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George Guidall (June 1986 to Fall 1986)

Died of natural causes, off camera, sometime in early 1990

Baron of Andorra

At time of death in his castle, in Andorra

Divorced (Alexandra "Alex" Spaulding) (At time of death)

unnamed first wife (Deceased)
Alexandra "Alex" Spaulding (Divorced)

Brandon "Lujack" Luvonaczek (former stepson; deceased)
Nick (McHenry) Spaulding (former stepson)

India von Halkein (w/unnamed first wife)

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Colluded with Eric Luvonaczek and Brandon Spaulding to hide from Alexandra "Alex" Spaulding that her son, Nick, had been given up illegally for adoption to Kip and Mary McHenry. (Prior to January 1984 - Summer 1992)

Helped smuggle the criminal and presumed deceased Alan Spaulding out of San Rios. (sometime after June 1984, but prior to June 1986)

Hid the fugitive Alan Spaulding in the von Halkein castle. (sometime after June 1984, but prior to June 1986)

Colluded with his daughter, India, and Alan to embezzle money from the Spaulding Foundation in an attempt to wrest control of Spaulding Enterprises from Alexandra "Alex" Spaulding. (last half of 1985 - June 1986)

Colluded with India and Alan to hide gold that legally belonged to the government of Andorra. (1986)

Inadvertantly responsible for Professor Blackburn's attack on India and Beth Raines and Blackburn's later attack that nearly killed Beth. (July 1986)

Colluded to use his daughter, India, in a scheme to sell and smuggle stolen masterpieces, with Alan,and the Valeres (July 1986 - April 1987)

The Baron Leopold "Leo" von Halkein of the European country of Andorra was first introduced in June 1986, but he had backstory before this time. Although Leo never came to Springfield, the actions he took had several effects on the residents in that mid-Western town. Leo had at one time married, Alexandra "Alex" Spaulding, during a time when Alex had been cut off from funds from her father, Brandon Spaulding (a rich and sometimes ruthless Chicago businessman.) The marriage had been nothing but one of convenience, with Alex trying to gain a title and Leo eventually gaining a little money (when Brandon and Alex's brother Alan started accepting her again) in the process. His daughter from his first marriage, India, always felt that something was missing and that Alex really didn't care for her father and after Alex had left Leo. In the summer of 1984, India then learned her father was broke (despite the von Halkein castle in Andorra.) India blamed everything on Alex and vowed her revenge, so she set out for Springfield (where both the Spaulding family and their company, Spaulding Enterprises had relocated) to wreak havoc on Alexandra.

By the fall of 1985, India had wreaked much havoc onto Alex, by blackmailing Alex's nephew Phillip into marriage, having an affair with Alex's one time boyfriend, Warren Andrews, colluding with Warren to take control of Spaulding Enterprises (India herself was gaslighted by Warren), doing several illegal activities to keep Phillip and away from his true love, Beth Raines -- including breaking and entering and drugging Phillip with an illegal love potion and just being overall a nasty individual. Then in the fall of 1985, Alex discovered that someone or several people were embezzling funds out of the Spaulding Foundation (that was usually set up to fund charitable organizations such as Cedars Hospital and all kinds of arts.) Alex suspected India of the embezzlement, but as the early spring of 1986 came along she had no solid proof of this, or at least not before Alex would face more havoc courtesy of her stepdaughter -- but Alex would also have to deal with Leo again, even though he never set foot in Springfield.

Also in June 1984, Alex's brother Alan (and Phillip's adoptive father) had become a fugitive and was presumed dead after an explosion in San Rios when Alan was implicated for manufacturing illegal biological weapons. (Alex had helped bring Alan down for this, by taping conversations of Alan's.) Alan though was very much alive and would also soon resurface and would help to wreck the continuing havoc in Alex's life.

