Victor Christian Newman
Born: Christian Miller
Actor History
Eric Braeden (1980 to Present)
Nicknames
The Great Victor Newman or TGVN
The Black Knight
The Mustache
Mr. Mumbles
Mr. Moneybags
Lifeline
Birthday March 7th
Occupation
Chairman of the Board of Newman Enterprises
Former owner and Partner in NVP Retreats
Former CEO of Newman Enterprises, a worldwide conglomerate
Market Street Recreation Center creator and former manager
Former manager of Chancellor Industries
Resides At
Newman Ranch, 421 Larkspur Trail, Highway B
Marital Status
Widower
Past Marriages
Julia Newman (divorced)
Nikki Reed (divorced first time, married in 1984)
Ashley Abbott (divorced)
Leanna "Love" Randolph (invalid)
Hope Adams (divorced, deceased)
Diane Jenkins (divorced)
Nikki Reed (invalid; second time)
Nikki Reed (divorced 2nd time Jan 21st, 2008, Married: Sep 5th, 2002)
Married to Sabrina Costelana (married: June 23, 2008)[Deceased August 1, 2008]
Relatives
Albert Miller (father)
Cora Miller (mother; deceased)
Matt Miller (brother)
Cassie Newman (deceased granddaughter; via adoption)
Noah Christian Newman (grandson, son of Nick with Sharon)
Summer Ann Newman (granddaughter, daughter of Nick with Phyllis)
Eve Howard (granddaughter; deceased child of Victoria)
Reed Hellstrom (grandson; child of Victoria with JT)
Children
Victoria Nicole Newman (daughter; with Nikki)
Nicholas Christian Newman (son; with Nikki)
Victor "Adam" Wilson, AKA Victor Adam Newman Jr. (son; with Hope)
Abigail "Abby" Abbott Carlton (daughter; with Ashley; artificial insemination)
Zapato (Victor's golden retriever)
Flings & Affairs
Eve Howard (deceased)
Lauralee Brooks (engagement broken)
Jill Abbott
Cassandra Rawlins (deceased)
Ramona Caceres
Sabrina Costelana
Crimes Committed
Imprisoned first wife Julia's lover, Michael Scott, in his basement.
Blackmailed Michael Baldwin and financed him to commit Commercial bribery
Commerical Bribery - found guilty and sentenced to community service during which he created the Market Street Recreation Center
Brief Character History
Victor was born Christian Miller, first son to a poor and struggling family in Buffalo, NY. After his father Albert left the family, his mother Cora felt the only way they could survive would be to leave one of her two sons with an orphanage. Christian grew up there from the age of 7, forever expecting his mother to return for him as she promised, until he gave up and ran away in his teens. A self-made and self-educated man, he became known as Victor Newman because he had created a "new man" of himself. Victor originally arrived in Genoa City with his wife Julia to run Chancellor Industries for Katherine Chancellor, later became CEO of Newman Enterprises, and is considered the most powerful businessman in town, or maybe the world.
Victor was very protective of his young beautiful wife Julia, and kept her secluded at the ranch with their houseman Charlie. Victor was so consumed by his work, he was barely there himself. Julia met and became friends with Brock Reynolds. Victor got jealous and had a one night stand with his secretary Eve Howard in retaliation. Brock left town when Julia refused to leave Victor for him. Julia wanted a baby, so Victor got a vasectomy without telling her. When offered a job modeling for photographer Michael Scott, Julia jumped at the chance. For once, Victor didn't say no. Michael admired the dark-haired beauty, and they became close friends. When Julia began talking about her friend Michael, Victor became jealous and started following and watching them. Then Julia turned up pregnant. Convinced the baby was Michael's, Victor kidnapped Michael and held him prisoner in the bomb shelter under the ranch house. Victor had outfitted it with cameras so he could observe and torture Michael by making him watch Victor and Julia making love in their bedroom above. Victor fed Michael sparingly, and taunted him often. Dinner once even turned out to be a dead rat. Michael was later found by Julia and freed with the help of his protege Paul Williams. Victor caught Julia on the stairs afterward, accused her of having an affair and the baby being Michael's, causing Julia to fall and miscarry. Later, blood tests proved the baby was Victor's after all. Michael left town, Victor got off scott-free, and Julia left town not long afterward.
This intimidating, often called "ruthless", successful business tycoon always wins - every deal, every argument, every business acquisition. If he cannot beat them by other methods, he buys them off. One of his many acquisitions included the takeover of Jabot Cosmetics by buying stock when they "went public", thereby creating a major adversary in Jack Abbott. Through the years, Victor and Jack have vied for one-ups-man-ship both in business and women, but although Jack may win temporarily, in the end, Victor always prevails.
