J.R. Chandler Jr.
Actor History
Charlotte and Margaret Baughman (1989 to 1992; recurring)
Kevin Alexander (1992 to 1996; recurring)
Jesse McCartney (1998 to 2001; recurring and contract)
Jonathan Bennett (November 2001 to 13 September 2002; contract)
Andrew Ridings (recurring: 31 October 2002 to 24 February 2003)
Jacob Young (contract: 2 October 2003 to present)
Lifeline
Born 1989
In May 2001 was said to be 14 years of age.
In July 2001 was said by Tad to be 13 years of age.
In January 2003 was said to be 17 years of age.
Other Names
Junior
A.J. (briefly in 1999)
J.R. (since February 2001)
Adam Chandler Jr. (full name)
Occupation
Former CEO of Chandler Enterprises [Fired Jul 19th, 2004]
Former musician, teamed with schoolmates to form "Dream Street."
Student at Pine Valley High School
Resides At
Chandler Mansion (300 River Road)
Formerly 646 Holland Avenue
Marital Status
Single/Divorced (Babe Carey) [Married: March 23rd, 2006; Divorced: April 16th, 2007]
Past Marriages
Babe Carey [Married: Summer 2003; invalid]
Babe Carey [Married June 2nd, 2004; Divorced: February 28th, 2005]
Babe Carey [Married: March 23rd, 2006; Divorced: April 16th, 2007]
Relatives
Adam Chandler (father)
Dixie Cooney (mother; deceased)
Hayley Vaughan (paternal half-sister)
Anna Claire Chandler (paternal half-sister; deceased)
Colby Marian Chandler (paternal half-sister)
Kathy Mershon (maternal half-sister)
Paul 'Seabone' Hunkle (maternal grandfather)
Bess Cooney (maternal grandmother; deceased)
Stuart Chandler (paternal uncle)
Charlotte Chandler (paternal aunt; deceased)
Will Cortlandt (maternal uncle; deceased)
Melanie Cortlandt (maternal aunt)
Del Henry (maternal half-uncle)
Diana Henry (maternal half-aunt)
Scott Chandler (paternal cousin; via adoption)
Ross Chandler (paternal cousin / maternal first cousin once removed)
Lorenzo Hector Santos (paternal nephew)
Julie Rand Chandler (paternal first cousin once removed / maternal second cousin)
Palmer Cortlandt (maternal great-uncle)
Nina Cortlandt (maternal first cousin once removed)
Andrew Preston (maternal first cousin once removed; via adoption)
Peter Cortlandt (maternal first cousin once removed)
Bobby Warner (maternal second cousin; via adoption)
Michael Warner (maternal second cousin)
Samuel Carlos Grey (maternal second cousin once removed; via adoption)
Children
Adam Chandler III (son; with Babe; born 22 March 2004)
Flings & Affairs
Mary Frances "Frankie" Stone ("Heavy Petting")
Laurie Lewis (Dated)
Kendall Hart (Kissed)
Kendall Hart (One-night stand)
Amanda Dillon (One-night stand)
Crimes Committed
Ran away from home.
Paid Philomena Lacy to write a term paper; Suspended from school. [May 9th, 2001]
Attempted to bribe a police officer. [May 10th, 2001]
Assaulting a police officer. [May 10th, 2001]
Theft; Stole his father's car [May 15th, 2001]
Driving without a license. [May 15th, 2001]
Drug use. [May 16th, 2001; May 23rd, 2001]
Held in contempt for not showing at a court hearing. [May 16th, 2001]
Driving under the influence of drugs. [May 16th, 2001]
Destruction of property (Crashed his father's car). [May 16th, 2001]
Breaking and Entering/Trespassing at David's Valley Inn room [Jun 7th, 2001]
Accomplice to theft (Drugs from David's medical bag) [Jun 8th, 2001]
Reckless Endangerment (Left Ken's lifeless body outside the hospital and took off) -Jun 8th, 2001]
Skipped his assigned community service. [Jun 2001]
Violated his probation by smoking a joint with Frankie the day she was killed.