In the early spring of 1986, Alex's new bit of havoc she had to face actually begin with the arrival in Springfield of India's old lover. A charming young magician named Simon had begun performing at Warren Andrews' Blue Orchid nightclub. An old lover of India's, Simon told Alex that he was the illegitimate son of Brandon Spaulding! When Phillip walked in on Simon and India in a embrace, he told his wife that he wanted a divorce. By the time India was available to Simon, though, he had already fallen in love with someone else -- the sweeter, more innocent Jessie Matthews. Jessie's mom, Calla Matthews (who was working at the time as Alex's personal assistant) disapproved of the romance, for she was certain that Simon was an imposter. Alex, however, was torn between her own suspicions and her sisterly feelings toward Simon. One day Alex spotted Simon at her deceased son, Lujack's grave and was moved beyond measure. "Now you're a true Spaulding," Alex told him. "But if you are lying, please don't ever tell me." In a gesture of good faith, Alex made Simon executive vice president of Spaulding Enterprises and threw a lavish party in his honor. Desperate to get Simon back and land the Spaulding fortune one way or another, India tried to enlist his help in bilking Alex (by embezzling money from the Spaulding Foundation), but he was strangely noncommittal.

An unusual secret began to haunt Calla and Jessie Matthews. Calla panicked when she heard that her ex-husband, Gordon Matthews, was remarrying. She confided to Lillian that a few years after Jessie was born, Gordon had infected her with syphilis, which left her sterile. Calla never told Jessie the truth about why the marriage broke up. Calla's growing anxiety turned into psychomatic symptoms and eventually landed her at Cedars. There Jessie happened upon her mother's chart and discovered the ugly truth about her family. A confused Jessie ran away, and Simon frantically searched for her. India thought this was the perfect opening for her to reconcile with Simon, until Alex came forward with a heretofore secret document. It was a written promise by Simon never to marry India, or he would lose his position at Spaulding! "I never forced him to sign this," Alex smugly informed India. "It was all his idea."

Meanwhile, Springfield Journal investigative reporter Fletcher Reade discovered that India was embezzling Spaulding Foundation monies in tandem with her father, Leo (but Flether could not find out the reason why.) As punishment, India was sentenced to 30 days of community service at the Stony Lake Reformatory, where she befriended a gutsy little orphan named Dorie Smith. This unlikely relationship brought out a refreshing new side to India, but she had not completely reformed. She was hiding the identity of a third party who was in cahoots with her and Leo, a man whom many in Springfield assumed was dead. Leo got wind of India's sentence and 30 day stay at Stony Lake and did not like it. Out of one of the wings of the von Halkein castle, out walked the very much alive, Alan Spaulding! The third party was none other than the fugitive Alan, Alex's younger brother! Leo had apparently helped to smuggle Alan out of San Rios before the explosion and had let the fugitive, Alan hide out in his castle, so he and his daughter could bring Alex down at some future point in time. Alan himself was now the proud owner of mineral rights in the war-torn country of San Rios, Alan intended to rebuild his power base in Springfield. Leo helped Alan return to Springfield. Alex would soon be witness to two rather nasty surprises!

Alex sent Leo an invitation to an upcoming masquerade ball she would hold at the Blue Orchid, in Simon's honor. Alex didn't think Leo would attend, seeing how broke he truly was, but what Alex did not expect was that Alan would intercept the invitation (well, Leo showed it to him) and Leo would help Alan return to Springfield and unveil and show himself at Alex's masquerade ball! Eventually Simon located Jessie and brought her back to Springfield. This development pleased Alex, who encouraged their romance, and she gifted Simon with one third of Spaulding Enterprises. But her attorney, Ross Marler, had been investigating him and learned he was really Simon Hall from Baltimore, Maryland. Cornered, Simon performed the ultimate disappearing act. At the masquerade ball he announced to the audience, "Simon Spaulding is a fantasy. I'm a bastard. My father isn't and never was Brandon Spaulding!" With this bombshell, Springfield's answer to Mandrake the Magician vanished in a puff of smoke. A very short time later, Alex would have the other shocking surprise when Alan took off his mask and told everyone, in the already very shocked audience, his intention to regain power in Springfield!

