| Victor Newman |
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| Eric Braeden as Victor Newman |
| The Young and the Restless |
| Portrayed by |
Eric Braeden |
| Duration |
1980–2009, 2010— |
| First appearance |
February 1980 |
| Created by |
William J. Bell |
| Profile |
| Nickname(s) |
The Great Victor Newman
The Black Knight
[Mr.] Mumbles
[Mr.] [The] Moustache
Moneybags (by Jack & Billy) |
| Aliases |
Christian Miller
(birth name) |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
- Owner and Chairman of the Board of Newman Enterprises
- Former Secret Owner of Jabot Cosmetics
- Owner of NVP Retreats
- Former CEO of Newman Enterprises, a worldwide conglomerate
- Market Street Recreation Center creator and former manager
- Former CEO of Chancellor Industries
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| Title |
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Newman Enterprises |
| Residence |
The Newman Ranch
421 Larkspur Trail, Highway B
Genoa City, Wisconsin |
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Victor Christian Newman (born Christian Miller) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by actor Eric Braeden since 1980. The patriarch of the Newman family, Victor has been widely known for his relationships with Nikki Reed, Ashley Abbott and Diane Jenkins, as well as his business, rivalry with Jack Abbott and others in Genoa City and being intertwined in the lives of his children. Victor is considered one of daytime's most iconic people apart of soap operas. He also briefly appeared on The Bold and the Beautiful in 1999.
Eric Braeden has played the role from the start.[1] Victor was originally intended to be a short-term character as part of a six-month storyline, but developed into a lead character.[2] Braeden won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role.
In 2009, Braeden experienced multiple contract negotiation issues,[3] leading to a brief exit.
Eric Braeden (
pictured) has become a vital part of the series
The contract he signed in 2007 was to last until November 2010, however he taped his final scenes on September 23, 2009 (returning later).[4] On the situation of the show cutting his contract, Braeden stated during an interview "When I sign a three-year deal, I'm obligated to fulfill that deal. The producers, however, can come to me after a half-year and say, 'We've changed our minds.' Where in the world of business does this kind of contract exist? Do I blame the people for wanting to squeeze as much out of us as they can? I do not. The question is, when do you squeeze too much?"[4] Despite this, during the contract negotiations, Braeden refused to say that he had departed fully, but that it may be a long time until he returned.[4] In 2010, Braeden celebrated 30 years on the show.[5]
Much of his history on the series revolves around his long-running conflict with rival businessman Jack Abbott (portrayed originally by Terry Lester, and since 1989 by Peter Bergman), his ruthless nature, many marriages, and the infamous triangle involving Victor and ex-wives Ashley Abbott and Nikki Reed.[6][7]
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Victor is loving and protective toward family and loved ones, but if crossed, or if Victor feels that one is not living up to one's full potential; then he can more than live up to the adjective that many have used to describe him ruthless. –– Official website description[8] |
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Victor Newman was born Christian Miller on March 7, in Buffalo, New York. He was put in an orphanage by is mother, Cora Miller. He left the orphanage and started to work his way through to victory, becoming one of the world's most wealthy tycoons. He changed his name to "Victor Newman", Victor standing for Victorious and Newman standing for new-man, as he was a complete new man.[8]
In the late 1970s, Victor and Julia Newman are married. Only three years later in 1980, Victor relocates to Genoa City with his wife (Meg Bennett) to assist Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) with running Chancellor Industries. While he works, he keeps her in seclusion at the ranch house Katherine sells him. Victor eventually builds his own company Newman Enterprises into a worldwide conglomerate which makes him a multibillionaire. Victor ends up having numerous affairs of his own during this time, including with Eve Howard and Lorie Brooks. Longing for enjoyment, Julia ends up becoming good friends with Katherine's son Brock Reynolds. However, nothing sexual ever happened in that relationship and Julia wanted to be faithful to Victor. However, when Brock caught Victor and Lorie kissing, he tried to resume his romance with Julia, but he finally left town because of Julia's inability to end her marriage to Victor. Thinking it would convince Victor of her love for him, Julia told him that she wanted to have a baby. Victor responded by having a vasectomy without telling her. Julia later applies for a modeling job with a photographer, Michael Scott, who is attracted to her. While Victor is out of town, Eve Howard threatens Julia that she is going to try to get Victor to herself. Saddened and confused, Julia sleeps with Michael. When Victor returns, he tries to fight off Eve, and eventually accepts her son, Cole Howard, as his son so long as she leaves Genoa City. As for Julia, she becomes pregnant, and a jealous Victor is convinced that Michael Scott was the father.
