Jill Foster Abbott
Actor History
Brenda Dickson (1973-1980, 1983-1987)
Bond Gideon (1980)
Deborah Adair (1980-1983)
Melinda Fee (1984)
Jess Walton (June 1987 to present)
Judith Chapman (Replacement when Walton was sick for a few days.)
Timeline
Born September 29, 1957, according to birth certificate seen on the show.
Occupation
CEO of Chancellor Industries
Former CEO of Jabot Cosmetics, but still a stockholder
Former Executive of Jabot Cosmetics, Head of the Men's Line
Former Liaison to Photo Studio at Jabot
Former Management Trainee at Jobot
Former manicurist at Derek's Salon
Former paid companion to Katherine Chancellor
Former shampoo girl and manicurist at salon Kay frequented
Resides At
Chancellor Estate, 12 Foothill Road
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
Brock Reynolds (invalid)
Phillip Chancellor II (invalid; deceased)
Derek Thurston (invalid)
Stuart Brooks (divorced; deceased)
Rex Sterling (invalid)
John Abbott (divorced; first time, now deceased)
John Abbott (divorced; second time, now deceased)
Relatives
William Foster (father; via adoption)
Elizabeth Foster (mother; via adoption)
Greg Foster (brother; via adoption)
William 'Snapper' Foster (brother; via adoption)
Phillip Chancellor IV (grandson)
Jennifer Elizabeth Foster (niece; via adoption)
Pierre Charles Roulland (nephew; via adoption)
Bruce Henderson (uncle; via adoption)
Mark Henderson (cousin; via adoption)
Lorie Brooks (cousin; via adoption)
Arthur Hendricks (biological father)
Katherine Chancellor (biological mother)
Brock Reynolds (biological half-brother)
Mackenzie Browning (biological half-niece)
Children
Phillip Chancellor III (son; with Phillip II; deceased) (later found to have been switched unknown baby)
Ethan "Cane" Ashby (her real son: with Phillip II)
Miscarriage (father was either Jack or John Abbott)
William "Bily" Foster Abbott
Flings & Affairs
Phillip Robert Chancellor II
David Mallory (blind, received deceased father Bill's corneas)
Steven Williams
Jack Abbott
Andy Richards
Brad Carlton
Marc Mergeron
Rex Sterling
David Kimble
Blade Bladeson
Victor Newman
Jed Sanders
Michael Crawford
John Silva
Keith Dennison
Sean Bridges
Larry Warton
Jack Abbott
Elliot Hampton (engagement broken)
Will Bardwell (deceased July 18, 2007)
Ji Min Kim [Engaged: Jul 23rd, 2007] (Deceased Sept 4, 2007)
Jeffrey Bardwell
Crimes Committed
Arrested for shooting Victor Newman, later exonerated.
Brief Character History
It was always thought that Jill Foster was born the youngest child of Liz and Bill Foster. But in 2003 it was disclosed that Jill was adopted. Liz worked hard in a menial factory job at Chancellor Industries ever since her husband Bill abandoned her and her young children. Jill worked as a shampoo girl and manicurist, helping to put older brothers "Snapper" and Greg through college. She was a dreamer who gazed longingly at magazines filled with pictures of a life she thought she could never have.
One of Jill's customers was the wealthy Katherine Chancellor, who took a liking to this poor innocent young girl, and later hired Jill as her paid companion. Jill liked Kay as well, and was very supportive in Kay's struggle with alcohol. Kay soon became suspicious of Jill and her husband Phillip, and started bugging their conversations. Phillip told Jill that although he knew he was falling in love with her, he would never leave Kay when she needed him. Jill felt so guilty, she made plans to leave. Kay offered to pay for a college education, but Jill turned it down. Jill went to Phillip to say good-by, but they ended up consummating their love - which Kay witnessed.