Sometime thereafter, Simon resurfaced and admitted his connection to Alex: He was the son of Eric Luvonaczek by another woman and was therefore Lujack's half-brother. Alex felt Simon had betrayed her trust, but he set out to make amends with her anyway. But, Simon was the least of her worries or it should have been! After Alan's shocking reentry into Springfield, he outbid Billy Lewis and Kyle Sampson for the Mirror, a sensationalistic competitor of the Springfield Journal, and plotted to take over Sampson-Lewis (the conglomerate created with the merger of Lewis Oil and Sampson, Industries.) He continued to scheme with both India and Leo to boot Alex out of Spaulding Enterprises, and he muscled his way onto Cedars' board of directors and tried to oust both chief of staff, Dr. Ed Bauer (a one time rival) and his wife and Cedars administrator, Maureen, claiming that both were inefficient. Ed and his beloved Mo did not appreciate Alan's manipulations, for they already had their hands full with Dr. Claire Ramsey's manipulations.

Soon Alan, India and Leo's plot for more power would take some nasty turns, that would eventually make India re-evaluate what she was doing. Alan, India and Leo (still out of the country in Andorra, but still advising his daughter and former brother-in-law) embroiled the Spauldings in a madcap though ultimately tragic adventure. Beth Raines began working at the local museum/art gallery (Art Gallery Cache) for a Springfield University art Professor Blackburn, who got his hands on the cornerstone of the Von Halkein estate in Andorra. India and Leo knew the cornerstone contained gold, and Leo pressured India to try and steal it from the professor. Blackburn knew he was sitting on a treaure and defended it literally to the death. He knocked India unconscious, shot Phillip and held Beth hostage aboard a boat on Stony Lake. Sometime later, Blackburn's dead body turned up. Beth's shoe and some fabric from her dress were found, but she was nowhere in sight. Phillip was devastated and vowed to find her. But Alan, who had always looked down on Beth, fabricated evidence to make it appear that she had indeed died.

At this time, Reva Shayne Lewis was working as Alan's photographer at the Mirror so she could keep tabs on him for Kyle. One of her first assignments was to shoot underwater photos of Stony Lake, which had become flooded. There she found Professor Blackburn's boat, which contained evidence inconsistent with Alan's claims that Beth was dead. Reva confronted Alan with her findings but agreed not to reveal them when he backed off on an article he was planning to write -- a slam piece on Kyle's parentage. But Reva was soon to make an even more dramatic discovery in the flooded waters: the Von Halkein gold! To Alan's horror, Kyle nobly gave the treasure to its rightful owner, the ambassador of Andorra. With Leo's blessing, Alan and India hoodwinked the dignitary into giving it back to India, and the two subsequently became lovers as well as cohorts.