Assaulted David Hayward [May 24th, 2002]
Laced Babe's drink with a mood-altering drug, resulting in an overdose that nearly killed her. [Jul 2004]
Filed a false police report saying that a man kidnapped Bess. [Jul 13th, 2004]
Had a videotape altered to make it appear as though Babe had threatened to kill JR and used the tape to blackmail Babe. [Oct 2004]
Assault; Clubbed Jamie over the head with a wrench. [Dec 8th, 2004]
Held a gun to Tad Martin and threatened to kill him. [Jan 24th, 2005]
Assault; Pinned Jamie under a motorcycle [Apr 2005]
Bribed a judge to terminate Babe's visitation rights. [Fall of 2005]
Driving while intoxicated and hit Amanda Dillon with his car. [Nov 4th, 2005]
Nearly killed Kendall and her unborn child while attempting to kill Babe. [Spring 2006]
With Jamie, locked Josh Madden in a meatlocker. [late June 2006]
Maladies and Hospitalizations
History of alcohol abuse
Contracted hepatitis A after his bone marrow was stolen from him. [Spring 2008]
Brief Character History
Adam hired Dixie to be Laura's nanny (Brooke's daughter), and Dixie stayed on as a servant after Laura was killed by a drunk driver. Adam wanted a son desperately, but Brooke was unable to give him one. Adam was determined to produce his own blood heir, so he slept with Dixie in the Chandler boathouse and she became pregnant. Dixie gave birth to Junior in 1989, and Adam plotted to secretly adopt him. Brooke would never know the child was his. But when Junior was born, Dixie refused to give him up, demanding that Adam make a choice between her and Brooke. Adam told Dixie she was his choice. Brooke overheard their conversation and was disgusted. She packed her bags and went to Jackson Montgomery, who helped her win half of Adam's fortune. Scrambling to secure his legacy, Adam promised to marry Dixie. He then attempted to drive Dixie insane and get her to commit herself to Laurel Hill, a mental institution. If his plan was successful, Junior would be solely Adam's. Tad realized what Adam was up to and helped Dixie escape from the hospital. Tad and Dixie married in 1989.
In 1990, Tad was presumed dead when a bomb exploded as he struggled with Billy Clyde Tuggle on a railroad bridge after saving Dixie after she was kidnapped. After living in California with amnesia, under the assumed name of Ted Orsini, Tad returned to Pine Valley with Brooke's help in 1993. Dixie and Tad married again in 1995. In 1996, Junior told Dixie he saw Tad kissing Liza. Eventually, Dixie divorced Tad and moved to Pigeon Hollow with Junior. In 1998, Adam got a court order for temporary custody of Junior using Camille Hawkins as a reason. Dixie moved back to Pine Valley with Junior and eventually decided to stay. Lee Hawkins kidnapped Junior and Hayley; Junior escaped with Hayley's help. Dixie and Tad were married a third time in 1999, and Adam became jealous of Tad's influence over Junior. He tried to put Junior in a boarding school, but Tad and Dixie found out in time to stop it.
Things were relatively calm for Junior for most of the next two years. Junior and some of his friends formed a band, called DreamStreet, and won a competition at PV High. But by year's end, Junior began to spiral out of control. Dixie's involvement with Dr. David Hayward sent Junior (who asked to be called J.R.) spiraling out of control. He began to hang around with some questionable schoolmates and his behavior became more troubled. Junior paid a classmate to write a term paper and on several occasions used some colorful language directed towards his mother. With each passing day, J.R. acted more and more like his father, even attempting to bribe a police officer. Things got really out of hand when a high (on Ecstasy) J.R. crashed his father's car into a guardrail, nearly killing himself, Hayley and her unborn baby. In court, J.R. was sentenced to community service and counseling.
Angry that his stepfather Tad had brought Leslie Coulson back to town in an attempt to attack Dr. Hayward, J.R. continued to act out. While walking through the park one night, he met Mary Frances "Frankie" Stone, who shared a joint with him and brought him back to her room at Opal's where they were caught in bed by Frankie's girlfriend, Bianca. Frankie was subsequently found murdered and J.R. was subpoenaed as a prosecution witness. J.R. tried desperately to right his life. However, those around him didn't make it easy. Tad and Dixie and Adam and Liza all experienced repeated marital unhappiness and the teen struggled to deal with his family problems and the regular pressures of being a teen.
J.R.'s world was shattered in spring 2002 when his mother left him with Tad to go stay in Switzerland, and died in a car crash several months later. Dixie had been the only constant in J.R.'s life, and without her he couldn't tolerate either of his fathers. He also clashed with Liza over breaking household rules. His only comfort was Kendall Hart, who was drawn to him in spite of being 10+ years his senior. J.R. enjoyed the shocked reactions around him when his family learned of him befriending town pariah Kendall; she even attended the Martin Christmas party with him. Perhaps sensing that they had no real feelings for each other, they drifted apart soon afterwards.