In retaliation, Victor imprisons Michael in a bomb shelter at the Newman Ranch, but Julia finds him there and frees him. While attempting to flee together, Victor happens upon the pair and a fist fight between Victor and Michael ensues. In an unfortunate incident, Julia is caught in the crossfire and suffers a terrible fall leading to her miscarry. The examination from blood tests proves that Victor was, in fact, the biological father before Julia and Michael leave town. Julia later ends up in Paris, and Victor turns his attention to stripper Nikki Reed and newspaper company heir Lorie Brooks.
A short time earlier, Victor took control of Prentiss Industries, owned by the Prentiss family. Lucas Prentiss was Lorie Brooks' former brother-in-law and wanted his family's company back. By 1982, Lorie ended up scheming with Lucas to get control of Prentiss Industries again. Their plan called for Lorie seducing Victor into marriage and then just before the wedding convince him to sign over to her the controlling stock shares in Prentiss. It worked. Before the ceremony, Victor handed Lorie a document that gave her control of Prentiss Industries. Shortly thereafter, Victor searched for Lorie who had suddenly disappeared. Instead, he found a letter from Lorie, with her engagement ring, informing him that she wasn't interested in marrying him. A saddened Victor turned to Nikki Reed and they began an affair.
Early in his affair with Nikki, she becomes pregnant and the paternity of the child is questioned of whether it is Victor's or Nikki's husband's Kevin Bancroft. Nikki ends her marriage to Kevin, and begins a romance with a con man Rick Daros. Rick tried numerous times to kill Nikki, but each time Paul Williams, Andy Richards, and Victor save Nikki just in time. The child ends up being Victor's and they name the girl, Victoria Nicole Newman.
Around 1983, Eve Howard returns to Genoa City with her new lover, Max Siebalt. Originally, Eve came back to make sure Victor was providing for their child, Cole. However, when she learns that Victor put Cole in his will, she and Max begin to scheme a way to get a hold of Victor's money now. Eve is able to convince Victor to hire her as an assistant. In Paris, Julia Newman eventually gets wind of this scheme, and returns to try to protect Victor. Eve began poisoning Victor's food, and it was caught just in time. Victor then tries to scheme against Eve into confessing. Victor plans on marrying Eve, and on the day of their wedding, Victor "dies" leaving Nikki deeply saddened. Later, Eve and Max are later shocked to see that Victor is alive and she is sent away to the sanitarium. Finally, Victor is able to be with Nikki and they marry on April 13, 1984, right before Eve attempted to stab Nikki before the ceremony.[9] A year later, Eve and Rick Daros, the man who tried repeatedly to kill Nikki, return again, while Victor and Nikki are vacationing. Rick, however, had amnesia, and forget he had tried to kill Nikki. Nonetheless, they were able to steal some money from Victor and later escape to Europe together.
Victor and Nikki's marriage seemed to be very genuine. In fact, Nikki arranged for Victor to meet with his mother for the first time since he was a little boy. However, that reconciliation was brief and his mother, Cora Miller, died soon after. Soon after, Victor began his affair with Jack Abbott's sister, Ashley Abbott. It began as Ashley learned the truth about her parentage; being Dina Mergeron and Brent Davis's, daughter, not John Abbott's. This caused her to be extremely traumatized and she ended up at a diner in the middle of nowhere with no memory. Victor came looking for her and eventually found her. When he brought her back to Genoa City, they began their affair.
Nikki tried to fight off Ashley, and even has an affair with Jack just to spite Victor. Nikki even arranged for Victor's brother, Matt Miller, to seduce Ashley, but it proved too little too late; Victor wanted to be with Ashley. However, once Nikki got cancer, Victor returned to Nikki and Ashley aborted the child she conceived with Victor which causes her to have a nervous breakdown. Eventually, Nikki went into remission, allowing Victor to return to Ashley, but by now she had moved on with her psychiatrist, Steven Lassiter. Luckily, for Victor, Steven was later shot by one of his patients.
