I first came to Salem in 1981 to get my wife Liz back, and to check on my assets that were being handled by Stuart Whyland. I noticed that Stuart Whyland had made a $25,000 error in the hospital's financial records. After Stuart got into illegal operations he quickly left town and I took over my own finances. Later I bought the Twilight Bar and made Trish the manager and hired Danny Grant as the bartender. I also became infatuated with Renee Dumonde, and began wooing her with gifts.
In 1982 I kidnapped Liz Chandler, who was still legally my wife since we never divorced. I wanted Doug's place, and with Stefano's help I forced Liz to spy on Doug for me, threatening Neil with harm if she didn't. Stefano and I had learned that there were titanium deposits underneath Doug's Place, and we intended on finding them. We found a passage from a secret room in the DiMera mansion (which Stuart Whyland had built) to the basement of Doug's Place, but in the end the entire thing ended up to be a big hoax.
When Liz asked for a divorce from me, I refused, and eventually beat and raped her. Later Stefano tried to have Neil killed by planting a bomb in his room. I continued to pursue a relationship with Renee, even though Lee warned me to stay away from her. Renee was attacked by the strangler again, but this time she saw his face, but repressed the memory. Fearing the strangler would try for a fourth time I hid Renee in my house.
In 1982 I proposed to Renee, who accepted. However, Renee discovered Lee's diary, and not only learned that Lee was really her mother, but that Stefano DiMera was her father, making me her half brother. Renee quickly broke things off with me, not telling me the real reason in order to spare my feelings. I refused to let Renee go, and when she told me the truth I refused to believe we were siblings. I blamed Stefano for breaking us up, and when I tried to leave town Stefano faked a heart attack. I later learned that Renee and I were in fact not related, and I had the blood tests to prove it. However, Renee had moved on and married David Banning. Even though I told Renee about the new evidence she refused to leave David.
Around the same time Liz Chandler became pregnant with Neil's child, though I believed it was mine. I would grant Liz her divorce, but only after the baby was born, because I wanted the baby. In 1983 Liz gave birth to her baby, and when I realized it was Neil Curtis' child he quickly divorced Liz.
In his will Stefano said in order to earn our inheritance Renee and I had to live under the same roof for one year, and Renee had to stay married to David Banning. Also, the will stated the first couple to have a child would receive an extra five million dollars. Anna soon became pregnant with my child, and jealous Renee tried to kill Anna in a boating accident. I was on the boat with Anna when an explosion went off. Anna and I were rescued by David, but Anna lost her baby. Later that year I learned exactly how Anna got me to marry her, by drugging me. I quickly divorced Anna, even though Anna had fallen in love with me by that time.
In 1984 I was chained up in my penthouse apartment by my evil look-a-like cousin Andre, who took my place. I was eventually rescued by Roman, and after a duel with Andre, Andre managed to slip away. Andre returned to Stefano's island compound were the two planned on acquiring three prisms designed by Larry Welches father. Stefano wanted these prisms to heal an inoperable brain tumor he had. One prism was in the belly of an alligator, another in a necklace owned by Daphne DiMera which fell into Calliope Jones' hands, and the third in Russia.
In 1984 Alex, Anna and I picked Haiti for a photo shoot for our newly formed fashion company. On board the plane flying to Haiti was Eugene Bradford, Calliope Jones, Bo Brady, Hope Williams, Anna DiMera, Liz Chandler, Carlo, Daphne DiMera, Andre DiMera, and me. On the way to Haiti Andre DiMera surprisingly popped up, and when he threatened the pilot to change his course the pilot died of a heart attack, and the plane crashed on a remote island. As a result of the plane crash Daphne DiMera died in Andre's arms.
When I learned about this, we fought, and Andre met his demise in a patch of quicksand. I gave the necklace with the prism to and island girl, but Stefano managed to get the prism back. Roman Brady showed up, and fought with Stefano atop of a nearby cliff as Bo watched from below. Roman eventually fell, and died on the beach in Bo's arms. When Bo left Roman to get help, Roman's body was gone when he returned. Eventually the Coast Guard arrived, and everyone was rescued.
In 1985 Anna and I became engaged once again. Our first marriage was thwarted by Alex Marshall, who hired an actor to play the part of the minister. Our second wedding was thwarted when Anna was kidnapped by an Asian potentate. Eventually Anna and I were married, and returned to Salem. After returning from Salem Anna was accused of murdering her an art dealer, Claud Van Zandt, who swindled her out of profits from pieces of hers he sold. Anna was innocent, and while trying to prove her innocence I disappeared. Anna was also blamed for my disappearance, but in truth I was held captive by a very much alive Claud Van Zandt.
Claud was eventually discovered as being alive, and Anna was let off the hook. I was blackmailed by Emma Donovan to divorce Anna and leave Salem. I returned to Salem in 1993 to marry my fiancee, Kristen Blake. Stefano told Kristen that before he died, he wanted to see us marry. Kristen agreed to marry me, even though she loved John Black. However, Kristen left me at the altar to help John Black find Marlena and Roman's daughter, Belle.
Kristen's best friend Billie Reed decided to turn her life around and started her own cosmetics company called Countess Willamina. To fund her company, Billie convinced Alice and Maggie Horton to become investors. Unfortunately, Kate Roberts bought out Countess Willamina to spite Billie for posing as the author of Jack's manuscript. Later that year, Billie, being Kristen's best friend, befriended me as well. In efforts to help Billie and make Kristen happy, I bought up 49% of Titan Industries and then brought Billie into Titan to run the Countess Willamina division.