J.R. became infatuated with Laurie Lewis, a beautiful and mysterious girl his age who seemed to be as confused in life as he was. He learned that her mother was dead and her father worked as a janitor at PV High School. Believing that he was in love, J.R. began spending all his time obsessing over her, even cutting an important interview with Harvard to be with her at the movies. Though Tad, who had grown closer to J.R. again, approved of the relationship, Laurie's father and Adam were outraged. Unfortunately for them, everything they did to try to break J.R. and Laurie up only pushed them further into each other's arms. Young love hit a serious snag when Adam cleverly offered a fully paid Harvard education to Laurie. J.R. was disgusted at his father's shameless machinations and demanded Laurie turn his money down. Laurie, who had never dreamed of such a scholastic opportunity, refused. She and J.R. broke up and in the interim, Laurie kissed J.R.'s brother Jamie, who had been a strong friend and confidant to her. After a few weeks, J.R. realized his stupidity and reconciled with Laurie at the opening for FUSION cosmetics. But moments later, Joni, feeling very spiteful after losing Jamie, blabbed the details of Jamie and Laurie's illicit smooch to him. A stunned J.R. ran away, telling no one, including Tad or Adam, of his whereabouts. After a few weeks of using private investigators, Adam discovered that J.R. was working on a cargo ship for at least the summer, to clear his head and get away from all the problems back in Pine Valley.
J.R. returned to Pine Valley in October 2003, appearing in the middle of The Pit as his two fathers -- Tad and Adam -- nearly came to blows. Adam was overjoyed to have his son back, but that quickly changed when at a family gathering J.R. announced that he'd married a young woman he'd met just three weeks before. That young woman, Babe, had already made her mark on Pine Valley. The night before, a tipsy Babe took Jamie Martin's virginity. J.R. would later reveal that he'd met Babe on night in San Diego at the end of a fog-enshrouded dock. J.R. believed that Babe, who was crying, was going to jump and take her life. Babe, however, said that as bad as things were, she never would have taken her own life. Adam tried to break up the newlyweds' marriage with the help of his house guest, trouble maker Mary Smythe. Adam loathed Babe, who he felt was only after his son's money. Try as they might, Adam and Mary were unable to split the pair up. When Adam found out that Jamie had slept with Babe -- and Babe later found out that she was pregnant -- Adam tried to enlist Jamie into breaking up the marriage. That too failed. As Babe's due date approached, she found herself trapped in the middle of nowhere with Bianca following a storm, Babe called Paul and asked that he fly his medical helicopter to take her and Bianca to the hospital. Paul initially agreed, but later agreed. When he arrived, he helped Babe deliver her baby. He then administered an unknown medicine to Babe leaving her groggy. During this time, Paul staged a chopper crash. When Babe awakened, Paul told her that he baby had died during the crash. However, when help arrived and Babe's family threatened harm to Paul if anything had happened to babe's child, Paul changed his story and said that Bianca's baby had been thrown from the chopper. He had hid Babe's baby in a nearby cabin and planned to give the baby boy to Kelly so that she could pass the baby off as her own. Bianca's babe was then given to Babe, leaving Bianca and her family to believe that her child had been killed.
J.R. and Babe named their baby Elizabeth (nicknamed Bess) Charlotte Chandler, but Babe later changed it to Elizabeth Miranda Chandler, in memory of Bianca's baby. Bess seemed to bring J.R. and Babe closer, especially since their marriage took a hit when Babe's affair was revealed. Bianca was still mourning her baby, when she kidnapped Bess from the hospital, thinking she was taking Miranda home. After Kendall and Ryan found Bianca, Bianca returned Bess to Babe. Babe forgave Bianca and J.R. said he did, but he was more cautious than ever. He wasn't thrilled when Babe told him she wanted Bianca to be Bess's godmother and he even hired a nanny to watch Bianca when she visited Babe. J.R. seemed to be more devoted to his family than ever, until he found out another secret about Babe.
After following Babe's mother, Krystal in the Chandler mansion's secret passageway, Liza found a marriage license that had been stashed behind one of the bricks. The marriage license was proof that Babe had been married to Paul Cramer when she married J.R.. When Liza showed the paper to J.R., he immediately confronted Babe, who admitted that she married Paul after a one-night stand, but it had been annulled after Bess was born. J.R. told Babe that he forgave her and even asked her to remarry him. Babe accepted and began planning the big wedding she always wanted.
While Babe was picking out China patterns and lace, J.R.'s forgiveness was nothing more than a phony act. He immediately consulted with Adam and they began to plot their revenge on Babe. J.R. sought the assistance of lawyer, Livia Frye to find out how he could take Bess away from Babe. Livia informed him that he was helpless -- since Babe and J.R. were not legally married, Paul was considered Bess's father. Livia drew some papers up and J.R. had Babe sign them, telling her that the papers would make J.R. Bess's father legally. Once H.R. and Babe were legally wed, J.R. began a plan to get Babe out of their daughter's life permanently, trying to make her sleep with Jamie. The result was that J.R.'s family and friends, with the exception of Adam and (initally) Babe, because they began to realize that J.R. was turning into his father. With the help of a video doctored to make it look like Babe and Jamie were plotting to kill him, J.R. demanded Babe to sign over full custody of Bess. She did, and left town.