Victor and Jack Abbott hire Leanna “Love” Randolph to write a biography on Victor himself. Jack intends to have his version of the book be a tell-all entitled Ruthless: The Victor Newman Story. Unknowingly to Jack, Leanna adds a chapter that exploits the affair between Victor and Ashley. By this time, Victor and Nikki's marriage was falling apart, and he believed she was behind the publication. Victor divorces her and to prove to the press he didn't divorce Nikki to be with Ashley, he marries Leanna, but it was declared invalid since his divorce from Nikki wasn't final. Despite that, Victor stays with Leanna until the revelation. Victor then returns to Nikki and they have another child together, Nicholas Newman. Victor also proceeds to avenge his degradation by gaining reigns over Jack’s family company, Jabot Cosmetics, which Jack had recently convinced his father to make a public company. With Victor now in control, he fired Jack and replaced him with Brad Carlton. In response, Jack spitefully marries Nikki after Victor and Nikki had another falling out.
By now, Victor had married Ashley Abbott, and Leanna went on to national fame because of a "I Hate Men Campaign" and a daytime talk show. Back on the business front, Victor offered to return Jabot in exchange for Jack agreeing to end his marriage with Nikki Abbott. Jack agreed, but because of a legal loophole, Jack didn't regain complete control, thus he stayed with Nikki. At one point, Victor and Jack had such a confrontation regarding Nikki, that Victor had a heart attack. Jack famously left Victor alone in the office, but he ended up surviving. Nikki, however, was dealing with a number of other serious problems by this time. She was now facing a serious alcohol problem and had recently gave birth to John Abbott III, a stillborn, which both Jack and Nikki blamed on Victor. Also threatening Jack and Nikki's marriage was Victoria's hope to see her parents together again. However, Jack ended up saving Victoria's life when she nearly drowned in the Abbott Mansion pool. Yet, Ashley knew that Victor's true love was Nikki and nothing would change that. Ashley and Victor decided to divorce by 1993.
With Victor single again, he began romancing Jill Abbott. Little did Victor know, but Jill's romance with Victor was her way of annoying Jack and Ashley Abbott were wanting her no where near Jabot and their father John Abbott. Yet, Jill quickly discovered that Victor had no real intention to keep their relationship going, especially when Nikki Abbott finally decided to divorce Jack. However, Jill was pregnant, but she figured that it was John Abbott's. And that was exactly the case, but John remained suspicious.
Noticing the talents of a young attorney, Christine (Cricket) Blair, Victor hired her to be a part of his legal team. Not long after, Christine entered Victor's office to find him on the floor with a gunshot wound. Victor survived, and the mystery of who shot him carried on for months. Jack, of course, was a suspect, due to an incident years earlier in which Victor had a heart attack while arguing with Jack, and Jack leaving him to die. Jill was also a suspect, said to be angry for the way Victor used her and then dumped her. In the end, it was found out that Mary Jo Mason was the shooter. Victor was aware of many devious things Mary Jo was up to and had threatened to tell Jack, whom she was obsessed with. Mary Jo was unstable and shot Victor to keep him from ruining her plans. Mary Jo was sent to a prison for the mentally insane.
After nearly a decade, Eve Howard returned to Genoa City hoping that Victor would be interested to form a relationship with his son Cole Howard. Originally uninterested, he would later change his mind. Eve later brought Cole to Genoa City, and while he built up a relationship with Victoria without knowing the truth about Victor. Eve left town again as did Victor to Kansas where he met a blind woman named Hope Adams. They marry and have a son named Victor Adam Newman, Jr.. Cole had by this time began a romantic relationship with Nikki and Victoria. When Cole wrote to Eve that he had fallen in love with Victor Newman's daughter and they were getting married, Eve arranged to leave the cruise she was on, and rush to Genoa City. She ended up falling into a coma after a mosquito bit her on the plane ride back.