Kay then arranged for her son Brock, who was attracted to Jill, to propose marriage. Jill accepted, and Brock married them himself. Before it was consummated, Jill found out she was pregnant, and told Phillip. Phillip was overjoyed and asked Kay for a divorce, which sent her back to the bottle. Kay signed the papers in a drunken stupor, crossing out the property settlement. Without him, she wanted nothing, not even the estate. Phillip flew to The Dominican Republic for a quickie divorce, while Jill broke the news to Brock who agreed to back out of their marriage, which was not legal anyway. Upon Phillip's return, he was met at the airport by a drunken Kay, who offered to drive him home. Kay made a last-ditch effort to convince Phillip to change his mind about their marriage. But when he turned her down, she hit the accelerator while rounding a curve, and the car sailed off a cliff. Kay sustained serious injuries, and Phillip was in critical condition. Jill hovered at his bedside. Phillip asked the hospital chaplain to marry them, and soon afterward Phillip died. Thus began the life long feud between Jill Foster and Kay Chancellor - Jill accusing Kay of murdering her true love, and Kay accusing Jill of stealing hers!
Jill delivered a son, whom she named Phillip Chancellor III. Katherine tried to buy him from Jill for a million dollars. Jill instead, sued for half of Phillip's estate. Kay hired Attorney Mitchell Sherman to have their marriage annulled, thereby stopping any inheritance to Jill or her son, due to the fact that the divorce papers were signed when Kay was drunk. In retaliation, Jill planted alcohol at the estate to knock Kay off the wagon, and attempted to drive her insane.
Next Kay fell in love with and tricked hairdresser Derek Thurston into marrying her. Derek was really in love with - who else? - Jill Foster! But Derek took Kay up on her deal. If he lived with her for a year, she would set up a $100,000 trust for Jill's son and set Derek up in his own salon. Then Derek's X-wife Suzanne Lynch arrived in town, bent on getting Derek back. She befriended Kay, and gave her candy laced with drugs, which drove Kay into a sanitarium. Kay's roommate went berserk and set fire to the room. Kay escaped, but the roommate's body was identified as Kay because she was wearing Kay's ring. Derek found himself free of both wives, inheriting the Chancellor wealth and free to marry Jill. Guess who showed up at their wedding? - Kay! - very much alive.
Jill was married briefly to newspaper editor Stuart Brooks. She broke up a romance he was having with Jill's mother Liz by faking a pregnancy after a one-night stand. Stuart saw through her ruse, divorced Jill and married Liz.
Jill next set her sights on wealthy older man, John Abbott. That marriage ended in divorce after Jill had a one-night stand with John's son Jack, got pregnant and miscarried in a suspicious fall from a ladder - never knowing which one was the father of the child. Because John did not want the facts brought out, Jill's divorce settlement gave her one-fourth of Jabot Cosmetics, a seat on the board of directors, and a cushy executive position with Jabot at $150,000 a year. Shortly after her divorce, Jill was shot, with Jack Abbott as the prime suspect. But the shooter turned out to be Sven, Jill's former masseur. After Jill recovered, Sven kidnapped her and held her prisoner in a meat locker. She was rescued by Jack and Police Detective Carl Williams.
Jill became a successful Jabot executive, as creator of their Men's Line. Jill's teenage son Phillip returned from boarding school, and ended up moving in with Jill's nemesis Kay Chancellor. Nina Webster ended up getting pregnant by Phillip and they married, (much to both Kay and Jill's dismay.) Phillip had a major drinking problem though, and ended up dead after drunk-driving in his sports car.
Several affairs later, Jill found herself on the radar of Victor. They slept together a few times and Jill assumed she would certainly be the next Mrs. Victor Newman. Hapless Jill, no more than shared her elation at the prospect with Jack, than The Mustache let her know that she was just a fling and he had no real intentions where she was concerned. Mortified, Jill quickly found her way back into John's heart, and they remarried, much to his children's dismay. Jill wanted to have a baby, though John felt he was too old. But Jill managed to get pregnant before John got a secret vasectomy. When he discovered she was already pregnant, he insisted she have an abortion but Jill couldn't do it. John did wonder if Billy might actually be Victor's, since he knew they had been together in September. But when Jill gave birth to William "Billy" Abbott on the 4th of July the math did not wash. John eventually accepted Billy and came to love him. Jill's affair with Jed Sanders due to John's impotency, caused their second divorce, which resulted a bitter custody battle over Billy and a stroke for John. John got custody of Billy and, unable to bear Jabot under Newman, they moved to New York City.