India was not entirely comfortable with the relationship, though. During the time that Beth was starting to work with Professor Blackburn, India had been approached by the owner of the Art Gallery Cache, Carlo Fontini, to run the Art Gallery Cache with her connections to the Spauldings. India accepted Carlo Fontini's offer (that's how India found out about Professor Blackburn's gold cornerstone.) India thought this job would help her overcome some of the problems that had sent her to the Stony Lake Reformatory and she also wanted to impress Dorie with the improvements she was making and had her sights set on adopting Dorie. What India did not know was that Carlo Fontini had involved the Art Gallery Cache as a front for peddling stolen masterpieces. Alan and India's father, Leo also became involved in the peddling of these stolen masterpieces and without India's knowledge! During Alan's absence from Springfield, well living in the von Halkein castle, Leo had introduced Alan with a pair of art smugglers named Paul and Christine Valere. Now that the Valeres were seperated, Christine turned to a former lover for help in the operation. He was Johnny Bauer, Ed's distant cousin, a handsome pilot who was now based at Springfield Airport, where the airport manager at the time -- John Cutler hired him. John Cutler was also involved with the divorced Christine and tried to keep the Christine away from Johnny. But Christine hoped Johnny would act as a courier for the hot goods, and John Cutler was not opposed to this when Christine explained what she had mind, but Johnny had integrity and was hestitant. Then India's old flame, Warren Andrews, caught on to the scheme. India and Warren set out to turn the tables on Alan and another of his cohorts, a handsome Frenchman named Jean-Claude Laval. By coincidence, Jean-Claude was engaged to one of Maureen's younger sisters, vivacious singer Chelsea Reardon. Although at first Chelsea was reluctant to return to Springfield, Jean-Claude convinced her otherwise. Jean-Claude had heard from Alan and Leo, that Warren Andrews was becoming suspicious of the stolen masterpieces scheme. On their way into town, Chelsea and Jean-Claude's car crashed into the car Phillip Spaulding was driving two adopted teenage sisters, Dinah and Kelly Ann, home from a party in. Jean-Claude would later die on the way to Cedars under Rick Bauer's care, leaving Chelsea to sue Rick -- her sister's stepson -- for malpractice. Fortunately, Phillip convinced Chelsea to reconsider and drop the suit. Dinah tried to donate blood for Kelly Ann, and was floored as Vanessa Chamberlain Lewis and Ross Marler were to learn from Ed that she couldn't donate blood for a transfusion to Kelly Ann, because her rare blood type matched Ross's! Dinah learned that she was the biological daughter of Vanessa and Ross's from when the both of them had an affair when they were teenagers!

Although, Jean-Claude was now dead, this did not mean that Alan and Leo's greed was over with and neither did it mean that the art smuggling scam was also dead. For in 1987, the head of the operation would be revealed to be none other than Paul Valere who was about to wreck havoc on several residents in Springfield's lives and Alan and Leo's greed was to hamper and bring much of this about, before the Springfield police department could stop them. The events set in motion because of Alan and Leo's greed would continue to lead to more criminal activity -- even though Alan and Leo had no idea that the Diamondhead gang was also involved closely in some of the same activities to try and obtain power in Springfield as Alan and Leo were trying to get. This would also all continue despite the fact that Leo would become ill and India would soon leave for Andorra. India was pleased to see the growing bond between her young ward, Dorie, and her fellow waif, Dinah. Now that Dinah was contentedly living with Ross after years of being shuttled from pillar to post, India convinced Ross to split Dorie's care with her. But upon learning her father was in failing health, India asked Paul Valere to run the Art Gallery Cache (this was on advice offered by Leo and Carlo Fontini), and returned to Andorra with Dorie in tow. With Ross relegated to the role of bachelor father, Vanessa began to feel like an outsider. Dinah continued to have no use for her, and Ross showed no interest in marriage despite Vanessa's divorce from Josh's older brother, Billy Lewis, who was now in Venezuela (after starting to feel like a third wheel with Dinah in the picture.) The rift between Vanessa and Dinah grew when Vanessa expressed her disapproval of Dinah's drunken teenage parties. Vanessa started throwing herself into her new job at the Spaulding Foundation, where she found herself enjoying Alan's flirtatious advances. Ross was disheartened to see Vanessa use Alan to try to make him jealous. This was the old, manipulative Vanessa, and he wanted no part of her. Ross issued her an ultimatum: Alan and the Spaulding Foundation, or him. Because Billy had left Vanessa with nothing but child support for their son, little Billy, Vanessa took the pragmatic route and chose Spaulding.

