From ABC
This shrewd businessman runs his family like he runs his companies - mercilessly. But he does have one Achilles' heel. Her name is Lila, and she's his wife.
In 1980, Edward tested daughter Tracy's loyalty by pretending to have a heart attack. She failed the test - miserably.
Edward got to know his illegitimate son, Jimmy Lee Holt, three years later.
Before he passed away, Lila's first husband revealed that his and Lila's divorce was never finalized - and therefore, Edward and Lila's marriage wasn't legal!
In 1989, Edward faked his own death by taking a one-way trip to the Bermuda Triangle. Tracy brought him home two years later.
When Edward learned that Tracy had teamed up with corporate raider Jax to try to overthrow ELQ, he banished his daughter from Port Charles forever.
No one who knows Edward Quartermaine is surprised by the model of dysfunction that his family is. The tycoon's idea of bringing his kinfolk closer together is pitting them against one another. Miraculously, through it all, he hasn't stopped hearing the voice of reason - wife Lila's. He doesn't always (or even usually) listen to it, but at least he hears it.
In 1980, Edward decided to test daughter Tracy's loyalty. Before signing a will that would disinherit her, he collapsed on the floor and pleaded with her to give him his heart medicine. She refused, unless he promised not to sign the document. At that, Edward jumped up, chuckling. Tracy had failed the test.
Three years later, Edward was visited by Jimmy Lee Holt, his illegitimate son by old flame Beatrice LeSeur. When Lila's first husband, Crane Tolliver, passed away that same year, he passed along to Jimmy Lee proof that his divorce from Lila never was finalized - thus making all of the Quartermaines illegitimate!
A year later, Edward married Lila again - legally this time! But in 1984, Beatrice showed up in Port Charles and threatened to expose the Quartermaines' cover-up. When she dropped dead at a charity gala, Edward was suspected of poisoning her, but he hadn't; Beatrice had merely sipped Lila's heart medication by mistake.
By 1989, Edward was so fed up with Alan and Tracy's bickering that rather than put up with it for a second longer, he rewrote his will, leaving everything to Tracy's son, Ned Ashton, and went on a one-way fishing trip to the Bermuda Triangle. Even after Edward was presumed dead, Lila still spoke to his picture - and he still spoke back!
Two years later, Tracy found Edward playing beach bum in the Bahamas and dragged him back to civilization. In 1993, after Tracy had endangered the family by running down her daughter-in-law, Jenny Eckert, out of jealousy over her own husband Paul Hornsby's interest in Ned's wife, Edward banished her a second time.
That same year, Edward loaned grandson A.J. the money to buy into the Port Charles Hotel so that he could be assured of seeing more of the competition between A.J. and Ned that so amused him. In 1994, after Edward was accused of murdering Bradley Ward years earlier, Bradley's mother, Mary Mae Ward, revealed that Edward was Bradley's father - thus making Justus Ward Edward's grandson!
In 1996, Edward became so anxious to shut down the singing career of his two-faced grandson, Ned, a.k.a. Eddie Maine, that he bought "Eddie's" record company, L&B, right out from under the noses of Ned's wife, Lois, and her business partner, Brenda Barrett. That same year, Edward had no choice but to welcome two new faces to the ELQ board meetings: mobster Sonny Corinthos, to whom grandson Jason gave his shares in the company after being brain damaged in a car accident, and Jax, an unscrupulous corporate raider.
When it came to light that Tracy was in cahoots with Jax in a bid to take over ELQ, Edward reverted to form: He banished his daughter for a third time. Edward resides in the Quartermaine Mansion at 66 Harbor View Rd. in Port Charles, New York.
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