The latest chapter in the Jill vs. Kay saga began with Jill living temporarily at the Chancellor Estate after her failed 2nd marriage to John Abbott. Living there gave Jill flashbacks to her early days of love with Phillip, which prompted her to rummage in boxes in the Chancellor attic. She found a letter from Phillip declaring his love and a deed giving her the Chancellor Estate. Jill used these and the crossed out Chancellor divorce property settlement to sue Kay in court, won 1/2 of the estate, and moved back in permanently. Nothing like having two people who hate each other living under the same roof. Enter Mackenzie Browning, Kay's son Brock's long lost teenage daughter (whom Jill cannot abide). Although Jill did her best to stop it, her son Billy has fallen in love with Mac.
The mysterious Sean Bridges, Jabot's new website designer, scoped out the options and chose "older woman" Jill Abbott as his companion. While Jill remained wary of this hot younger man and his motives, he managed to sweep her off her feet. Sean was a good influence on the embittered Jill, showing us a bit of the fun-loving innocent woman she once was. Sean moved in to the Chancellor Estate and lived with Jill. But Sean finally gave up trying to get Jill to get over her paranoia over Kay and marry him, and left for New York City.
To show her gratitude, and to provide security around the Estate now filled with only women since Sean had moved out, Kay offered X-Con turned pussycat, Larry Warton, the garage apartment to live. Larry couldn't believe it, but insisted he couldn't live there free. They agreed on an exchange of rent for his working on Kay's 16 cars. With both bruised from their ended relationships, Larry and Jill began to bond. Chemistry flared, and it wasn't long before they ended up in bed, Larry still carrying his battle scars from Ralph. Jill was keeping their relationship secret, after all Larry is "so below Jill's status." But Larry was a good influence on Jill. Larry told her about his mother, who was upset with him when he first went to prison, but in the end forgave him and visited him often. This prompted Jill to give in and go say goodbye to her son Billy when, instead of going to college, he left for Louisiana to help Mac's father, Brock, build houses for the poor . Billy and his mother shared a tearful parting although Jill still felt he was making a mistake. Kay caught Larry leaving Jill's bedroom one morning via the trellis, and their secret was out. Jill made a scene denying and insulting poor Larry in front of Kay. Later, Larry showed up at the Jabot boardroom and returned the favor by spilling their secret and a box of her sex toys in front of John Abbott and Fredrick Hodges. Larry was then fired by Jill, and talked sexual harassment lawsuit with Attorney Michael Baldwin. But Larry's feelings for Jill wouldn't let him go through with it. They eventually reconciled and Jill got Larry a job as Assistant Security Manger at Jabot.