Kristen and I were about to marry when John showed up at the wedding, claiming that he had evidence linking Stefano to Curtis Reed's murder. When Stefano hopped in a car and drive off, John shot at the tires. Stefano had planned it so his car would go off the road and he would be "killed" in the crash. Kristen, blaming John for her father's death, married me on February 18, 1994. I learned later that Stefano was alive, but I kept it a secret because I feared Kristen would leave me.
In the summer of 1994, Kristen, Peter, Jen, Bo, Billie and I went to Maison Blanche for a charity event Kristen organized. While there, Billie saw a woman who looked like Bo's dead wife Hope, but nobody would believe her. Hope was at Maison Blanche, but she was called Gina by Stefano and Celeste. Roman also showed up, but to arrest Peter Blake for trafficking drugs in one of his clubs. A jealous Celeste leaked gas into the cell where John and Marlena were being held and started a fire. Roman managed to rescue them. John came out and shocked both Kristen and I, who were horrified to see John in shackles. Kristen looked up and screamed when she spotted her dead father, Stefano. To stop Kristen from running into the burning house, I ran back into the house to try and retrieve my father's computer for Kristen, which contained a file on John's past. Maison Blanche exploded. I got the computer, but got caught in the explosion and went blind.
Kristen began sleeping with John. Later Kristen learned that I knew that Stefano was alive all along and that I had switched Kristen's birth control pills with sugar pills in efforts to get her pregnant. Kristen left me and began living with John Black in his loft. Kristen also managed to crack the notebook computer from Maison Blanche and was horrified to learn that John was a priest. Kristen told John the truth, but he refused to believe it. John and Kristen traveled to a parish where John served and his mentor, Father Francis, recognized him as Father Black. He was also recognized by a woman from the parish. John had put his handprints in a wall near the parish and he was shocked when they matched. John was forced to accept that he was a priest. Though he wanted to be released from his vows, a friend told John to live as a priest for awhile in order to see what he was giving up.
Because of John's commitment to the church, Kristen returned to me. Overcome by jealousy, I bought a gun and was planning on killing John. When Kristen told me that John was a priest, I backed off from killing him. Later that year I regained my sight, but I pretended I was still blind in hopes of catching Kristen and John together.
When John Black was released from his vows as a priest, Kristen left me to be with John. I soon learned that I had a rare and fatal blood disease that would end my life. I quickly formulated a plan in which I would frame John for my murder. I wrote my entire plan down in a diary and I also confessed it to Father Francis. When I learned that Father Francis was going to tell John Black the truth, I confronted Father Francis. I took Father Francis' blood pressure pills and agitated him into a heart attack. Later, I cut off Father Francis' oxygen at the hospital which caused him to lapse into a coma.
I went to Aremid for Peter Blake and Jennifer Deveraux's wedding and I set a trap at the Blake House for John. At the wedding reception, I worked John into a frenzy and got him to shout out that he would kill me. I then went up to my room and lured John up there by placing a phone call to John. I disguised my voice and told John that Tony was the one who attempted to kill Father Francis. Up in my room, John and I argued loudly so everyone at the wedding reception could hear us. John eventually left through another door, which I had sprinkled gunpowder on. I then began begging John not to shoot me as various Salemites listened in. I then activated a device which caused my gun to shoot at me and then fall to the floor. When the Salemites had finally gotten into the room, I was mortally wounded. I died, but one thing ruined my plan, the Woman in White got a hold of my diary which I realized before taking my last breath I forgot to get rid of. As I breathed my last, I watched the Woman in White make off with my diary.
It was seven years before the citizens of Salem learned that I was not dead, and had in fact been alive all this time...I made a grand re-entrance at John and Marlena's anniversary party. The man who died in Aremid was not me, but my presumed dead lookalike cousin André. I still suffer from a rare blood disease. Soon I found out that twins Rex and Cassie were my children with Marlena. I also learned that John Black was really my half-brother, from his mother Daphne's side. I eventually learned that Rex and Cassie were not my children after all, and was furious with Stefano, knowing that my father did it on purpose.
I was the number one suspect for the Salem Stalker murders until Mickey Horton agreed to defend me, and got me out on bail. The night of the Horton Circus, I took center stage, promising to reveal the killer. While dragging out the moment for dramatic purposes, I had a bucket of blood dumped on me, and was attacked by Horton the tiger. I was in the hospital, recovering from my wounds, when the Salem Stalker came in to administer a fatal dose of drugs. My last words to my killer clarified my knowledge of who the Salem Stalker was, as I looked up into Marlena Evans' eyes. I died while trying desperately to communicate the truth to the others.
Months later, it was discovered that I was one of the many Salem residents who was not killed after all and was now living on the island of Melaswen. I had hidden myself for quite sometime, and when I made myself known, the other residents didn't trust me. After sabotaging every attempt the islanders made to get to freedom, I was finally revealed as the mastermind behind the whole shebang, a plot I cooked up to get back at everyone who had wronged me. I had never forgotten about my previous wife, Kristen, who left me for John Black years earlier. I again faked my death, making certain the island residents believed I was deceased, but when not all of the Salem residents made it home, I revealed himself as their captor.
All the captives eventually escaped, but I wasn't finished wreaking havoc on the citizens of Salem. Using an intermediary, I enlisted Sami Brady into a scheme to punish all of those who had done her wrong, while satisfying my own need for revenge. Sami eventually turned on me after I took Lucas, Brady, Philip, Shawn and Rex hostage, but because she was involved for months, I held it over her head, and used the information she got me to try to break out of jail. Unfortunately, I was ultimately unsuccessful.
But I made it out and you will see me back in Salem May 24! What will I do next?
My contact information:
430 Lakeview Dr.
Salem, USA 06649