In sharp contrast, Victor's personal life includes many marriages and divorces. But the love of his life will always be Nikki Reed, to whom he was introduced by his pal Douglas Austin, when she was a stripper barely out of her teens at the Bayou. Victor fell for her, took her home and transformed her into a classy young lady with lessons and lavish gifts of clothing and jewelry. Nikki spent her days at the piano, her evenings being entertained and taught by Victor, and her nights yearning for him. Though Victor proclaimed no romantic feelings for her, he finally succumbed to her charm, and they spent one night together. Adamant that this was a mistake, Victor found a beau for her in wealthy young Kevin Bancroft. Victor began seeing Lorie Brooks, who unbeknownst to Victor, was writing an expose on him. Prior to their wedding Lori talked Victor into giving her Prentiss Industries (the company Victor had bought away from her former husband Lance) as a wedding gift. He did, and she tore up the manuscript in return. Then she left him at the altar with a note and her ring. Lori was the first person to ever pull a fast one on Victor Newman and get away with it.
Eve Howard and her friend Max plotted to kill Victor by poisoning him so that her son Charles Cole, whom she claimed was Victor's, could inherit his wealth. Julia, back in town again, overheard the plot and informed Victor. Too late, he had already been poisoned, but an antidote was found. To entrap Eve, Julia told her Victor was dead and that his body was going to be exhumed for an autopsy. Victor and the police caught them both digging up his fake grave. Max was impaled by a pitch fork trying to escape, and Eve ended up in a mental hospital.
Meanwhile Nikki married Kevin, and shortly afterward discovered she was pregnant with Victor's child. Nikki named her baby girl Victoria Nicole after Kevin's grandmother. Pressured by Kevin's mother Allison, Nikki escaped by resuming stripping at the Bayou, Kevin found out and filed for divorce. Kevin's mother Alison faked a porn film of Nikki to get custody of Victoria and disappeared with the child. Rick Daros discovered and informed Alison and Victor of Victoria's true paternity, and found and returned Victoria to Nikki. Then a mobster named Tony DiSalvo showed up with a copy of the porn tape, "Hot Hips." Nikki seduced and married Tony to get it back, but he was killed by Paul Williams and Andy Richards who were investigating him. Rick was in love with Nikki, but and once they began living together Victor had him investigated and discovered he had murdered his wife Melissa. Rick talked Nikki into accompanying him on a trip to the island of St. Croix, but she was rescued once again by Victor, Paul and Andy. Victor sustained a wound in the groin from a spear gun which left him impotent.
Nikki and Victor finally admitted their love and married. Eve escaped and interrupted the wedding, but she was captured and it proceeded. Not long afterward, as a gift for Victor who was still haunted by his past, Nikki had Paul research and arrange a reunion between Victor and his mother Cora and brother Matt, but records showed that his father Albert had died. Once Victor learned the circumstances of his abandonment, he forgave his mother, who died from a terminal illness shortly afterward, and Victor put Matt in charge of one of his companies in Brazil.
When Ashley Abbott discovered that her real father was golf pro Brent Davis, she hitchhiked her way out of town with a truck driver. Calling herself Annie while waitressing at a truck stop, Ashley was recognized and John Abbott was called demanding a ransom for her whereabouts. John contacted Victor who tracked her down and brought her to the Newman ranch to recuperate from the trauma. Ashley moved from the ranch when she found her and Victor being drawn to each other. Nikki discovered it and retaliated by having an affair with Jack Abbott. Then deciding to fight for Victor instead, she tried to pair Ashley with Victor's brother Matt Miller. But it was too late. Nikki and Victor had separated, and Ashley and Victor were in love. Then Victor learned that Nikki had an incurable disease, and returned to Nikki to try to make her remaining days happy. Ashley discovered she was pregnant, then found out about the reconciliation. Although Matt volunteered to marry her, Ash decided the only solution was abortion. Meanwhile Victor found out Nikki was in remission, yet still faking her disease, so filed for divorce, intending to return to Ashley. Finding out about the abortion, he berated Ash and caused another nervous breakdown. Ashley found herself without her memory again in a New York City mental institution.
Victor's nemesis, Jack Abbott, arranged for Leanna Randolph to write a sensational tell-all biography of Victor under the pseudonym of Nora Randall called "Ruthless: The Victor Newman Story." Ironically, Victor also hired her to write an authorized biography of his life. Without Jack's knowledge, Leanna added an extra chapter to "Ruthless" that exposed Ashley and Victor's affair, including Ashley's abortion. Nikki, who was pregnant with Victor's baby, hoped that they would eventually resume their marriage. But when "Ruthless" hit the bookstores, Victor assumed that Nikki was responsible and quickly divorced her. In a surprise move, Victor married Leanna Randolph. Because Leanna felt guilty about the expose novel, and really had come to care for Victor, she wrote another book called "Victor Newman - Man & Myth" under her real name. Meanwhile, Victor devised an ingenious way to punish Jack for his role in the publication of Leanna's tawdry book about Newman's life. Victor orchestrated a takeover of Jabot, displaced Jack and made Brad Carlton his superior.