Alan confided to Vanessa that her father, Henry Chamberlain's finances were in bad shape. Furious that Alan had alarmed her, Henry confronted him, and the showdown caused Henry to suffer his second heart attack. To Vanessa's great relief, her beloved father survived. Henry than had Ross change his will to include Dinah, as well as to name Vanessa as his successor on the Spaulding board. Dinah finally accepted Vanessa and formed a close bond with Henry, whom she considered her grandfather and adviser. Dinah needed advice more than ever, now that her boyfriend, sensitive Cameron Stewart, had been busted for drug possession. What Cameron hadn't revealed was that the drugs belonged to his father, George Stewart, a coke addicted loser and a thug with the Diamondhead gang (George though didn't know that Paul Valere was now the head of the gang, George took his orders from Cat Brixton.) Neither Dinah nor Cameron suspected that George was the one behind a major robbery that occured at the Chamberlain house.

Compared to Paul Valere, though, George Stewart was a petty crook. The insidious international art smuggler arrived to take over running Art Gallery Cache with India's departure, keep his estranged wife, Christine, in line, along with his American partner, Alan Spaulding. Paul Valere also started to date and developed a more serious relationship with Lisa Cutler, John Cutler's ex-wife (divorced in the last few months of 1986), to keep John Cutler in line. Phillip Spaulding had also started to develop feelings for Lisa Cutler as well, and Paul Valere was able to keep Phillip anxious by seeing Lisa -- which was something that Paul was probably wise to do -- considering where Phillip was working at the time. An unsuspecting Phillip became a columnist at Alan's newspaper, the Mirror, and began a series of investigative pieces, on the stolen-art syndicate. As a warning, Paul had Phillip's apartment ransacked, prompting Phillip's gal friday Chelsea Reardon to destroy Phillip's expose in order to protect him. Phillip rewrote the piece in a blander version, only to have the original turn up and make the front page! Alan told Paul not to hurt Phillip, so instead, Paul tried to ice Chelsea by rigging a microphone to electrocute her. Luckily entertainment promoter, Jackson Freemont saved Chelsea in the nick of time and began developing feelings for Chelsea when Phillip didn't seem to be returning her affections.

Also involved in the Paul Valere chaos was Johnny Bauer, who was trying to live down his past dubious connections with Paul and the late Jean-Claude Laval. The sneaky Alan had a dossier on Johnny, however, and blackmailed him into being his courier. Johnny made it clear to Alan that he didn't know what was in the crates he was transporting from Europe to Springfield, nor did he want to. Although Johnny was unable to fight his lingering attraction to Christine, whom he had known intimately in Europe, he ultimately chose his love for Roxie over her. When Paul threatened Johnny and Christine, Johnny swore he would kill Paul if Paul ever lay a hand on Christine again. Not long afterward, Paul was shot and killed! Johnny was the chief suspect after his threat against that man. But his cousin Ed Bauer and Ed's wife, Maureen, believed in Johnny was not guilty and along with some others in Springfield, who want to see the end of the Diamondhead gang, pressured longtime Springfield police department Detective Larry Wyatt to investigate Paul's murder. Det. Wyatt's suspect list included Lisa and John Cutler, Christine and Paul Valere, Alan Spaulding, Phillip Spaulding and even Maureen's sister, Chelsea Reardon. But an unlikely party confessed to the crime: Warren Andrews. Paul had discovered the Andrews was double-crossing him.

As the Valere imbroglio came to an end, the ripple effect was widely felt. Before Warren was moved to an out-of-state prison, he warned Alan that Paul had ordered a hit on Phillip prior to his death. Alan confessed to his part in the scam and was temporarily jailed. His sister, Alex, despite loathing what he had done -- professed her sisterly love for him and bailed him out (not knowing that her former husband, Leo, was also involved with Alan in the stolen masterpieces scam.) Phillip felt betrayed once again by Alan, the man he'd always known as his father. Phillip moved into the lighthouse and staked Johnny in an exciting new venture: a hot-air balloon flight center. The grand opening was celebrated at Ed and Mo's annual barbecue, where two bold and dating teenagers arrived with a bang. Alan-Michael Spaulding, Ed's nephew and Alan's biological son with Hope, parachuted into the party and immediately charmed all the young ladies present. Aspiring gymnast Lacey Bauer, Johnny's sister, also made a splashy entrance and took Cameron on a wild balloon ride. Although it wasn't yet known, Alan-Michael's reappearance in Springfield would also mean the end of any hope of Baron Leo von Halkein ever setting foot in Springfield, let alone leaving Andorra.

