Paul Williams
Actor History
Doug Davidson (1978 to Present)
Lifeline
He was 17 years old in 1978.
Occupation
Investigator with Baldwin, Blair and Associates
Former owner of Paul Williams Detective Agency
Former Genoa City Police Officer
Former waiter
Resides At
Apartment, unknown address
Marital Status
Married Isabella Braña (Separated/Divorced?status unknown)
Past Marriages
April Stevens (divorced)
Lauren Fenmore (divorced)
Christine Blair (divorced)
Relatives
Carl Williams (father)
Mary Williams (mother)
Father Todd Williams (brother)
Steven Williams (brother)
Patti Williams (sister)
Daniel Romalotti Jr. (Godson)
Children
Unnamed Child (miscarriage; with Lauren)
Heather Stevens (daughter; with April)
Ricardo (Ricky) Carl Williams (son; with Isabella)
Flings & Affairs
Nikki Reed
Cindy Lake (deceased)
Cassandra Rawlins (deceased)
Isabella Braña
Christine Blair
Ashley Abbott
Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan
Crimes Committed
Kidnapped and held Sheila Carter against her will.
Witnessed Brad Carlton kill two men in self defense and knows he got rid of their bodies, told no one.
Arrested for the murder of George Rawlins, but was later exonerated
Brief Character History
When we first met Paul in his late teens, he and Danny Romalotti were waiters and best friends. Paul was having a fling with Nikki Reed. Both were quite promiscuous, and Paul ended up giving Nikki a venereal disease. Nevertheless, Nikki and Paul have remained close friends through the years. Paul lived at home with his family which included his younger sister Patti and older brother Steve. Another unseen brother, Todd was praised highly by his devoutly Catholic parents for joining the priesthood. When Nikki decided to clean up her act in order to land Greg Foster, Paul had a fling with April Stevens. April got pregnant, Paul tried to talk her into having an abortion. She refused to tell her parents who the father was, and they pressured April by telling her she had a twin sister that was given up for adoption at birth because her parents couldn't handle both. April refused the abortion, and Paul turned his back on her. Paul escaped the pressure by joining the New World Commune with Nikki, which turned out to be a scam that Paul helped his reporter brother Steve and Peggy Brooks to expose. After they escaped the cult, Greg Foster fell for April but when Heather fell gravely ill, he encouraged Paul to do the right thing and marry April. They were married and they lived in a shabby apartment. Heather recovered but was a colicky baby and cried all the time. Parental responsibility proved too much for Paul and they mutually decided to divorce. April went home to live with her parents in New York City. Paul began the first step in his dectective career by finding April's twin sister Barbara Conway and reuniting her with her family.
In an effort to help him mature, Paul's police detective father, Carl, got Paul on the police force assisting with his cases. When Nikki was abducted by Rick Daros, Victor Newman came to Paul and Carl, who rescued her. Paul and fellow Officer, Andy Richards, worked under cover infiltrating the mob and were instrumental in helping the police bring down the mob boss known as Mr. Anthony. During his time with the mob, Paul became involved with Cindy Lake, a hooker "with a heart of gold," who ended up taking a bullet meant for Paul and dying in his arms. Paul and Andy left the force to become Private Detectives, with Jazz the mobster "with a heart of gold" as their operative. Their secretary Amy Lewis, was the daughter of the police captain and a singer on the side.
Once Paul began working for and getting referrals from Victor, he became more successful, moved into a posh office in Newman Towers and branched out into security systems with his new partner, another former mobster, Nathan (Kong) Hastings, and loyal secretary Lynne Bassett.
Paul's mother Mary was constantly setting him up with good wholesome girls who would give him the grand children which she so desperately wanted. This included Lynne and daughters of ladies of her church. But Paul became involved with and married the fun and fiery Lauren Fenmore, daughter of Neil Fenmore owner of Fenmore Department stores. Mary felt Lauren was too flamboyant and all wrong for Paul. Paul and Lauren were happy for quite a while until a stalker named Sean came into her life and arranged for Paul to misunderstand their relationship. Paul and Lauren divorced, but Paul ended up rescuing her from Sean who had kidnapped her and left her buried alive in San Francisco. Lauren lost their baby (which Paul didn't even know about) in the ordeal, but they were reunited. Lauren's next trick was to enter a nude photo of Paul in a contest which ended up a magazine centerfold, that made Paul decide they would not remarry, but remain friends instead.