When Victor and Hope returned to find Victoria and Cole married, he told Cole that he was his father and the marriage was annulled. However, once Eve died, the truth came out that Cole's father was actually Marvin Oakley, a former lover of Eve's. With that news, Victoria and Cole remarried and tried to have a child. The daughter, Eve Nicole Howard, died several days after birth. With Victor returned to his business operations, Hope found it difficult to stay in Genoa City and she and Victor divorced. She ended up marrying Cliff Wilson back in Kansas, where he adopted Victor Jr. and the child grew up not knowing that Victor was his father.
Fueling his feud with Jack, Victor marries the former girlfriend of his rival, Diane Jenkins (Alex Donnelley). Diane wants to have a child with Victor, but Nikki’s jealousy erupts sparking a feud with Diane. Nikki tries to convince Victor to have a vasectomy, a method that prevents him from reproducing, thus causing huge problems between the two. When Nikki is mortally wounded by her husband's ex-wife Veronica Landers and perceived to be in critical condition, Victor divorces Diane and remarries Nikki on her deathbed intending to remarry Diane after Nikki’s passing. However, Nikki remarkably survives leaving Diane concerned for her relationship with Victor, who breaks it off with her. However, Victor and Nikki's remarriage is declared invalid thus they had another marriage ceremony. However, the truth was that Victor and Diane were still married, thus leading to a bitter divorce battle in which Diane hires Michael Baldwin to represent her and she even goes on Leanna Love's TV show to draw up public support. Eventually, a divorce settlement was made which included a seat on the Newman Board. Making matters even worse, Jack Abbott and Brad Carlton were able take over as Newman Enterprise CEOs. An angry and defeated Victor ended up walking into their office, formerly his, and destroy a newly hung portrait of Jack and Brad. Victor was eventually able to regain control.
With Nikki and Victor back together, she hopes to have a third child with Victor, but he refused and got a vasectomy, storing sperm in a sperm bank for future probability. Victor ended having another affair as did Nikki with Brad Carlton, thus ending their hopes at another marriage.
Despite Diane's divorce from Victor, she remained affectionate towards Victor, and she stole the sperm intending to impregnate herself with his child. After a round of thefts by Nikki and Ashley before regaining it, in a twist of fate, Diane ends up pregnant with Jack Abbott's son through his sperm bank donation. However, Diane didn't know yet, only Nikki. Eventually, Diane learns the truth and Jack and his new wife Phyllis Abbott ended up suing for custody of Kyle. Similarly, Ashley ends up getting a hold of Victor's sperm and impregnates herself. However, once Abby is born, she goes on five years thinking that Brad Carlton is her father. By 2002, Victor's old fiancée Lorie Brooks returned to town as her soon to be ex-husband Max Hollister was threatening to take over Julia Newman Martin's design firm. Victor came to Julia's aid and was able to force Max to sell Julia's company to him. Victor promised Julia, that her company could work within Newman Enterprises and she could remain in charge. Max, however, wanted revenge. He ended up contacting Leanna Love and appeared on her TV show suggesting that Victor was seeing his ex-wives again. During this time, Victor and Nikki reunited again and actually were preparing to remarry.
When Lorie wanted Max to sign the divorce papers, he forced her hand in a new scheme against Victor. He planned on having Lorie seduce Victor at a hotel room, while Nikki was in the hotel for a lunch. Victor and Lorie's room would be videotaped and seen by Nikki. As Victor and Lorie talked, Lorie decided she couldn't hurt Victor and therefore she never turned on the camera. Max ended up getting annoyed and dragged Nikki into the hotel room just as Victor and Lorie were hugging. Both Victor and Nikki figured it was a set up and he began to fight with Lorie. Once Victor left, Lorie and Max fought and she felt awful for hurting Victor. They both left as Victor and Nikki remarried.