A few weeks after Alan-Michael and Lacey's arrival, Warren's warning materialized. Paul's paid assassin kidnapped Alan and demanded he lure Phillip into a deadly trap. When Alan refused to give Phillip up, Phillip found himself infected with botulism form a poisoned steak. Ed and Rick worked feverishly to save him and finally succeeded, while Alan-Michael begrudged his uncle and cousin's concern for his adoptive brother. Alan-Michael yearned to have a relationship with Alan after years of distance, but it seemed Phillip was all Alan cared about. Alan-Michael secured Phillip's reluctant assistance, however, in helping the police rescue Alan from the assassin's clutches. The goon was vanquished, and Alan expressed his deep gratitude to his sons. But Phillip would have none of it and bitterly swore off Alan. Having risked his life to protect Phillip from the assassin, Alan was so hurt by his son's rejection that he disowned him. Alan's image being tarnished, also made him realize it was time to come clean that his partner in all of the business of the stolen masterpieces was none other than Leo von Halkein -- Alex's ex! Alex was chagrined, Alan's admission, and had the authorities freeze all of Leo's assests in the United States -- meaning that Leo could never hope to come to the States and Leo never would.

In 1990, while being on vacation on a yacht in Mexico, India was thrown overboard by her rich lover and she ran into Phillip on a rainey night. India let Phillip know that Leo had died of natural causes shortly before yachting adventure and misadventure. During India's first return to Springfield she would again be a major thorn in the side of the Spauldings.

Leo's name would be mentioned one more time. In January 1992, Alex was convinced that then Springfield investigative journalist (working with Fletcher Reade at the Springfield Journal, but wanting to return to New York and away from Alex), Nick McHenry was a twin for her deceased son Lujack (killed in November 1985.) Nick had his doubts and was just as sure that his biological parents were Kip and Mary McHenry. But Alex hired Frank Cooper to track down her first ex, starving artist and Lujack's biological father, Eric Luvonaczek in Paris, France. At his run down flat in Paris, Alex berated Eric into admitting that she had indeed given birth to twins and that Nick must be Lujack's twin. Eric also admitted that he, the late unlamented Baron Leo von Halkein and Alex's deceased father, Brandon Spaulding had set up an illegal adoption of the boy to Kip and Mary McHenry. Alex tried to get Nick to listen, when she returned to Springfield, but he wouldn't even when Alex told him that the doctor named on his birth certificate had been treating his mother for depression, not a pregnancy. Nick declined to take a test to disprove he was Alex's son. Later, Eric revealed that he lied and that Alex really hadn't had twins, but Eric had given Alex a DNA sample that Alex took to Cedars in case Nick ever wanted to have the test done. Later in the spring of 1992, Nick would have a DNA test done -- but Mindy Lewis who was in love with Nick and desperately in love with him (Alex despised Mindy by this time, because Mindy had an affair and miscarried a pregnancy with/of Alex's third husband, Roger Thorpe) tampered with the DNA test and it looked like Nick was proven right, his biological parents were Kip and Mary McHenry. Later Eric Luvonaczek's original confession about his, Brandon and Leo's illegal adoption scheme would be revealed as being true and Nick was Eric and Alex's love child (and therefore, Lujack's identical twin) when another love interest of Nick's, Dr. Eve Guthrie stumbled across Mindy's tampering of the test results. Mindy was now discredited in Nick's eyes, but this would only be temporarily. Surprisingly this was Mindy's deception and tampering would not see the light of day until the summer of 1992, and by then Alex was away on an extended stay in Singapore. Fletcher Reade would bring Alex back to Springfield in 1993, and surprisingly Alex actually accepted Nick (now going by the last name of Spaulding) and Mindy's romance and engagment in November 1993.