Asa Buchanan
					Wife: Renee Buchanan Children: Clint Buchanan (with Olympia Buchanan), Bo Buchanan (with Olympia Buchanan), Ben Davidson (deceased; with Renee Buchanan) Grandchildren: Natalie Vega, Jessica Buchanan (adoptive), Kevin Buchanan (adoptive), Joey Buchanan (adoptive), Cord Roberts, Drew Buchanan (deceased), Matthew Rappaport Great Grandchildren: Sarah "Flash" Roberts, CJ Roberts, Megan Buchanan (deceased), Duke Buchanan (adoptive) Siblings: Pike Buchanan Nephew: Austin Buchanan (deceased), Rafe Garretson Significant Romantic Relationships: Olympia Buchanan (1st wife/divorced), Mimi King, Samantha Vernon (2nd wife/divorced), Delila Ralston (3rd wife/divorced), Becky Lee Abbott (4th wife/divorced), Pamela Stuart (5th wife/divorced), Renee Divine (6th,10th and 13th wife), Blair Cramer (7th wife/divorced), Alex Olanov (8th and 9th wife/divorced), Gabrielle Medina (11th wife/divorced), Rae Cummings (12th wife/divorced) Asa Buchanan is a self-made millionaire, the owner of many diversified holdings through Buchanan Enterprises. He married his first wife, Olympia, at an early age and she bore him two sons, Clint and Bo. Asa soon discovered Olympia's long time affair with Yancey Ralston and banished Olympia to Europe. He told his sons their mother was dead. Asa arrived in Llanview in 1979 where his son Clint was managing the local paper, The Banner. Upon arrival, Asa became enamored of young Samantha Vernon, and set about to win her affection. Despite their large age difference, Asa managed to prove himself a vital lover, and he and Samantha made plans to marry. Asa soon found his good fortune turning when a woman named Nicole Bonard came to town. In reality, she was Olympia Buchanan, Asa's long banished first wife. Asa feared Olympia's reappearance could ruin his relationship with his sons and with Samantha. Asa had Olympia kidnapped and held prisoner. The wedding to Samantha went off as planned, but Olympia eventually escaped her imprisonment. Samantha learned the truth of Asa's misdeeds and left him. After a fall Olympia died, but not before she told Bo that Asa wasn't his father. Yancey Ralston was. Asa took up again with former mistress Mimi King and the two got engaged, but Asa soon met Delila Ralston and became obsessed with her. Bo also had feelings for Delila, but believing he was a Ralston, knew he could never become involved with her as they were related. Sharing similar feelings for Bo, Delila allowed herself to be seduced by Asa. The two married. Shortly after their wedding Asa was presumed dead in a boat explosion. Really alive, Asa wanted to test his "widow" to see if she would remain faithful to him---particularly with Bo. Hiring Brad Vernon as a spy, Asa soon believed that Bo and Delila were having an affair. He revealed himself and in short order a startling truth came out---Bo was really Asa's son. Asa had known all along, but never revealed the truth for he knew that it kept Delila and Bo apart. Furious, Delila divorced Asa while Bo cut all ties with his father. Asa learned that Becky Lee Abbot was pregnant with Bo's child and wanted custody of the child for himself. Becky Lee's fiancé, Drew Ralston, was killed so Becky Lee was able to be persuaded to marry Asa in order to give the baby a name (Becky Lee was telling everyone that Drew was the baby's father). Asa, along with Delila, tried his best to keep the truth of the baby's paternity from coming out, but Bo soon discovered that baby Drew Buchanan was his son. Asa loved Becky Lee and was devastated when she was presumed dead after a plane crash. In reality, Becky Lee had survived and was suffering from amnesia. During this period she fell in love with a local bar owner named Jesse. She regained her memory, but wanted to leave Llanview to start a life with Jesse. She divorced Asa and took her son Drew with her. A woman named Pamela Stuart came to Llanview looking for her husband Jeb-who was really Asa. For the past ten years Asa had been illegally married to Pamela under the name Jeb Stuart. Asa managed to play the part of Jeb while hiring someone to play Asa, thus assuaging any suspicion on Pamela's part. Scheming Tina Lord soon learned the truth and revealed all to Pamela. Pamela pretended to be dying in order to get Asa to come and visit her. Lying that she wanted to be his "honest, lawful wife" before she died, Pamela convinced Asa to marry her. After exchanging vows, Pamela revealed that she was in perfect health and proudly announced that she was Mrs. Asa Buchanan. Asa wanted to get rid of Pamela and tried to prove her an adulteress with Pete O'Neill. Asa soon found himself lusting after Pamela again, but Pamela and Pete had fallen in love. Pamela divorced Asa-but managed to get a nice settlement out of him. Maria Roberts came to town with her son Cord. Cord was, in fact, Asa's grandson via Clint. Years