Vincent Irizarry (January 9, 2007 - present)
Nicknames
Clark (alias)
Occupation
CoCEO of Jabot Cosmetics with Nikki Newman
Formerly an Executive at NVP
Formerly Nikki Newman's State Senate campaign consultant
Formerly Jack Abbott's State Senate campaign manager
Formerly Executive with Granville Global
Resides At
With Nikki in a suite at the Genoa City Athletic Club
Marital Status
Married to Nikki Newman (married May 14, 2008)
Past Marriages
Janelle [unknown name] (deceased, suicide)
Angela Perkins (deceased, car accident)
Elizabeth "Bitsy" Hartford (divorced)
Relatives
Unknown
Children
Mina King (step daughter - Angela)
Flings & Affairs
Carmen Mesta
Nikki Newman
Crimes Committed
Suspected of marrying all 4 wives for their money, and causing two of their deaths.
Brief Character History
Granville Global executive David Chow arrived in Genoa City as a man with a mission: to bring justice to his former love Carmen Mesta by making sure the police arrested her killer. Because Carmen sent David a tape showing Drucilla Winters attacking Carmen for "messing with her man," Neil, David was sure Dru was Carmen's killer. After David was unable to convince the police of this, he hatched a plan to gaslight Dru by using Carmen's lookalike cousin Inez. Dru's family thought she was losing her mind, because she was ''seeing Carmen", and had her temporarily committed pending a competency hearing. After Jana Hawkes confessed to being the real killer, David and Inez appeared at Dru's competency hearing, vindicating her. However, he never revealed he was the one behind the gaslighting.
David arranged to stay in Genoa City as Liason between Granville Global and Newman Enterprises, but the job didn't last long. Victor Newman was planning to take down Jack Abbot, by getting him to run for State Senator, after which Victor would make sure Jack left in disgrace. Victor knew David had been a well regarded political campaign manager in the past, and offered to pay David twice his GG salary if he'd quit that job, and sign on as Jack Abbott's campaign manager. David took the job, and showed his ruthless side by coming up with ideas to put Jack ahead of his opponent, Nikki Newman, including leaking a video of Nikki's stripper past on the Internet. Jack fired David, and Nikki immediately hired him as a campaign consultant.
David continued his tactics while working on Nikki's campaign, coming up with a falsified video showing Jack making a deal with a mob family to build a casino in Clear Springs. David always had something in his back pocket- a plan for every move Jack made. Nikki began to lead in the polls.
David began to fall for Nikki, who was having problems with her marriage to Victor, due to the campaign and the presumed death of their son, Nick. Victor left Genoa City to search for his other son Victor Jr., who was missing in Sri Lanka, and did not return Nikki's calls. As Nikki became lonely and stressed during the campaign, she and David grew closer. They kissed in Nikki's office, unaware that Sharon Abbott and Phyllis Newman had set up a spy camera in the office. The video of David and Nikki's kiss was put on the web, and Victor saw it, further widening the gap between him and Nikki.
Nikki's campaign ran into trouble due to the kiss video, and she narrowly lost the election to Jack Abbott. Her campaign manager, Karen Taylor, criticized David for giving in to his passions - and implied that this was typical of David, and he'd damaged previous campaigns with the same sort of behavior. After Nikki lost the election, she hired David to work for NVP.
Victor Newman returned and warned Nikki about David, citing David's history of 3 times marrying wealthy woman and twice widowed. His last marriage ended in divorce because of his affair with fellow Granville Global employee Carmen Mesta. Nikki said nothing was going on between her and David (at the time this was true), but Victor did not believe it. Their marriage continued to suffer and they separated. After the separation, Nikki began a relationship with David, and the tension between Victor and Nikki, and Victor and David, continued.
Victor hired JT to dig up more dirt on David, but all JT could find was that David had spotty credit, had been married three times, and seemed a 'regular' middle class business man.
Any possibility of reconciliation between Nikki and Victor disappeared - although their son Nick had been found alive, Victoria Newman was injured in the Clear Springs explosion, and her parents differed on how to treat her and her unborn baby while she was in a coma. The marriage ended in divorce and Nikki and David became engaged.
