Don Diamont plays 'Brad Carlton'

• Brad Carlton has made his way up the corporate ladder by working hard and marrying well.
• Brad first made the scene as the Abbott groundskeeper, hired by Jill Abbott, John Abbott's wife at the time.
• Brad wed Traci Abbott and earned a spot on the Jabot Cosmetics sales team.
• Trouble hit Brad's marriage when he had an affair with Lauren Fenmore, Traci's nemesis.
• Next, Lisa Mansfield, Brad's unstable ex-wife, kidnapped him and locked him in a cage. Eventually, Jack rescued Brad. Brad made his way home just as Traci was divorcing him.
• Brad flirted with Ashley to make Traci jealous and developed genuine feelings for her.
• After losing Ashley to Victor, Brad went to work for Cassandra Rawlins, who drugged Brad and wed him. Brad was left a wealthy widower when Cassandra died before their divorce could be finalised.
• Next, Brad re-married Traci, who gave birth to their daughter Colleen. Traci grew jealous of Ashley and divorced Brad for a second time.
• Brad survived a heart attack after renewing his relationship with Lauren.
• He moved on to a romance with Nikki Newman. But Brad left town after Nikki deserted him at the altar to attend to Victor, who'd been shot.
• Brad returned a few years later and allied himself with former foe Jack, who wanted to bring down Victor.
• Brad wed Ashley right after she gave birth to little Abby.
• Brad kept a watchful eye over Colleen, now a teen. He supported Ashley through her breast cancer ordeal, but Victor's constant presence in Ashley's life – and the revelation that he had fathered Abby – pushed Brad into the arms of Olivia Winters. Brad and a pregnant Ashley reunited.
• Tragically, Ashley lost her son, whom she named Robert, after getting in an automobile accident while on her way to confront Victor over a business deal.
• Brad and Ashley divorced and he remained Abby's primary parental caretaker. Brad and Victoria Newman began dating and after they wed, Victoria gave her new groom, preferential work duties.
• While on a business trip to New York, Brad and Sharon succumbed to their desires and had a one-night stand.
• Meanwhile, in the course of an investigation for Victor, Paul Williams and J.T. learned that the man who called himself Brad Carlton wasn't born with that name. They later discovered that Brad's real name is George Kaplan, an alias he assumed after his father, sister and aunt were brutally murdered when he was a teenager. He and his mother, Rebecca, were forced to go on the run because of her dangerous work of returning artwork stolen by the Nazis from Jewish families during World War II.
• In a dramatic stand-off in a church outside Cleveland, Ohio, Brad confronted the men who had killed his family, who were now holding Sharon hostage, and killed his enemies in self-defence.
• It was also revealed that Brad is Jewish, a part of his identity that he had kept hidden all these years. Brad found himself re-connecting with his heritage, and began educating daughters Colleen and Abby in the Jewish religion.
• Brad is being blackmailed by Phyllis as she is now aware of Brad’s indiscretion with Sharon.

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