A year later, Jack, knowing that Victor was about to propose to Nikki, decided to get revenge by marrying Nikki himself. Victor offered to return Jabot to the Abbotts if Jack would divorce her. Although Jack had fallen deeply in love with Nikki, he reluctantly agreed out of loyalty to his father, John. But a crafty Victor took advantage of a carefully worded loophole in the contract that voided the deal. Time went by and Nikki became pregnant with Jack's baby, but she fell from a horse, miscarried and injured her back. Nikki ended up addicted to pain killers with alcohol chasers. While Victor was embroiled in saving Nikki from herself, Jack and Brad schemed to take over Newman Enterprises. Victor bugged Jack's office, discovered the plot, and collapsed during a fierce confrontation with Jack. Jack smirked and walked out leaving Victor dying on the floor of his office. But Jack's conscience prevailed, he called 911, and Victor was rescued. After Jack discovered Nikki proclaiming her undying love at Victor's bedside, he moved out of the ranch. Not long afterward, Victor and Ashley divorced when she got fed up with his preoccupation with Nikki. Before Nikki and Victor could reunite, she discovered she was pregnant again with Jack's baby. Nikki and Jack reconciled, but months later while Victor and Nikki were engaged in a heated confrontation, Nikki accidentally fell down the steps and miscarried. Jack was grief-stricken. Realizing that Nikki was still confused about who she loved, Jack moved out. When Jack discovered that an argument between Nikki and Victor had led to Nikki's fall down the stairs, he held Victor responsible, and left Nikki again for keeping it from him. It was clear Nikki would never love anyone the way she loved Victor. After Victor was blasted by Nikki, Ashley and teenaged Victoria, all resenting the control he tried to exert in their lives, he left town.
During Victor's trip, he was robbed of his wallet, jewelry, and car. After his car was found with a body inside burned beyond recognition, 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. While wedding plans were 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 to Genoa City.
Everyone was stunned that Victor was still alive. Victor fired Jack for taking control of his company. Upset by Jack's dismissal, John and Ashley resigned from Jabot which was still owned by Victor, and made plans to create a rival cosmetics company. Unfortunately, thanks to Victor's interference, their loan application was denied. The stress caused John to suffer a heart attack. Out of love for his family, Jack promised Victor that he'd stay away from Jabot, provided Victor rehire Ashley and John.
Years later Victor and Nikki were shocked to learn that Victoria and Cole Howard had eloped to Vegas. Upon their return, Victor revealed that Eve had always claimed Cole was his son. While going through the deceased Eve's belongings, Victor discovered a letter from another man, which cast doubt on Cole's paternity. Victor immediately arranged to have blood tests run on Cole, the other man, and Eve's corpse which proved Cole was not his, and that Victoria and Cole could remain married.
Victor proposed to Hope, and 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, 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 Sr.'s disappointment, Hope decided to stay in Kansas and raise their son on her farm, and they were later divorced.
Nikki, tired of waiting for Victor to resume their romance, accepted Brad Carlton's marriage proposal. Victor was shocked when he learned that Brad was the mystery man in Nikki's life. To retaliate, he bypassed Brad for a promotion at Newman Enterprises and awarded the new position to Neil Winters. One day Victor received a FAX meant for Jack from his son Keemo, urging Jack to be leery of his new girlfriend Mari Jo Mason, then confronted Mari Jo about it. On Brad and Nikki's wedding day, Victor was shot by an unseen assailant. When Nikki learned of the shooting, she fled her wedding to be by Victor's side at the hospital. As Victor recovered from his gunshot wound, the police zeroed in on several suspects, including Brad and Jill. Brad urged Nikki to marry him and immediately leave for their honeymoon, but Nikki wanted to keep herself available for Victor. Upset, Brad broke off his relationship with Nikki and left town. When the police discovered that the gun used to shoot Victor belonged to Jill, she was arrested. Further investigation cleared Jill, and she was released. Victor's 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. Victor enjoyed spending time with his son Victor Jr., 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 too late, he decided not to tell Nikki that he was still in love with her. When Mari Jo realized that Chris now had the FAX that could destroy her relationship with Jack, she kidnapped Chris and held her prisoner in a isolated storage area of Newman Enterprises. While Chris was struggling to escape from the gun-wielding Mari Jo, Victor and Paul came to her rescue. Mari Jo was arrested for kidnapping and the attempted murder of Victor and was committed to a mental institution.