At this time, a mysterious man, Walter Palin, began appearing in Genoa City. He tracked down David but called him "Clark", wanting money he owed him, and asking him why he changed his name. David wanted to prevent Nikki from finding out about Walter.
Nikki lost NVP to Victor in the divorce settlement, but Katharine Chancellor, who was retiring from Chancellor Industries, asked Nikki to take over subsidiary Jabot Cosmetics. Nikki appointed fiancé David her co-CEO.
Walter kept pressing David, threatening to tell Nikki about "Clark" so David finally confessed to Nikki that he had a gambling problem, and that Walter was a loan shark from whom David had borrowed money. Despite David's protests, Nikki paid off the $250,000 David owed Walter. She told David to get therapy for his gambling addiction, and he said he would. However, after Nikki left, David tossed aside the list of self help groups and addiction therapists she had given him, determined to stop gambling "on his own."
This left him prey for the new Chief Operations Officer of Jabot, Brad Carlton. Brad felt David was ill suited for the co-CEO position at Jabot, and began to hatch a plan to get David to gamble once again. Brad has been setting him up with his bookie to lose bets, holding impromptu poker nights at his place, and lending David money to cover his losses.
After many failed attempts by David to get her to set a wedding date, it took Nikki reacting to the news of Victor and Sabrina's engagement for her to suddenly elope with David to Mexico. After a series of bad omens including a packed plane and a wacky seatmate with a cat and lost luggage, which should have further warned her away from David, they arrived in Mexico to the wedding chapel that had burned to the ground. They managed a wedding anyway with a borrowed simple gown and a guitar playing Victor & Nikki's love theme "Through the Eyes of Love". Can anyone say "doomed marriage"?
Concerned for his friend, Nikki, and suspicious of David Chow due to bad credit having 2 prior deceased rich wives, Paul began an investigation into David's past. He tracked down his last rich wife "Bitsy" in Bermuda to where she escaped in fear of David and divorced him. Bitsy told Paul that they met as colleagues at Granville Global, and prior to that David was in politics. Bitsy claimed that David got away with the death of his first wife Janelle by cheating on her, causing her to commit suicide, and the death of his second wife Angela by tampering with her brakes to cause her fatal accident. Bitsy then began ranting about aliens, so Paul cut short the interview, but he believed her claims about David might be true. Paul next tracked down Mina King, the sister of David's deceased wife Janelle who claimed that David cut the brakes of her sister's car causing the accident! David was tipped anonymously that Paul was investigating him, so went to Nikki first with his side of the story. David said he met his first wife Janelle in college, that she was always on the go, on a mission of some sort. She became paranoid, then could not sleep, would not go for therapy, and ended up over-dosing on sleeping pills. His 2nd wife Angela was very athletic, flew a plane, and was very volatile. After one of their many fights, she drove her sports car into a telephone pole and was killed. He admitted that he gambled away his inheritance from each of them. He said her daughter Mina was a cocaine addict and accused of murder David because Angela had cut her out of the will. David claimed his 3rd wife Bitsy was paranoid too, accused him of leaking Granville Global company secrets and having affairs. When she refused to get help, they separated, which is when he had the affair with Carmen Mesta. When Bitsy found out, she accused him of murdering his wives for their money and became delusional, so he divorced her. Nikki appeared to believe David, and asked Paul to stop investigating him. Paul said he would, but did not. While Nikki started doing her own research on David on the Internet, Brad continued to lend David money and give him bad gambling tips, and David contacted his bookie and lost even more money, to the point where he has pawned the watch that Nikki gave him as a wedding present. After a particularly good winning streak, David bought Nikki a horse, Athena, as a gift and Nikki was thrilled. But that only fed David's addiction and he was sorely tempted by an ad for a gambling tournament in Las Vegas. Just as Sabrina was walking down the aisle to marry Victor, Nikki, at the stables with her new horse, received a devastating phone call from David telling her that he could no longer deceive her about his gambling and that he wanted a divorce. But the next day David appeared begging Nikki to give him another chance, and Nikki is trying. On returning from their honeymoon, Victor ran into Nikki and saw her upset, but Victor left when Paul interrupted saying he was meeting her. Meanwhile David supposedly on a business trip to Hollywood, is cutting it short to gamble in Vegas.