Out of the blue in 2003, Jill's mother Liz showed up in Genoa City from her home in England with the news that Liz was to undergo brain surgery, and knowing she may not survive, felt it was time to admit to Jill that she was adopted. All she knew was that her husband Bill brought Jill home wrapped in a blanket as a baby. Jill was fraught with needing to know who she really is. Larry and John are doing their best to let her know that she is the same person no matter what her parentage, and they do care. The night before Liz's surgery, brothers Snapper and Greg showed up too, not seen in Genoa City in 20 years. Liz survived her surgery. After a aborted attempts to con and steal her birth certificate from the hospital records by Jill then Larry, Jill's friend, banker Frederick Hodges, contacted a search agency. They were able to arrange a meeting between Jill and her birth mother, the always-tipsy, crusty, down-on-her-luck, Charlotte Ramsey. Liz gave her blessing to the meeting while Kay fumed at how Jill was so quick to abandon Liz. Jill and Charlotte were becoming close, while John Abbott was getting suspicious that Charlotte was more interested in Jill's money. John realized that he used to date Charlotte's sister Eileen in high school, and without telling Kay why quizzed her for what she knew about the family. Kay, after much agonizing, revealed the story of how she had once helped Eileen's sister Charlotte get an illegal abortion which she nearly died from which left her unable to have more children. John did the math and realized that there was no way then that Charlotte could be Jill's mother. John confronted Charlotte who broke down and revealed that she and Katherine "ran the town together" during a year of separation from Kay's first husband Gary who took young Brock to Europe. During that time, Kay got pregnant by Gary's golfing buddy Arthur Hendricks. To protect the reputation of the young Katherine Shepard, Charlotte agreed to take Kay's newborn baby girl to a place to be adopted in exchange for a lot of cash and a promise to disappear. The agency refused to take the child without a name on a birth certificate, so to protect young socialite Kay, Charlotte had used her own name. Charlotte went to Kay to tell her story before John did. Kay had a stroke when she realized that the baby she gave up many years ago was now her own worst enemy Jill ! Charlotte told poor Elizabeth the truth and abruptly left town, leaving her to tell Jill that her nemesis Kay is her birth mother and Brock that the young girl he once married in Jill, but fortunately never consummated, was actually his half sister. And worst of all, Mac and Billy who are about to be married, had to be told that they are actually cousins! Mac and Billy both left town on their own, devastated by the news. Jill was left to care for Kay who could not move or talk from the stroke. As Kay got better, she didn't let Jill know, testing her to see if just maybe she might care for her like a mother. But eventually Kay showed Jill she was nearly back to normal, and thanks to the influence of Larry, Jill was able to begin to come to grips with how she really feels about Kay. Jill and Kay fought over the disruption of having Esther around, so Kay and Esther moved into the Genoa City Hotel to give Jill some space. Jill then became so obnoxious to Larry she drove him away too. Jill is very much alone and turning to the bottle a little too often. Her only friend appeared to be the shady strip club owner, Bobby Marcino.
Jill began her outlandish plans to renovate the mansion to make it her own. Once Kay saw the workmen demolishing the foyer ceiling of her beloved home, she flipped out and began drinking again after 20 years on the wagon. Jill felt guilty that she drove her newly discovered mother to drink. Kay moved back home and the mansion was restored back to the way it was, but Kay was still drinking. So who should suddenly show up in Genoa City to visit Kathryn after a nearly 50 year absence? Judge Arthur Hendricks - Jill's biological father. Jill hoped he would be just the ticket to bring Kay back to caring about life again. Meanwhile Jill got to know her father, and he moved into the mansion. Then MacKenzie returned after spending time in the Southwestern US teaching kindergarten and preschool children on an Indian Reservation. Kay's dear friend and maid Esther became a trained alcohol abuse councilor. With her help, Jill, Arthur and Mac staged an intervention, attended by son Brock, friends Nikki Newman, Liz Foster, and Lauren Fenmore. Kay found out, and welcomed all her friends and family with a catered party with full bar! They all pleaded with Kay, then bid her farewell, and left. Alone and drunk, Kay passed out and had a vision where her dear husband Rex and Grandson Phillip returned from the dead to make one final plea. Kay awoke, sure it was a dream, until she found the glass she fell asleep with in her hand, now on the table where Rex had put it. Kay checked in to rehab and is now back living at the Chancellor estate clean and sober.
Jill became involved with Jack Abbott romantically once again, something they both seemed to need. While sitting in on a Chancellor Industries board meeting for Kay, Jill noticed irregularities, so decided to get more involved. With Jack's help, she discovered financial discrepancies which indicated that CEO Elliott Hampton was living high on company funds. Jill confronted the slimy Elliott, but he snowed her with excuses and charm. Jill then got a tip from former mobster Bobby Marcino that someone was trying to contract a hit on her. Elliott ended up charming Jill into accepting his marriage proposal. But shortly afterward, investigation proved that Elliott had embezzled millions. When Jill confronted him, he tried to talk her into still marrying him and running away with him and the millions. Jack showed up in time to watch Jill regretfully turn him down. After Elliott fled, Jack admitted that he had gotten all of Elliott's offshore accounts frozen pending the investigation.