earlier, Maria had gotten pregnant by Cord and Asa had paid Maria and her mother (Asa's cook) to leave town. Fearful that the truth would be revealed, Asa schemed to get Cord out of Llanview by getting him a job in Arizona. Soon the truth about Cord's identity came out, and Clint nearly killed his father when he learned of the latter's machinations. Eventually Clint and Asa reconciled, and Cord and Asa developed a bond. Lee Sanders, the owner of Sanders Chemical, came to Llanview and Asa immediately set out to take the company away from her. While digging up dirt on Lee, he learned that she used to be a hooker. Renee Divine, Lee's old madam, came to Llanview to help out one of her "former girls." Renee remembered Asa from his visits to her brothel. Unafraid to stand up to him, Asa found himself falling in love with gutsy Renee. Patrick London had come to Llanview and disguised himself as Bo in order to get his hands on Asa's finances. In an effort to do so, Patrick needed to break up Asa and the overly suspicious Renee. "Bo" began drugging Asa, resulting in his mental facilities diminishing. Fingering Renee for the crime, she was arrested, but Asa had the charges dropped. The two remained at odds as "Bo" continued to drug Asa and nearly killed him. When the truth came out, Asa and Renee reconciled and married. The arrival of Asa's estranged nephew, Austin, caused Asa and Renee many complications, especially after Austin raped young Sarah Gordon. Asa made an enemy of Max Holden when the latter learned Asa had cheated his father out of oil-rich land many years earlier. Gabrielle, Max's wife, learned that Asa had an affair with Max's mother before Max was born. Learning that Max was not Asa's son, she bribed an old midwife to claim Max WAS Asa's heir in an effort to get the Buchanan fortune. Asa and Max called a reluctant truce from the war when they believed they were father and son. The truth soon came out, and Max and Asa were back to their antagonistic relationship. Asa became intrigued with Llanview newcomer Blair Cramer. This led to many clashes with Renee, whom Asa accused of still being in love with Carlo Hesser. When Carlo was murdered, Asa was considered a suspect. Blair provided Asa with an alibi, infuriating Renee. Blair continued to charm Asa and kissed him, which Renee witnessed. Disgusted, Renee left Asa and the two eventually divorced. Asa proposed to Blair, who held Asa off (as she was taken with Max Holden). Asa promised Blair that, in exchange for marriage, he would get Blair guardianship over her mother Addie and provide care for her. Blair agreed and the two married. Things between the two turned hostile as Blair tried to avoid intimacy with Asa, who wanted a child. He soon found out she slept with Max on their wedding day. Eventually, Blair walked out on Asa and the two divorced. Despite her best attempts to do so, Blair did not get any of Asa's fortune in the divorce. Asa pursued Renee again, but she was not interested in a relationship. Alex Olanov saw a single, rich man in Asa and made a concerted effort to snare him. Using sex as a weapon, Alex managed to break down all of Asa's defenses and got him to marry her. Alex's presumed dead first husband, Carlo Hesser, returned to Llanview very much alive. Alex secured a divorce from Carlo and remarried Asa, but ended up having an affair with Carlo. Asa feigned mental illness in order to find out about the affair. He got confirmation and divorced Alex. Soon after, he exposed Alex's fake pregnancy at her wedding to Carlo. Asa then witnessed Alex murdering Carlo, but kept his mouth shut in an effort to get $30 million Carlo had stolen from him. When his silence was revealed, Asa was thrown in jail for withholding information from the police. His lawyers managed to find a loophole to get him out. Asa and Renee's deep love made itself evident as the two began seeing each other again. Eventually, the two married for the second time. Renee soon revealed a long buried secret-she and Asa had a child together. When they had first met years earlier, during Renee's days as a Madam, the two made love and Renee had given the child up for adoption. A scheming Max and Blair forged documents to make the newlyweds believe that Max was their son. Renee found out the truth, but kept it from Asa. Asa's dislike of the Rappaport-Davidson family began when then daughter-in-law Nora slept with Sam Rappaport in order to get pregnant. When granddaughter Jessica got pregnant by Will Rappaport, Asa's anger with the family-and Sam's adoptive brother Ben Davidson-only increased. He blackmailed Sam and Ben's sister Grace into dumping his grandson Kevin-or Asa would expose her scandalous past. Upset, Grace ran off into a storm and fell into the Llantano river, which resulted in her death. This put Ben and Asa in full blown war. Through a complicated web