Paul met Cassandra Rawlins and contracted her interior decorating skills to redo his office and bachelor pad. Paul and Cassandra fell in love, and Paul proposed. What a shock for Paul when wealthy industrialist, George Rawlins, invited Paul to dinner one night and introduced him to his wife Cassie. George confided in Paul that he feared his young wife would leave him since he was impotent, and asked Paul to sire a child for them. Paul refused. Cassandra asked George for a divorce to be with Paul, causing George to have a heart attack. After George recovered he was bent on revenge against Paul and Cassandra, so set Paul up for his own murder. Paul was arrested for murder but Victor Newman and Carl Williams helped him to fake his suicide and uncover the real story. It was Cassandra's lover Adrian who had killed George, and Cassandra had set him up to take the fall..
Paul began working on cases with lawyer Christine Blair, who was once married to his best friend Danny Romalotti. They became involved romantically as Paul and Chris' exploits took them to Vietnam to find Jack Abbot's long-lost son Keemo, in helping old folks, Margaret and Miles, fight their slumlord, and in winning decent housing for Rainbow Garden's elderly tenants.
In 1993 April showed up in GC again to visit Paul's mother Mary with 13 year old Heather. April was badly bruised, supposedly from a car accident. But when Paul asked to be part of Heather's life, April refused, and said they were happy in New York City with her dentist husband Robert Lynch. Robert had adopted Heather, and she did not know that Robert was not her real father. After April returned to her family in NYC, Robert beat her, accusing her of sleeping with Paul. Paul and Chris discovered that April was a battered wife, went to New York City and got her into a support group, but could not convince her to leave Robert.
April returned to GC a year later after again being beaten by Robert over the holidays. Although April was still attracted to Paul, he gently turned her down. Concerned for Heather, whom she left behind, April returned to Robert. When he tried to keep April in line by threatening Heather, April fatally stabbed him with a letter opener, and was charged with murder. To April's relief Christine Blair and John Silva volunteered to represent her in court. Christine and Silva's dynamic representation won April a suspended sentence due to self-defense. After being reunited with Heather, April told Paul she wanted to begin a new life away from Genoa City. April and Heather returned to New York, much to Paul and Mary's disappointment. They went to live with her sister Barbara who was rich and ended up financing Heather's education at a college in New York where her room mate Macy was murdered - the same college where Professor Adrian Korbel taught, and Korbel has admitted he turned in a fellow professor for having an affair with Macy.
On Chris and Paul's wedding day, Phyllis Romalotti, convinced that Chris stood in the way of her and Danny reuniting, ran them down with a car, leaving Paul impotent. Once Paul recovered, the postponed wedding still almost never happened after Paul walked in on Chris and Danny's sexual encounter. Chris managed to choose between them, and married Paul. Paul and Chris agreed they both wanted children but had trouble conceiving once they finally put her career aside long enough to try. The cocky and very successful attorney Michael Baldwin who was once put in prison for kidnapping Christine, somehow convinced her to join him in starting a Law practice together. The practice was so successful that she again put having a family on hold, causing a great rift in her marriage. In a desperate attempt to mend their marriage while still furthering her career, Christine took a case in Hong Kong which would mean moving there for months. Paul first balked at the idea, then decided to "do it for them", put HIS career on hold and move. But at the last minute, Paul backed out, so Christine lived in Hong Kong for months on her own with very little contact. Christine was offered a case in Australia when the Hong Kong case was finished, but she turned it down and was determined to go home to Genoa City and try to mend her shattered marriage. She arrived at the apartment only to find Paul in the arms of his new client Isabella. Without a word to Paul, she accepted the case in Australia and filed for divorce.