No sooner had Arthur proposed to Kay, than his step-son Harrison Bartlett showed up claiming that Arthur had killed his mother, Eleanor, for her fortune. Jill had Arthur investigated, but it only proved allegations were made but never proven, and Arthur was never charged. Jill and Kay confronted Arthur, but he refused to explain, saying that Bartlett had ruined his career and his life. Jill was still skeptical, but Kay was determined to take a leap of faith and marry Arthur anyway. But Arthur said goodbye, that he couldn't live with the cloud of suspicion and left town. Kay blamed Jill for losing Arthur, and the feud began once again.
Katherine made Jack Abbott CEO of Chancellor Industries, and Jack wrangled a deal to rescue Jabot by making it a subsidiary of Chancellor. After a failed attempt to convince Victoria Newman to return to Genoa City and become Jabot's new CEO, Jill Abbott was given the position after she and Kay finally made amends. Brad, who was expecting to get the CEO position himself, quit his job with Jabot, and considered going into business with Victoria Newman. Jack offered Victoria the position of Jill's right hand at Jabot, but Victor won her back as CEO at Newman while Nick took a leave of absence. Her first move as CEO was to hire Brad, but Brad later left to work at Newman with Victoria.
In 2006, only six months into his 7 year prison sentence for the murder of Tom Fisher, Jill's X-husband and still close friend, John Abbott, was about to be released early due to ill heath when he had a stroke and was rushed to GC Memorial in grave condition. The doctors made the family aware that John would never come out of his vegetative state and had signed a DNR. After much bickering between his wife Gloria and Jack, Gloria decided to use her authority in the DNR to allow John to die. Kay and Jill said their farewells to John in the hospital.
Billy spent a year working on the Katrina Hurricane disaster recovery in New Orleans, then some time as a bartender at Sammy Seagull's Sandpit Bar & Grill in Miami. He returned to Genoa City in 2006 to attend his father John's funeral. Jill and Katherine encouraged him to stay and claim his legacy as both a Chancellor and and Abbott by learning the business of Chancellor Industries and Jabot Cosmetics. Billy relented and began attending GCU as a business major and working his way up at Jabot from the mail room. Turned out that Billy had a bad gambling habit, and that he still owed some bookies in Miami a lot of money, so when no one would give him any, he stole and pawned an antique scrimshaw from the Chancellor estate. Kay discovered it and told Jill and Jack, so they gave him a job as NVP/Jabot Liaison for House of Kim, and shipped him off to Hong Kong.
Shortly after getting a DNA test that confirmed Jill was indeed her daughter, Katherine began having disturbing nightmares of a baby crying. Through the help of psychic Silvia Brown whose card reading turned into a séance with Jill's dead son Phillip, Kay began to remember a ring and a scene where she was handing over a baby. When it finally came back to her she was forced to reveal to Jill that Kay had switched her son Phillip for another baby shortly after his birth, and had given a woman named Violet an expensive ring to secure the deal. Because of her heavy drinking and shame, Kay had blocked this out all these years. Jill was torn between being livid with Kay and relieved that her son Phillip was not dead after all. They hired JT to try to track down the real Phillip Chancellor III. And Amber Moore also did her own research consulting tarot cards and psychics, and the Internet. Amber found Cane whose adopted mother was named Violet. He was searching for his mother and came to Genoa City from Australia on her lead. A DNA test later proved him to be the real Phillip Chancellor, son of Jill. Violet died while he was still a baby. Her brother Langley took the baby home to Australia and raised him as his own, naming him Ethan "Cane" Ashby. Phillips's body was exhumed and found not to be Jill's biological son. It is unknown who Phillip really belonged to. Amber and Cane got cozy, and after she discovered the possible link to the Chancellor millions, she took him to Vegas to get married supposedly to keep him from being deported back to Australia. At the last minute Cane decided against the marriage, so Amber drugged him and got her friend Ali to take his place in disguise, telling him he was too drunk to remember being married the next morning.