Ten years after she left Genoa City, Diane Jenkins returned a well-respected architect, admitting her marriage to Andy Richards had ended in divorce. Jack Abbott, who had also gone through several changes in his own personal life including two marriages, was excited to see Diane again. But Diane's memories made her mistrust Jack. To see Diane on a regular basis, Jack hired her to design a lake home for him. Thanks to Jack's continual persuasion and romantic overtures, Diane admitted to Jack that she still had strong feelings for him. They rekindled their romance and eventually became engaged. Then Victor decided to begin romancing Diane, originally to get back at Jack, but he ended up falling for her. Victor offered Diane a top secret assignment to design the new Newman Towers, and mesmerized her with lavish gifts. Victor stole Diane away on business, proposed on the jet, they married in Nevada, and honeymooned in the Greek Islands. While married to Diane, Nikki was shot. Victor arranged a quickie divorce from Diane to remarry Nikki on her deathbed, so she could die happy. But Nikki lived. Due to his divorce from Diane being declared illegal, this second marriage to Nikki was voided. A legal wedding was being planned, but Nikki's insecurities about their relationship kept it from ever happening when she requested another baby by Victor. Victor rebuffed the idea, so she had an affair with Brad Carlton. Victor disappeared for months, then returned with a tale of being kidnapped and held in the Arizona desert, but was rescued and then had an affair with Romana Caserez. When he discovered Nikki had slept with Brad while he was gone, he broke it off with her. Victor moved back to the ranch during a family crisis when their grand daughter Cassie was thought to have an active TB infection, and he and Nikki began an affair again. All that collapsed once Victor discovered Nikki was the one who bailed out his arch enemies at Jabot with $35 million dollars.
During his marriage to Diane, Victor had a vasectomy behind her back, but made a deposit at a sperm bank prior. After their divorce Diane found out about the deposit, and decided to steal it to become pregnant with the baby he had deprived her. Diane was artificially inseminated supposedly by Victor's stolen sperm. After the baby's birth, Victor insisted on DNA tests which showed baby Christian Victor Newman was not his child after all. Soon afterward, Diane left town with her baby. It was later disclosed that Nikki, with the help of Jack, had employed a detective to get into Robertson Labs and switch the sperm samples. Her attempt to help Victor resulted in Jack being the father when the man grabbed Jack's deposit as the nearest sample to replace Victor's.
Nikki and Victor were able to get back on friendly, even romantic terms again. He even bought an engagement ring, but was hesitant to take the big step again. But after a quest that took him all over the country visiting all his old flames, trying to figure out what he keeps doing wrong, he finally popped the question to Nikki once again. They were re-married in September 2002 with a lavish ceremony and reception at The Colonnade Room, sight of their first wedding. As always, a crisis hit the Newman Ranch with the split of Nick and Sharon after she had a one night stand with stable hand Diego. Nikki was continually berating Sharon for her foolishness and siding with Nick, Victor was comforting Sharon and begging Nick to buck up and put it behind him, and Victoria left home with Diego, furious with her father for trying to buy him off.
After much soul-searching Nick decided to give his marriage another chance. Bringing flowers and a present for Sharon, he paused at the window of their home to see Sharon kissing his father Victor. Furious, Nick called off any idea of reconciliation. When confronted, Victor took the blame being on pain pills, although the mixed up Sharon was once again coming on to any man who was nice to her. Sharon decided her life was a mess and left town. Cassie felt betrayed and angry with her parents after Nick brushed her off, being more interested in berating Victor than comforting his daughter. She wandered off and fell through the ice on the Ranch pond. Nick finally realized she was missing a long time later, jumped into the pond and rescued Cassie. She was Care-flighted to the hospital and was in a coma for days. Meanwhile in the waiting room, Victor confessed to Nikki that he was caught by Nick kissing Sharon. Slap! "How COULD you?" Cassie eventually recovered. Sharon returned home with a new resolve to not be trod on by any Newman again. Nick eventually made up with Sharon.
Several months later, the Cosmetic Wars began, and tensions were high as nearly everyone's mate was the enemy. Victor was CEO of Newman and wife Nikki worked for Jabot. Jack was CEO of Jabot and wife Phyllis worked for Newman. Neil worked for Newman and then-fiancé Dru worked for Jabot. Not to mention Victoria and Nick whose parents were on opposite sides. Plus Victoria was resentful that Victor passed her over and mentored Nick to take over Newman one day, even though Nick was unable to forgive him for being too close with his wife Sharon. Newman Enterprises outbid Jabot to buy out Satine Cosmetics for Women of Color due to inside information that Dru let slip to Neil. Jabot decided to resurrect a similar shelved project of Ashley's called Tuvia to compete. Payback was had when Dru found out that Newman was trying to woo Satine creator, Damon Porter, as their chemist for the newly named Safra line. Dru stole him away to work for Jabot during Ashley's maternity leave. Jabot was still hurting financially, but saw Tuvia as their savior, depending on their reputation and fine product to put them back in the black. But Victor could not let Jabot win the war, so blackmailed Michael Baldwin into paying off large retailers to give them the prime shelf space normally held by Jabot.