Victor is diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy from head trauma after rescuing Nikki from a carjacking attempt. Jack learns of his health and takes advantage of him for a period of time. Having been estranged for years, an unseen friendship forms between them and one Victor even plays up after stabilizing his condition. Ultimately, Victor feels betrayed by Jack again but this time he is personally offended due to their friendship. Victor reveals the truth by informing Jack of knowing that he, not Jim Min Kim (Eric Steinberg), owns Jabot Cosmetics. These deals regarding Jabot and the new company NVP Retreats, began to take a toll on his marriage to Nikki Newman as she took up a professional career of her own. By 2007, Nikki ended up running for a State Senate seat against Jack Abbott. Interestingly, Victor supported Jack in the election and even hired David Chow to be Jack's campaign manager. As manager, David released a scandalous video of Nikki resulting in his termination from the campaign. However, Nikki picked up David to work for her. Nikki and David ended up becoming close and they had an affair and in retaliation Nikki sharing a kiss, which Victor saw. Nikki ended up losing, but she continued her affair with David. However, she tried to end things later, but they couldn't stay apart.
A leave from Genoa City sees Victor by the deathbed of Hope Adams as she suffers her final moments battling with pancreatic cancer. Before she passes, Hope gives her son enlightenment of Victor being his biological father unraveling that she raised him with Cliff Wilson, who she made him entrust as his father and had his last name changed from Newman to Wilson all after she divorced Victor. It becomes within Victor’s strong will after Hope dies that his son Adam joins him at Newman Enterprises.
After years of martial issues, but most recently Nikki's affair with David Chow and a business lawsuit, Victor and Nikki divorced in 2008. Adam arrives in Genoa City filling the void as son and right-hand man for his dad in Newman Enterprises as Victor and Nick were currently fighting. Victor finds romance with Sabrina Costelana, a friend of Victoria’s from Florence, Italy. Victoria disapproves of the relationship and is further angered by their plan to marry. Likewise is Nick, but more in regards to Victor’s controlling ways in business. Victor wields his corporate power shifting Victoria’s company position and giving it to Adam, that heightens her bitterness of Adam in town, enough that she opts to resign from her father’s company. Adam moves into her office and accepts Victor’s offer of residence at the Newman Ranch. Not long later, tension escalates in the family once Victor hands Adam full reign of the company’s cosmetic line.
Victor married a pregnant Sabrina Costelana in June 2008, but just shy of two months later, Sabrina and her unborn baby are killed in the result of a car crash that also claims David Chow. Her death causes an emotional downward spiral for Victor seeking the avengement of her death from Walter Palin, who arranged the tragedy. Victor sets out to Mexico for a fleeing Walter hiding in a secure location, and goes on a boat ride with Walter where he confronts him. Victor refrains from killing him, but leaves him for dead as the boat is taken down in the duration of a storm. Nikki tries to reach out to Victor along with his children, but are all met with rejection. Victor also discharges Adam from his company after discovering his crude ways while absent. Nikki, knowing Ashley will be able to reach Victor while she cannot, contacts her. Ashley searches for him in Paris and guides him back from his suicidal depression and the two romantically reunite.
For the murder of Walter, Victor is apprehended during his return to Genoa City. However, Jack and Adam had published a fake diary falsely believed to have belonged to Victor, forging his confession to the murder. Consequently, Victor is cleared of the crime, but only Adam is arrested for partaking in the distribution of the diary while Jack ensured he profoundly covered himself to avoid prosecution. With Adam imprisoned, Victor pursues revenge against Jack within gaining controlling interest in Jabot and causes issues among the Abbott siblings despite this hurting Ashley too. He later relinquishes his shares of the company to Jill Foster Abbott in a trade for her agreement to exhume Marge Cotrooke’s body whom Jill, at the time, believes to be her presumed mother, Katherine Chancellor. Although she miscarried, Ashley psychologically effected, chooses to name her baby with Victor, Hope Newman.
Victor begins interacting with a bandaged woman. Her condition is a result of a plastic surgery done to resemble Dr. Emily Peterson that Victor finances in his ploy to have her infiltrate Jabot Cosmetics, including getting close with his enemy, Jack, in his ongoing revenge. After her transition, she introduces herself to the Abbott family as Mary Jane Benson and is hired in Public Relations in Jabot. Victor’s business partnership with Mary dilapidates when Mary becomes unstable and dangerous in her affectionate pursuit of Jack, prompting Victor into willingly wanting to pay her away from Genoa City.