Isabella didn't want to tell Paul that she was pregnant because she felt that he was too hung up on Chris, so she had a brief affair with Michael and told him that he was the father. Michael was outraged at first, even drew up legal papers for her to sign. But Isabella has something on Michael from the past, so he backed down and went along with her demands of rent, baby furniture, and everything she needed to live until the baby was born. Michael also arranged for a job for her in another town for afterward. Just as Michael was softening to the idea of a child and a future with Isabella, and Paul was getting involved with former wife Lauren Fenmore, Paul found out about the baby's paternity and wanted to be a father to the child. With this major lie Isabella fell out of grace with both Michael and Mary.
Paul moved in with Isabella and continued to use her manipulating ways to keep him under her thumb as tightly as possible. Paul's mother, Mary, went to great lengths to try to convince him that Isabella was all wrong for him and will ruin his life, and to convince Isabella to go away to a home for unwed mothers. All despite the fact that Isabella was about to provide Mary with the grandchild and Paul with the child, they both have always wanted. Mary even begged for help from unlikely sources in Lauren, Christine, and even Michael - all of whom she disapproved of as well, but had had no luck at all. But Paul moved out on his own volition when Isabella started pressuring him to get married. Their baby boy, Ricardo Carl Williams, was born, but unlike Isabella's delusions, Paul was not willing to become one happy family with her. Complicating things was the sudden return of Christine, who rebuffed him for the baby's sake, although she still had feelings for him. Paul's response was to marry and move in with Isabella.
Christine spent long hours working with Michael Baldwin and they became closer, sharing dinners and their feelings together. They finally broached the subject of their past, and although Chris agreed Michael was a changed man, it still haunted her. That and her still lingering feelings for Paul made it rough on Michael. But Christine decided to put the past behind her and accepted Michael's marriage proposal. Paul invited Isabella's estranged father Ricardo to Ricky's Christening, and they happily reunited. Michael showed up, asked Ricardo not to mention they knew each other or Isabella's past, then announced his engagement to Chris, much to Paul's rage! Paul attacked Michael, who left with a black eye. Paul showed up at Chris's apartment and forced himself on her. At one point she reciprocated, cut to commercial, then we see Paul leaving a devastated-looking Christine, saying he was sorry about everything. Was it rape? (She never said No - just 'We shouldn't'.) Or was it two people who love each other, but have screwed up their lives to the point where they cannot be together? Later Chris disappeared, leaving both Michael and Paul wondering. Chris was gone for months when the guilt got to Paul, and he told Isabella that he and Chris had sex that night. Isabella left him, only returning occasionally to see Ricky.
Chris returned in disguise as the dark-haired mysterious Kelly Simmons, bent on getting the goods on Isabella. Paul saw through Chris' disguise, and they came to an understanding about the "rape", but Paul chose Isabella and his son. Paul took Ricky to Isabella's parents in Los Angeles, leaving her to finish packing for their move there. Just before they were to be married, Michael confessed to Chris that he set up Isabella to meet Paul so she and Paul would split for good, then Michael could have Chris. Chris exploded, walked out on Michael, and flew to LA to tell Paul the whole story. She found Paul camping on a beach, told him the truth, and they ended up making love in the sand. Upon their return to Genoa City, Paul moved back into their former apartment with Chris, while Isabella plotted revenge
One night Isabella called her only friend Diane Jenkins who was with Michael, told them someone was breaking in, then screamed. When Michael arrived he found what appeared to be a bloody murder scene and Isabella missing. Christine woke up unconscious in her car in the woods and told Michael and Paul of her only memory - Isabella screaming not to hurt her, of blood, and a boat. Michael tracked down the boat, which was covered in blood, and destroyed the evidence against Chris. The night before Chris was to be arrested for Isabella's murder, she was attacked in her bathtub by a very much alive Isabella who had drugged her wine, telling her how she had set her up, while wielding a butcher knife. Paul arrived in the nick of time, but was slugged and knocked out. As he was reviving the nearly drowned Christine, Michael arrived and saved them both from the crazed Isabella. The cops arrived and hauled Isabella away. She was committed to a mental hospital, and Paul and Chris were free to be together once again. Paul moved in with Christine, and soon proposed. Christine laughed, didn't take it seriously, so Paul moved out. Paul began seeing his X-wife Lauren Fenmore, but she ended up becoming lovers with Paul's nemesis, Michael Baldwin.