With both product's rollout only a day away, Victor felt the need to find very pregnant Ashley where she was nesting at a resort just days away from delivery, to tell her not to worry - which of course made her worry all the more. The next day Safra was selling like hotcakes and finished a close second to Tuvia. The Abbotts were shocked, the Newmans jubilant. Nick smelled a rat. Ashley knew Victor pulled a fast one. She decided to drive to Genoa City to convince him to stop whatever he was doing to Jabot. Ashley's SUV was broad-sided just outside Genoa City, and Jack and Brad were on the scene as she was cut out of her SUV and rushed to the hospital battered and bruised. As Brad held the hand of the unconscious Ashley, the fetal heart monitor stopped. Ash was rushed into surgery, but the baby, named Robert after John's father, died. Nearly everyone blamed Victor Newman. John Abbott even went out to the ranch and punched Victor in the face. When Ash was told, she blamed herself - especially after Olivia delivered the news that Ash can have no more children. When Victor came to see Ash, she told him to go away! Brad went gunning for Victor to even the score. Meanwhile Ashley had another mental breakdown, as she happily showed people her newborn son which was nothing but a baby blanket, and refused to allow Brad to have a memorial service. Ashley got the help and medication she needed, and returned home.
Nick found out about Victor's dirty tricks, and turned him in to the Feds. Just afterward, Victor's brother Matt came to him with news that there father was still alive. After he'd abandoned his family when they were children, Albert had struck it rich and faked his death. But now Albert was really dying in a hospital in Toronto, and thought Victor should know. Victor was coerced into going, and insisted Nick accompany him. Albert turned out to be a nasty old man who still wanted nothing to do with his son. Victor let him know how he'd devastated him and haunted him his entire life, but that he'd become a success in spite of him, then left in tears.
Michael Baldwin and Victoria were falling for each other when Victor's illegal activities came out. She was so devastated and disappointed in her father, she left town. Victor felt Nick had betrayed him and disowned him. Nikki confronted Victor that his tricks had lost her $35 million investment in Jabot, but Victor claimed he did nothing wrong - this is how business is done. Unlike the rest of the Abbotts, Ashley let Victor know she was ashamed of him, but held no grudges. Victor was arrested and jailed the day before Christmas and refused bail. When Ashley found out, she visited him and convinced him to quit moping, accept bail and go home to his family for Christmas. Although Michael offered to take the rap, Victor insisted he make a deal with the DA's office to hopefully save his legal career. Nikki gave an impassioned speech at Victor's commercial bribery trial and Phyllis dealt the final blow to her marriage by also testifying on Victor's behalf. Phyllis asked Nick for her job back, but he turned her down. Victor was found guilty and in a last ditch attempt to keep from going to prison, offered Jack $75 million to settle. Jack laughed in his face as it was nowhere near what they lost. Victor was sentenced to do some major community service. After sentencing John and Ashley raked Jack over the coals for not consulting them about the settlement offer. They then attempted to accept the settlement, but Victor pronounced the offer was now $20 million, so they declined. Further prodded by Nikki for a reasonable settlement, Victor came up with his final offer - the original $75 million, with the stipulation that Jack could never work for Jabot again. Reluctantly John and Ashley were about to accept, when Jack offered to resign if it would save Jabot. He did, Jabot got the $75 million, and Jack has reverted to his past, being the happy-go-lucky unemployed playboy, and occasionally sleeping with Jill. Victor was told to come up with something spectacular for his Community Service project. He found a derelict former paint factory in a seedy part of town, and financed and supervised it's renovation into the Market Street Recreation Center with the help of neighborhood volunteers and young adult children of the Genoa City wealthy.
Ashley, living in a dream world, suddenly announced to Brad that their marriage was over, because she wanted to be with her true love Victor. When Victor heard what she did, he confronted Ashley and made her realize that he was happily married to Nikki with no romantic interest in Ashley. Ashley and Brad separated, Ash moved home to the Abbott's, leaving Abby staying in the house with Brad. Victor was enjoying regular visitation with Abby until she fell from a horse on the ranch, and became rather afraid of him. Victor then shocked everyone with his sudden decision to finally turn Newman Enterprises over to his son Nick and the Rec Center to the neighborhood, and left town for another of his quests, leaving Nick in charge. A few weeks later Victor returned to find that Nick let the power go to his head, cancelled Neil's pet projects and refused Neil's advice, causing Neil to quit. Afraid his sister Victoria would return and demand her former position, Nick hired Drucilla Winters as Head of the Cosmetics Division, and Neil was rehired to mentor her. Not long afterward, Victoria returned from Italy. Nick also hired his wife Sharon away from Jabot to be Spokesperson for the Newman Cosmetic Line. After their 14 year old daughter Cassie was killed in a tragic accident, Nick took a leave of absence, and Victor is in charge at Newman once again. Jack offered Victoria the position of Jill's right hand at Jabot, and Victor the task of taking over the CEO position at Newman. Victoria accepted the position at Newman, and Nick took it amazingly well when he returned from tracking down Daniel Romalotti, the young man he held responsible for his daughter's death. Nick was too caught up in rage and vengeance to worry about Newman, intent on seeing Daniel PAY! He insisted on firing Phyllis, but after telling Nick off, she retorted, "You can't fire me. I quit." One of Victoria's first acts as CEO was to hire Brad Carlton. Despite their animosity, Victor approved. While Nick was still angry over his daughter Cassie's death, Brad made plans with Sharon for her return to Newman working with him on the Touch of Nature project, and later was named Spokesperson for the line. When Nick decided to return to Newman, Victor made him and Victoria Co-CEO's.