In July 2009, Victor remarried Ashley Abbott in a small ceremony at the Newman Ranch. It is gradually revealed that Mary is factually Jack’s first wife, Patty Williams. A month thereafter, Victor’s dog Zapato is suspected to be a victim of poisoning by Mary, who is being mischievous towards the Newman family. After examined by the vet, Zapato died. That night, Victor is informed by Nikki of her cancelled wedding with Paul Williams, referencing her strong lifetime affection for Victor though skeptical of a reunion, but considers him to be a husband despite his other marriages and kids, before she left town after a mentally unstable Ashley Newman ran over her thinking it was Sabrina. Later, Victor confronted Patty in regards to her immoral perpetrations and this ends critical when Victor is shot and suffers a heart failure. Victor was saved by a heart transplant from Colleen Carlton, who dies from a brain dead state after falling into a lake trying to escape from Patty. When Nikki heard, she returned and Victor claimed his eternal love for her. Unfortunately Ashley overheard and divorced Victor. Victor ended up leaving to Europe with Nikki to recover.
Victor returned and vowed to reclaim control of his company, which Adam had ruined. Victor now fully despises Adam. Adam ends up being found "dead" while Victoria and Nick were arrested. In order to protect his children, Victor took the blame. Victor was released, but Nick was later the new suspect. However, there was a growing amount of proof to suggest that Adam killed Richard Hightower to fake his own death. To help Nick, Victor went to Canada to find Adam where he befriended Meggie McClaine and he ends up nearly being killed; Victor returns later without Adam. He and Sharon travel to Brazil and find Adam there, who is brought back home and arrested. Once his marriage to Ashley is over, he is engaged to Nikki; but Meggie is living with them too for her protection, and she also became Nikki's personal assistant. Nikki begun to drink, and it was revealed that Meggie was sabotaging her to marry Victor, as she has a history of marrying men and then killing them for their money. Victor married Meggie, however then turned her in. Thinking Victor had moved on from her, Nikki slept with Deacon Sharpe, who was actually helping Meggie spike her drinks which was unknown then. Nikki went to rehab and continued her sexual relationship with Deacon; while Victor resented her for this. Later, Victor's children (Nick, Victoria, Abby) had a lawsuit against him for their mistreat, ironically Adam wasn't apart of this. The judge ruled in favor of Abby, Victoria, and Nick giving them $500 million each. Victor later pursued his ex-wife, Diane (now played by Maura West). At the same time she was with Victor, she was sleeping with his son Nick too. When Nikki and Victor agreed to end things for good, he and Diane eloped. She moved in to the ranch with her son, Kyle. However, he had an affair with Nikki, he drew up annulment papers against Diane, but tore them when he saw Nikki with Deacon.
Months earlier, Victor shocked everyone that Newman Enterprises would go public, thus affording Victor the $1.5 billion to each children. The day of the IPO, Diane Jenkins and Adam Newman created a scheme that would make it seem as if Victor died, and stock prices fell. Diane was later found dead in a lake, murdered. Victor was a suspect however wasn't charged. When Nikki returned from rehab after months she told Victor that she killed Diane despite fuzzy memories about the night. Victor, wanting to protect her told the police that he murdered Diane and Adam said he witnessed it. Victor proposed to and married Sharon, who supported him greatly while he was in jail. It turned out that Nikki in fact killed Diane in self defense and thus all charges against all former suspects in Diane's death were dropped.
With Adam currently CEO of Newman Enterprises he wanted to sell Beauty of Nature but this failed when Victor gave Sharon his proxy and had her vote against it. Victor then told her to vote in favor of selling in order to trap Adam for insider trading but Sharon at the last minute realized Victor's plan and informed Adam. Adam and Sharon started their romance again and Victor had his marriage to Sharon annulled. Beauty of Nature was sold to a company named FMN which was revealed to be owned by Genevieve Atkinson. Victor tried to buy it back from FMN but she refused. Victor followed Genevieve to Paris where he is attempting to get it back. Victor eventually acquires Beauty Of Nature back from Genevieve and announces it at the party for his grandson, John Abbott, with the presence of Genevieve.
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