Paul lost his lease and took Christine up on her offer to join the law firm of Baldwin & Blair as their investigator. Awaiting renovation of an office, he officed with Christine. JT Hellstrom began working for him as an operative learning the ropes. Paul occasionally dated Ashley Abbott. His lbig case involved saving Bobby Marcino from the Mob. (See Bobby Marcino profile.) Another of his big cases was working with Christine to try to prove Daniel Romalotti innocent of the vehicular manslaughter of Cassie Newman. He also rescued Lauren Fenmore from her kidnapping in 2005 (See Lauren Fenmore profile).
In 2006 Victor hired Paul Williams Investigations to check on new son-in-law Brad's past, though after Victor sustained his head injury which changed his perspective on things, he asked Paul to drop the case. But after they discovered in Cleveland from a high school annual photo, that this person was not the real Brad Carlton, JT became concerned for Brad's daughter Colleen, and stayed on the case. Colleen found out about it, and encouraged the investigation. With the help of Paul's Cleveland PI contact Kara, clues uncovered showed that the Kaplan family, including their 15 year old daughter Stephanie was murdered, and 18 year old son George was sought for questioning. Three months later George's body had been found Presumed the victim of a hit and run, the police thought they had the murderer, and at the same time Brad Carlton joined the Navy Seals.
Victoria confronted Sharon about kissing Brad, then fired her from Newman. Sharon went running to Brad who sent her on a mysterious errand to deliver a red tote bag to a car downtown for him. Brad's daughter Colleen confronted him with what she knew about his mysterious past, and accused him of kidnapping JT. Brad explained his past to Colleen, then hustled her and Abby off to the private jet where they met his mother Rebecca, and were jetted to safety in Hawaii. Meanwhile Sharon arrived at Brad's to find the door ajar, and being mistaken for Brad's wife, was kidnapped and held captive with JT in Cleveland. Brad received a call from the kidnapper telling him they had Sharon. Victoria and Brad went back to Newman, and brought Nick and Paul in on the case. Nikki volunteered to take Noah away on a mini-vacation to see her sister Casey to keep him safe and oblivious to the fact that his mother was missing. Brad had to explain to all his past as George Kaplan and that the kidnappers wanted an artifact called the Grudgeon Reliquary. Then JT was dumped on Brad's doorstep as a warning. After they wasted days trying to track down the Reliquary on the Internet and through art dealers, Victoria decided to create a fake using two other similar Grudgeon pieces. They took the fake to Cleveland and Nick met the kidnapper and his henchman for the exchange at a church. Meanwhile, misled by the kidnappers, Brad, Paul and JT were converging on the shipping crate where Sharon had been held which was booby-trapped with explosives. They disarmed it in time, then arrived just in time to rescue Nick & Sharon as explosives attached to Sharon were about to detonate. Brad ended up fighting with the bad guys, and killed them both after the head guy admitted he was the Oscar Volkmann, son of the Commandant who was executed after Brad's mother's testimony. All arrived safely back in GC and vowed to never tell what went on for everyone's safety. ut more recently Brad and Victoria told Victor and Nikki, and Nick told Phyllis. Victor has now become determined to find the Grudgeon Reliquary in an attempt to help.
Paul Williams managed to track Sheila to Argentina in October 2006 and discovered that she had undergone plastic surgery to look like Phyllis Summers, then had killed the plastic surgeon. Paul, later in October, discovered her buying baby things in Genoa City, and followed her to a warehouse where he trapped her in the cell she had constructed with the intention of imprisoning Lauren and stealing her baby Fen. He made her pose for a death photo at gunpoint and made up DNA samples to convince Lauren and Michael that she was killed when struck by a car in Argentina. Paul also let Phyllis and Nick know. Paul kept her imprisoned there undetected until December when Michael put a tracking bug on Paul's car and caught Paul bringing her food. Michael picked the lock and was shocked to discover "Phyllis" behind the bars. Paul appeared and tried to convince Michael that it was really Sheila, but it took a cell phone call to the real Phyllis to convince him. Knowing the authorities can never keep her contained, Paul and Michael shared a secret and the dilemma of what to do with her. Meanwhile Lauren and the real Phyllis were bonding through their pregnancies as she helped Lauren get through her post partum depression and anxiety attacks.