Nikki and Phyllis came up with an idea to create wellness spas under the Jabot umbrella, and took it to Jack who promptly shot it down as not feasible considering Jabot's instability. Phyllis and Jack had it out, and she quit her new job as Jabot Executive of Internet Affairs. So Nikki and Phyllis presented the idea to Victor instead, and he agreed to fund the project, joined the partnership, gave them an office in Newman Towers, and they called it NVP after Nikki, Victor and Phyllis. So Jack filed a lawsuit against them, which was the final split in his on-again/off-again relationship with Phyllis. Sharon signed on as Spokesperson for NVP. Not long afterward Victor became afflicted with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and was duped by Jack into selling him NVP, with a stipulation that Victor would have final say on all decisions.
Victor's epilepsy was finally diagnosed, 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. Some time later Nikki called Hope, looking for Victor, and Hope informed her that Victor had gone to a monastery in India. Victor returned home and began having seizures that make him violent in short bursts caused by his medication he received in India. Rather than experiment with more medications, Victor underwent gamma knife radio surgery which seems to be controlling his epilepsy.
Jack was legally unable to own Jabot, so he made an offer through a company called House of Kim, which Katherine accepted. To make matters worse, Jack financed it using a loan from Victor Newman. Ji Min Kim is now on the scene in Genoa City as the figurehead owner of Jabot. Victor has figured out that Jack now owns Jabot, and is bent on Jack's destruction once again. Ashley was so upset by the collusion that she has accepted a position with House of Kim in Hong Kong, taking her daughter Abby with her. They have since moved to Los Angeles and Ashley is working with Forrester Creations.
Victor became determined to find the Grudgeon Reliquary. He and Brad posed as art connoisseurs searching for the reliquary. After some tense moments they managed to fool them and purchase it. They brought it home to Rebecca who found an inscription which was in code. Thanks to Colleen confiding in her art history professor and lover, Adrian Korbel, he solved the puzzle which revealed a treasure worth billions that was concealed in a the catacombs in the Czech Republic.
Meanwhile Jana Hawkes suddenly disappeared and so much of her blood was found in the park, she was feared dead. Surprisingly, Jana had been saving up her blood to set this all up. She kidnapped Colleen so that Jana and her father Milan could get to the Nazi treasure in the Chech Republic before Brad and Victor. Once she had the secret code from Colleen, Jana admitted that her great-grandfather, a jeweler, had been forced to etch the inscription into the reliquary, and then afterward, he was murdered by the Nazis because he knew too much. She also admitted that she had killed Carmen Mesta. Then Jana trapped Colleen and Kevin in a walk-in cooler in an abandoned building and set it afire. Altho Jana had fallen in love with him, framing Kevin was her necessary out, and since Kevin had once tried to the same to Colleen, Kevin would be blamed and it would be assumed that he mistakenly got trapped with her this time. Jana's father turned up at the catacombs after Victor, Victoria and Brad discovered the treasure. Milan locked them up, but was killed by the authorities, as he tried to escape with the treasure. As the smoke got thicker, Kevin gave Colleen his water soaked shirt to help her breath, they bonded, and were later rescued by JT and Adrian, and Jana disappeared.
The controversial NVP spa project known as Clear Springs had everyone at Newman taking sides. Jack, Victor, Phyllis and Nick's position is that this large development would revitalize a dying town, and Nikki, Brad, and Victoria were opposed as it would wipe out historic structures in the town. Nikki and Neil ran for the vacant Newman board seat to boost the votes for their side, and thanks to Phyllis's blackmail of Brad over his affair with Sharon, Victor's yes-man Neil won, so they appear to have the upper hand on Clear Springs. But Brad got Phyllis arrested for extortion, she was found guilty, and is awaiting sentencing.