Amber continued to trick her way into Cane's heart and impending fortune. She staged power outages in their apartment and a burglary at the Chancellor Estate which eventually led Katherine to ask Amber and Cane to move into the estate. Kay asked Cane to take a position with Chancellor Industries as Clear Springs Property Manager, but he refused, saying that he was not qualified and not wanting a hand-out. But he was talked into taking it temporarily until Kay could get a permanent person. Just as we began to trust Cane that his claim was legitimate, we overheard a phone conversation between him and his uncle Langley in Australia inferring that he is conning them. Cane finally discovered that he and Amber were not legally married, confronted her and made her sign an acknowledgement that she tricked him into marriage to make it void, then threw her out. Jill reacted nastily telling Amber it was time that Cane threw out the trash, but Kay kindly told her that she reminded her of herself, and she really needed to get her act together.
It wasn't long before Gloria set her sights on the recently widowed DA, Will Bardwell, who had just come into an inheritance. She started attending widow's grief counseling to be with him, and was working against Jill, one of her few friends, in an effort to keep Jill away from Will. Gloria got Kevin to monitor the security cameras at Jabot, and they discovered that Jack was the secret owner of Jabot. Living with Michael and Lauren, they discovered all of Kevin and Gloria's secrets. Using a little sexual enhancement drug to make sure that Jill and Ji Min got it on in the board room, and the video feed to monitor them, she and Will walked in on them and Will dumped Jill. But altho Jill found out about the drugging, she and Ji Min become an item, and engaged to be married. Then Jill found out that Ji Min was actually in cahoots with Jack as a front for the illegal sale of Jabot to Jack, and had lied to her and everyone that he was duped. Jill said they were through and walked out on him, but later made a deal to take him back and trust him again if he will go public about the Jabot buyout by Jack and Kay.
Victor returned as arrogant and controlling as ever, still intent on somehow bringing Jack down. It wasn't until weeks later, and after he'd agreed to sell NVP to Nikki, that Victor discovered Jack had sold Jabot to Katherine, so he had lost his leverage over Jack. Livid with Jack, Kay, and Ji Min for outwitting him, Victor lit into Nikki for not warning him, telling her he only sold her NVP so she would have to sell her Jabot stock, then he could go after Jack, not to please her! Nikki had enough of his pompous behavior, moved out, and have divorced again. Nikki asked David Chow to work for her running NVP, and they became lovers. Meanwhile Ji Min Kim turned up dead in his room at the GC Athletic Club. Victor and Jack were prime suspects.
Due to a mini-stroke, Katherine decided it was time to put her house in order. She took a liking to Amber, seeing a lot of herself in her, and hired her to assist in writing her memoires, and also investing in Amber's designer fashion line. Kay made Jill CEO of Chancellor Industries, Cane Director of Acquisitions and later Vice President of Jabot, and mad Nikki Newman CEO of Jabot. Nikki hired her lover (now husband) David Chow as Co-CEO and Brad Carlton as another Jabot executive. Jill is micro-managing Jabot, not being confident in Nikki's abilities. Jill later fired Gloria for incompetence, but Gloria talked Kay into rehiring her as the Jabot receptionist. Jill came on hot & heavy to the newly divorced Jeff, seducing him in her office chair, but it wasn't long before he finally realized that the woman he wanted was Gloria. Jeff broke it off with Jill, and Jill took it out on Gloria, treating her like a slave. Jeff returned to Gloria and asked to start over together. Gloria went along with it half-heartedly until they made love again. Then Jeff coaxed her to his place, showed her 50 million in cash to frolic in, asked her to remarry him, and they eloped to Las Vegas with a wedding officiated by Little Richard. They later spotted David Chow losing big at roulette.