Detective Maggie Sullivan and Paul Williams began dating, and in her curiosity about Paul's frequent absence "on a stakeout" she tracked him by his cell phone to the warehouse. Sheila conned her into believing she was Phyllis, Maggie let her loose, then Sheila shot her with her own gun. Paul arrived later and was trapped in the cell too by Sheila when he came to Maggie's aid. Sheila then went to Phyllis's, tied her up and waiting for Lauren and baby Fen to arrive, taunting Phyllis about how great it would be to take over her life with her hot husband and new baby. After Lauren arrived she was tied up, and Sheila took Phyllis and babies Fen and Summer to a retirement home where she had an apartment. Michael eventually rescued Paul and a near-death Maggie from the warehouse cell, and they rescued Lauren. While Michael and Paul followed Sheila's walkie talkie signal which she planted to lure them elsewhere, Nick and Lauren with the aid of Kevin enhanced the background noise from her latest taunting call. Nick realized where they were and while they tried to find Paul, Lauren snuck out with the gun Paul had given her for security. Lauren found the apartment, broke in, and confronted the two Phyllises. Phyllis managed to convince Lauren she was the real one, and Lauren shot Sheila dead! Her dying words still taunting Lauren that she would never be rid of her and she had shot the wrong one, lead us to believe that this may have yet been another pawn of Sheila and she may still be out there and a threat. Phyllis was livid with Michael and Lauren for endangering her and her baby Summer, but they eventually reconciled. Maggie recovered from her gunshot wound and did not tell the police about Paul or Michael holding Sheila in that cell, so they were not charged.
Paul and Maggie continued to be involved, and Maggie underwent quite a transformation from her usual "plain Jane" cop persona into a very attractive woman. She and Paul had great chemistry, and was a welcome addition to Genoa City and Paul's life. They became involved in the investigation of the Glo By Jabot tainted face cream scandal, the murder of Ji Min Kim, and were suspicious of the death of DA Will Bardwell.
In 2007, Paul was shocked to meet Heather who showed up in GC as the new Assistant DA. After months of becoming close friends, he pondered whether or not to tell her he is her father, and he finally decided to do it. Heather reacted with resentment, but she is mellowing toward him since her mother April paid them a visit.
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. On returning from their honeymoon, Victor ran into Nikki and could see she was upset, but Victor left when Paul interrupted, and Paul comforted Nikki. Meanwhile David, on a business trip to Hollywood, cut it short to gamble in Vegas - where he was spotted by Gloria losing big at the roulette table. Gloria conveniently let it slip to Nikki before David got home, so David confessed and asked Nikki for a divorce "to save her from him" but she refused to give up on him thinking they could work it out together. Paul discovered that David was hiding his gambling from her and his real name was Angelo Seraffini, and he worked for mobster Walter Palin, A/K/A Anthony “Tony” Amato, doing coverup and possibly a hitman. Nikki told David she would no long be made a fool of. David pleaded that he'd had an alcoholic mother and deadbeat father, how he'd had run-ins with the law since he was 11, got into organized crime, petty stuff like breaking and entering and shoplifting, how he had to reinvent himself to overcome his reputation, and was going straight now, but Nikki was adamant that they would divorce right after the charity ball.
Paul has been there for Nikki all through her ordeal with David and following his death. Victor left guests waiting at Sabrina's funeral only to have the minister tell them that the funeral had been held earlier privately and her body was already interred. Victor had disappeared, leaving his cell phone, wallet and epilepsy medication buried on her grave. Adam in his concern, decided to change his name to Victor Newman Jr. Meanwhile the stockholders at Newman voted Victoria back in as CoCEO in Victor’s absence and because the ranch was part of Newman Enterprises, she took it upon herself to kick Adam out. Paul traced him to Mexico where he had been hanging out in a cantina awaiting the arrival of Walter, the man he holds responsible for Sabrina's death. Paul and Nikki have gone there to find Victor.