As part of a plot to bring down Jack, Victor convinced Jack to run for the Wisconsin State Senate. Nikki was in on it, but in her anger at being passed over as a board member of Newman in favor of Neil, she decided to run against Jack. Victor was livid and reminded Nikki where she came from and where she would be if not for him! Meanwhile Jack continues to be visited by his conscience in the form of his dead father John, and appeared to be having second thoughts about the things he has done to control Victor during his epilepsy when he was vulnerable. Jack's campaign manager David Chow pulled a dirty trick by exposing Nikki's porn film 'Hot Hips' on the Internet to discredit her, so Jack fired him. Then Nikki hired him to pull the same sort of tricks on Jack. In what appeared to be a political move at the time, Jack and Sharon were married at the ranch with Noah as best man.
Victor and Sharon were scheduled to fly to Clear Springs, then Jack was going in Victor's place, but had to cancel. So Sharon and Nick ended taking the trip instead. On the return trip the Newman jet went down in Lake Michigan with no survivors. Sharon surprised everyone when she walked in on the Newmans and Jack just after they'd gotten the news. She was just as shocked to hear that her taking another flight had saved her life, and that Nick was missing and presumed dead. (It has since been suggested that the jet may have been sabotaged.) Noah and Nikki were devastated, but Nikki carried on with her State Senatorial campaign with the help of her campaign manager, David Chow. Victor abandoned them in their grief after Hope called, by taking off for Sri Lanka to search for their missing son Victor Jr. While Victor was away, David fell for Nikki, they got caught kissing by Phyllis and Sharon, and were exposed on videotape. Gloria got Kevin to monitor the security cameras at Jabot, which proved that Jack owned Jabot. So Jack quickly sold Jabot at a loss to Katherine Chancellor. In the end, Jack won the election and became State Senator, but later left in disgrace when his former step-other Gloria exposed him for falsifying his father's will that cut her out. Nick turned up lost in the woods, found by Internist Logan Anderson and brought back to GC and his family. But Nick lost his memory of the past two years of his life, including his marriage to Phyllis and their baby Summer. Remembering only his love for Sharon, Nick tried to win her back even though she was married to Jack, but Sharon though tempted, wasn't interested. Nick began seeing Phyllis, curious as to why he ever hooked up with this person he remembers not even liking very much. When Noah started acting out for Sharon, Nick agreed to move back in with Phyllis so Noah could come live with them. Nick did not regain his memory, but it didn't take long for him to fall in love with Phyllis all over again. Then Phyllis was tried, found guilty of extortion, and went to prison. But Michael got her off after serving only a few months.
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. Victor returned as arrogant and controlling as ever, still intent on somehow bringing Jack down. It wasn't until weeks later, and after he'd agreed to sell NVP to Nikki, that Victor discovered Jack had sold Jabot to Katherine, so he had lost his leverage over Jack. Livid with Jack, Kay, and Ji Min for outwitting him, Victor lit into Nikki for not warning him, telling her he only sold her NVP so she would have to sell her Jabot stock, then he could go after Jack, not to please her! Nikki had enough of his pompous behavior, moved out, and have divorced again. Nikki asked David Chow to work for her running NVP, and they became lovers. Meanwhile Ji Min Kim turned up dead in his room at the GC Athletic Club. Victor and Jack were prime suspects.
One day everyone in GC seemed to be at Clear Springs when its underground parking structure & casino collapsed, trapping several of them inside. Sharon, Jack, and Nick were there to scout for a photo shoot. Nick was knocked out, and Jack pinned by debris but Nick awoke and got him free. Sharon's leg was sprained, but they managed to find an opening in the rubble. Jack levered it open so that Nick and Sharon could escape, leaving him there still trapped. While waiting for rescue, Jack wrote a note to Sharon confessing how much he loved her. Meanwhile Amber crawled out of her crushed car and made her way to an elevator, finding Kay bruised and dirty inside, having been left there while her grandson Cane and JT crawled up the shaft for help. Also trapped were Adrian Korbel with a very pregnant Victoria, and Lauren and Noah trapped with Paul. Nikki and others stood vigil on the outside, waiting while rescuers cleared rubble and tried to get to the victims. Phyllis, still in prison, heard about it on TV, got no answer on Nick's cell, and got the news when she called Victor. Sharon and Nick walked out of the rubble, asking rescuers to go back for Jack. They said it was too dangerous, that methane was escaping and about to blow up, so our hero Victor, went in and rescued his worst enemy. Cane and JT made it out, but Cane fooled them into believing he'd had rescue training in Australia, and went back to rescue Kay and Amber. Sharon and Nick were relieved when Noah came out on a stretcher. Then the dead body of the construction foreman was removed. The reason Cane and Kay were there was to investigate him for shoddy work and kickbacks. Finally Korbel and Victoria emerged, just as the methane blast occurred. Victoria was hit on the head with a rock, knocked out, and rolled down the pile of debris.
