes, afraid he wanted to marry her for all the wrong reasons. Meanwhile Neil was making plans to raise Lily's baby with Karen, without consulting Lily, Cane, nor Karen beforehand - causing Karen to feel disrespected and move out. But when Cane & Lily went for the first ultrasound, it was discovered that there was no more baby. It had dissolved on its own due to imperfection. Cane and Lily were devastated, and Karen was great consoling Lily, and Kay & Jill in consoling Cane. Not long afterward came another blow for poor Lily - due to the intervention of a consultant, Lily was dropped from the Restless Style magazine/webzine cover. Chloe needed a place to live, so moved in with Devon and Lily. Now overcrowded with Chloe and her unusual collection of stuff, plus worried about Lily's emotional state, Cane asked Lily to move in with him, but Lily turned him down. After a bit of soul-searching, Lily has decided to go back to college and is only modeling as a part time job. After Lily found out the Chloe had made a pass at Cane and Devon on separate occasions while drunk, she tossed Chloe out. Cane helped Chloe find a place to live just to get rid of her. Then one night after discovering she was pregnant, Chloe setup Cane to get drunk, then offered him a ride home. When Cane passed out in her car, she made it look as though they had had sex when Cane awoke.
After David was killed and Nikki was fired, Jill made Cane CEO of Jabot Cosmetics.
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. Lily insisted on a prenatal paternity test, and when it came back not ruling out Cane as the father, she gave Cane back his ring and told him he should marry the mother of his child instead. Cane gave Chloe the ring and moved her into the back room of his house, claiming to be doing it for the child. Chloe is flaunting the ring and her pregnancy with a Chancellor heir all around Genoa City.