J.R. didn't get to enjoy his status as a single parent for long. Babe left a letter for both J.R. and Bianca that proclaimed the truth, but thanks to J.R., Bianca never read her letter, and J.R. continued to raise Bess as his own. He, Bess and Bianca all went to Florida for a charity event, where Bianca finally learned the truth about her daughter. After attacking Jamie with a pipe, J.R. returned to his hotel room where he planned to flee with Bess, only to be confronted with Bianca. In the ensuing confrontation, Bianca fell from the balcony of his room and ended up in the hospital. They were all returned to Pine Valley, where J.R. continued his plans to flee with Bess, and Bianca got weaker in the hospital. J.R.'s world fell apart when Adam helped to prove that Bess was really Bianca's daughter, and although he tried to flee, Tad managed to stop him and took the baby, taking her to the hospital so that Bianca could reunite with her daughter, which finally woke her up.
Determined to punish Babe for his pain, J.R. began tracking her down, and soon learned she was traveling with Jamie and a small boy -- that he realized was his son. J.R. found the two, but soon found himself in the midst of a custody battle that included Kevin Buchanan, who had been raising the boy for months as his own son. After Kevin bowed out, J.R. was ultimately awarded with custody of the boy (whom he renamed Adam Chandler III), and Babe given only extremely limited visitation. J.R. wanted Babe to have absolutely no access to the boy, and was determined to punish both her and Jamie. He made sure that Jamie was kicked out of school and would never get into any of the local schools. When Phoebe Wallingford died, J.R. was put in charge of her estate, which was to be given to Jamie only if he kicked Babe out of his life. Nothing seemed to work, though, as Jamie was determined to be with Babe. When Amanda Dillon came to town, J.R. soon began enjoying a strings-free sexual relationship with her, and enlisted her in his plot to destroy Babe and Jamie.
J.R. also hired a new nanny for Little Adam, Diana Cole. He was amazed by the resemblance she had to his dead mother, Dixie. She soon confessed that she was Dixie, and although angry at first, J.R. was soon overjoyed to have his mother back. He even began softening toward Babe and Jamie, which was primarily at Dixie's request. Tad tried to prove that she wasn't Dixie, and nearly succeeded, until a DNA test proved otherwise. J.R. began to change, seemingly for the better, and he began to find his way back to brotherhood with Jamie, who had dumped Babe after finding her in bed with Josh Madden. He even began to find his way back to Babe. After Dixie was kidnapped by Garret Williams and returned to confess that she wasn't actually Dixie but rather her half-sister Di (Diana Kirby), J.R.'s world fell apart again. He began drinking again, and during a confrontation with Babe admitted that he had bought a judge off and had all her visitation rights terminated. Babe refused to let him leave alone when he had been drinking and jumped in the car with him, and when he hit Amanda Dillon with his car, Babe took the blame.
Once J.R. remembered that Babe took the blame for his crime, he was again torn over whether she was his lover or his enemy. The two began growing close again, and J.R. was beginning to reconsider letting Babe have a part in his life. He was still sleeping with Kendall intermittently, but was getting closer to Babe. When Babe and Little Adam disappeared after the explosion at the Mardi Gras ball, a series of text messages led J.R. to believe that Babe had run off with Little Adam, and he kidnapped Krystal to get the location out of her, threatening to shoot her (he inadvertently shot Dixie through the door). J.R. felt horrible for his suspicions after learning Babe and Little Adam had both been kidnapped by Janet, but although he offered heartfelt apologies to all of the people he knew felt wronged by him, he couldn't forget his suspicions that Babe was playing him. He went to see Janet at the jail, and she continued to insist that Babe was out to get him. J.R. remarried Babe, but couldn't shake his suspicions. Finding out that Dixie was alive and well and had been for years broke him, and he fell back into the bottle.
With everything in his life falling apart again, J.R. couldn't shake the feeling that everyone (including Babe) was out to get him. He overheard part of a conversation between Babe and Krystal and became convinced his wife was out to take their son and break his heart, and concocted a plan to kill her by having construction materials fall on her at Fusion. Unfortunately, Kendall had offered to try to talk to J.R. on Babe's behalf, and she was the one who was caught under the debris, which landed her in the hospital, and put her unborn child's life at risk. J.R. was horrified that he had hurt his best friend, and initially angry that Babe had survived. Babe soon figured out what her husband had been trying to do and confronted him. J.R. finally realized it was time that he stop lashing out at everyone and was prepared to take his punishment, but Babe covered for him in court, getting him off. Although he and Babe soon began to work on their relationship, J.R. again began lashing out at the people around him, joining forces with Jamie to bring down Josh Madden in the hopes that they could get a clue to their missing half-sister's whereabouts.