Still pregnant, Victoria spent months in a coma while her family and fiancé JT held vigil at her bedside. They finally had to decide if the baby should be delivered prematurely to save Victoria. JT and Victor chose to deliver, but Nikki insisted that Victoria would rather her baby live, so it was taken to court. They ended up waiting a couple more weeks until the baby had a better chance, then baby boy Reed was delivered. A DNA test was run and JT was pronounced the father. Reed thrived in the hospital while still comatose Victoria was taken back to the ranch. Nikki and Victor were separated, so Victor lived in the ranch house while Nikki took residence in Sharon's cottage with David Chow forever there in Victor's face. Not long after JT brought Reed home, Victoria woke up. Victoria and JT were married, and they moved back to the loft apartment with Reed Victor made his new son-in-law JT head of Newman Security by Victor, and Victoria is going back to work now that she is stronger.
The investigation into the Clear Springs disaster found that it was caused by Victor Newman's mining the methane underneath it. It didn't take long for Victor to alienate everyone around him, including Nikki by calling in her loans for NVP, bankrupting her so she divorced him, and he fired Nick as CoCEO of Newman and replaced him with Neil. After losing his Senatorial seat, Jack and Nick got together and decided to start "Restless Style" an Internet & Print Magazine, asked Phyllis to join them in the partnership, and Sharon requested to work with them later.
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 now goes 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 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.
Victor Jr. 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.
With plans of starting a new beginning in New York City as a Consulting Private Curator, Sabrina Costelana stopped in GC to check in on her best friend Victoria after coming out of a months-long coma. Sabrina had just broken up with her lover, Phillipe, a talented artist she placed in an art show only to have him dump her afterward. Phillipe now claims to want her back, calling often and saying he made a lot of mistakes. Victoria, newly married and with a new baby, persuaded Sabrina to live at Newman Ranch during her stay. Sabrina began spending a lot of time in the company of Victor Newman, who was recently divorced from his wife, Nikki, and was living alone at the Newman ranch. They began speaking French to each other and shared their love of art. About the time Sabrina tried to tell Victoria of her growing romantic interest in her father, Victoria told her how much she hoped her parents would reconcile for the umpteeth time.
Though her art preference was Modern where his was Classic, Sabrina convinced Victor to invest in Modern art after a trip to Los Angeles in which Victor wooed and won her. On returning to Genoa City, Victor decided to open the city's first art museum in the ground floor of a building Nick owned...a building on which Victor just happened to own the mortgage. The building also headquartered the Restless Style magazine on an upper floor. Sabrina decided she had to tell her friend Victoria that she and Victor were having an affair. Victoria was aghast, called Sabrina an opportunist and threw her out of her house. Sabrina made several attempts to reconcile with Victoria, but was continually rebuffed. 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. After only a month together, Victor presented Sabrina with a lavish ring and popped the question, to which Sabrina said yes. The next day 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. Nikki reacted to the news of Sabrina & Victor's engagement by eloping with David to Mexico. It wasn't long afterward that Sabrina announced that she was pregnant. Victor was thrilled. (Strange considering the man has had two vasectomies.)
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. During the wedding, at the stables with her new horse Athena, Nikki received a devastating phone call from David telling her that he could no longer deceive her about his gambling and that he wanted a divorce. But the next day David appeared begging Nikki to give him another chance, and Nikki is trying. On returning from their honeymoon, Victor ran into Nikki and saw her upset, but Victor left when Paul interrupted saying he was meeting her. Meanwhile David, on a business trip to Hollywood, cut it short to gamble in Vegas - where he was spotted by Gloria losing big at the roulette table.
As Victor predicted, the first edition of his son Nick's Restless Style magazine/webzine did not do as well as expected, so the second had a hipper cover featuring hot singer Katy Perry. Then Adrian Korbel was hired to do an article on Sabrina and the Newman Gallery for the 3rd issue, to which she and Victor approved, and Victoria stepped up as a last minute replacement for the cover which was done in a Hollywood retro style. Though Adrian stumbled upon a rumor that Sabrina had wrangled an exhibition for her lover Phillipe when she was Art Curator at the Pompidou Museum in Paris which could shed new light on the latest Mrs. Victor Newman, he decided not to make a big deal about it. But Jack did some further research and turned Adrian’s article into a scandalous one that upset everyone, but the magazines sold into a fourth printing. Jack had sent Adrian off to Australia to do another article, so he was furious when he returned. Assuming Nick was in on the scandalous article 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. 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.
The yearly 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 had been held earlier privately and her body was already interred. Victor had disappeared, leaving his cell phone, wallet and epilepsy medication buried on her grave. Adam in his concern, decided to change his name to Victor Newman Jr. Meanwhile the stockholders at Newman voted Victoria back in as CoCEO in Victor’s absence and because the ranch was part of Newman Enterprises, she took it upon herself to kick Adam out. Paul traced him to Mexico where he had been hanging out in a cantina awaiting the arrival of Walter, the man he holds responsible for Sabrina's death. Paul and Nikki have gone there to find Victor.