of briberies and schemes, Asa ended up sending a hit man after Ben Davidson. The hit failed, but Asa and Renee soon realized that Ben was actually their son. The shock sent Asa into the hospital with a heart attack. The existing strains with Renee over his feud with the Rappaport-Davidsons, combined with the fact that Asa discovered Renee lied about Max being their son when she knew he wasn't sent Asa and Renee to divorce court for the second time. Vowing revenge on Max, Asa surprised the entire town when he brought Max's ex-wife and the mother of his child Gabrielle Medina back to town-and married her. Asa even adopted Max's son Al Holden. Gabrielle and Asa planned the ultimate revenge scheme against Max: Gabrielle would begin an affair with Max which would culminate in Asa and Gabrielle faking Asa's death. The two plotted to set things up so it would appear that Max killed Asa. Plans changed when Gabrielle ended up falling in love with Max. Onto her change of heart, Asa went ahead and faked his own death-which left both Max and Gabrielle under suspicion for murder. Eventually Asa resurfaced but was assigned to community service, while divorcing Gabrielle. An angry Al asked Asa to reverse the adoption, which he did. As part of the punishment for faking his own death, Asa was forced to attend court appointed therapy with Rae Cummings, whom Asa greatly disliked. When Rae was exposed as a fraud (she had lied about her identity and medical license), she blackmailed Asa into marriage. During their sessions, Rae had tape-recorded (as she did with all patients) Asa explaining some very illegal practices he had done in business. Rae demanded Asa marry her and pay her legal fees or else she'd go public with the information. Asa was forced to agree, but immediately set about trying to find a way to get rid of her. Asa even teamed up with Max, who was unhappily married to Roxanne Balsom, in an effort to get a divorce from their respective spouses. Around this time Asa was saddened with news that Ben was comatose after being shot. Eventually the endless squabbling got to be too much for Rae, and she divorced Asa. Renee and Asa once more found themselves drawn to each other and married for the third time. Sadly, their reignited love was followed by the death of their son, Ben Davidson. While greatly wounded by Ben's death, Renee and Asa took comfort in the fact that Ben's heart was donated to save the life of daughter-in-law Viki Davidson. Asa's staunch support of Kevin left him in direct combat with Todd and Blair Manning. Todd and Blair discovered that a clerical error left them ownership of Asa's land. The two took over his mansion, but Asa fought back with firearms. Asa got the mansion back, but in a confrontation with Blair he was knocked out with a candlestick. In order to avoid prosecution, Todd and Blair drove Asa to the woods and left him there. Asa got back to Llanview and threatened Todd and Blair with a gun. He later shot Todd. Kevin struck a deal with Todd and Blair: They wouldn't press charges for Asa's assault in exchange for Todd not pressing charges for Asa shooting him. Blair agreed to the deal. Asa was shocked when he learned that Ace, the baby he believed was Kevin and his wife Kelly's, was really the biological son of JR Chandler of Pine Valley who had been stolen by Kelly's brother Paul. Despite this, Asa supported Kevin in his suit to get full custody of Ace from his biological mother and father, whom Kevin and Asa felt unfit. Towards this effort, Asa found himself battling longtime enemy Adam Chandler, Ace's biological grandfather. Despite Asa's efforts, Kevin gave up claim to Ace in support of his biological mother. When Blair was presumed dead, Asa was ecstatic to bid goodbye to his longtime enemy. After seeing the effects Blair's absence had on his family, Asa planned a search in hopes of winning his family's affections. Asa received a lead on Blair's whereabouts and when he found her, he had second thoughts about saving his nemesis. Asa decided to use the opportunity to exact revenge on Blair, and had her locked up in an insane asylum. When Todd confronted Asa and threatened his life, Asa had no choice but to reveal where Blair was being held. Soon after, he fled Llanview to avoid prosecution. Hiding out in Argentina, Asa became homesick for Renee. He arranged for his thugs to kidnap her and bring her to Argentina. However, the kidnapping was witnessed by Asa's great grandson Duke, who managed to sneak on the plane and follow Asa to Argentina. Asa was upset by the glitch in his plans, and would not allow Duke to return to Llanview. In Argentina, Asa met with reunited with arch rival Carlo Hesser. He made a deal with Carlo to go back to Llanview and kill Blair Cramer as a way to repay his $30 million debt. Will his plan be a success or will Carlo double cross him once again?