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As the World Turns CAST - Damian Grimaldi
Full detailed profile on Damian Grimaldi Played by Paolo Seganti on As the World Turns Daytime Soap Opera.
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Damian Grimaldi
Actor: Paolo Seganti Who played Damian Grimaldi over the yearsPaolo Seganti (April 1993 - January 1996; May - September 1997; May - June, Aug.-S eptember 2001; May - Aug. 2006) Useful information on Damian Grimaldi* January 1996 - May 1997 - Damian was presumed dead after his jet crashed. |
CURRENT & PAST OCCUPATION
Current: Partner at Kingsley-Malta
Past: Owner of the Falcon Club
DAMIAN GRIMALDI'S HISTORY
Lily Walsh brought her new husband to Oakdale to introduce him. They had met and married while she was in Italy. However, as soon as they were in Oakdale, Holden showed up. Damian could sense that Lily still had feelings for Holden, especially after seeing him. Damian chose not to confront Lily on what he suspected. He took up boxing to relieve some stress. This new obsession with boxing upset Lily and soon drove a wedge between them. She was afraid that Damian would feel fearless and risk their lives. Lily found herself confiding in Holden over her frustration. She also suspected that Damian wasn't being honest in his business deals, and she was right. When Lily was kidnapped and held for ransom, Damian was determined to rescue her. During the struggle, Damian was shot. Fortunately, he survived the gunshot, and Lily stayed devoted to her husband during this frightening ordeal. This brought Lily and Damian closer together, and Lily decided not to give up on their marriage. Lily recommitted herself to be a better wife.
Lily became pregnant with their first son, Luciano (Luke). She soon noticed that Damian wasn't doing the usual business. After witnessing several business dealings, she started thinking that Damian was doing bad business again. She confronted him and told him that she wanted a separation. In desperation to keep his wife and son with him, he kidnapped them, drugged Lily, and then took them to his hometown in Malta. Damian's mother, Orlena conspired with him to keep Lily and Luke captive for Damian. Damian was unaware of Orlena's health problems as she suffered from mild Dementia at times. She managed to keep her family from finding her. During this time, Damian learned that Orlena wasn't really his biological mother. Orlena raised Damian after Orlena drugged his biological mother. Orlena kept his mother drugged so that she wouldn't realize the truth. Before Damian could find out that Orlena had drugged his biological mother for over thirty years, she committed suicide. To make matters worse, Orlena was drugging Lily with the same drugs that she used to drug his mother with. Damian vowed to change for Lily's sake, but before he could prove to Lily that he had changed, Damian was thought to have died in a plane crash.
Several years later, Damian showed up at Lily and Holden's house to take Luke back to Malta for a visit. He wanted to show Luke his heritage. Lily found out that he was still doing bad business and didn't want her son subjected to that. The truth came out when Damian told her that his latest business deal went bad, and now they were coming after Luke. He had to get Luke out of there so, without Lily's permission, he ran away with him. He took Luke to Malta. Lily and Holden went to Malta looking for Luke. Damian had left Luke in a church in Malta until Lily and Holden caught up with him. But before Damian left, he told Luke to never let anyone know that he was a Grimaldi. Damian realized that Luke would be safer with Holden and Lily than with him. He could not provide everything that Luke would need, including safety. Therefore, he let him go, completely.
When Luke was a teenager, Damian paid him a visit. He assured Lily that no one was after him and he just wanted to see his son. At this time, Luke had just announced to his family that he was gay. When Luke saw Damian there, he assumed he was there to try to talk him out of what he was feeling. Damian assured him he was just there to visit with him and to give him a family heirloom. Damian ended up causing more tension in the family when he pretended to side with Luke against Holden. He had Luke enrolled in a camp, and told he and Lily that they had special therapist to help those who were unsure of their sexuality, when actually it was a camp to make them straight. Lily didn't know everything about the camp, but reluctantly let him go. Damian let Luke think that he was helping him. He had the doctor tell Luke that it was Lily's idea that he go there. Luke had an argument with his mother over it and he pushed Lily down a flight of stairs. Lily was pregnant at the time. The fall put her in a coma for a long time. While she was in a coma, Holden and Luke argued. Damian played on Luke's feelings and had Luke move into Fairwinds with him for a while. When Luke started talking about making up with Holden, Damian got desperate. He dropped a bottle of pills at Luke's feet to make Luke believe that something was wrong with him. He told Luke that he was dying, and he wanted Luke to go to Malta with him and see him through to the end. Luke felt torn but obligated to go.
Luke learned the truth about Damian. He wasn't dying, and he also learned that Lily didn't send him to camp, but Damian did. Damian confessed that he wanted Luke's inheritance to pay off someone who was after him. Luke had enough of his father's betrayal. Luke disowned his father, but refused to press charges against him for kidnapping him. He wanted to put the past in the past and protect his real family, the family that loves him unconditionally.
PAST MARRIAGES
Lily Walsh Mason Snyder Grimaldi Snyder (divorced)
FLINGS & RELATIONSHIPS
Renada Minardi (lover)
RELATIVES
Lorenzo Grimaldi (father - deceased)
Orlena Grimaldi (mother - deceased)
Bettina Grimaldi (biological mother)
Dante Grimaldi (half brother)
Eduardo Grimaldi (cousin - deceased)
CHILDREN
Luciano 'Luke' Eduardo Snyder (Son with Lily)
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Wednesday, August 16 2006: Getting Physical
As Jack's arm is bandaged at the airport Luke argues with Damian. Luke remembers that right before Lily fell she said she'd made a terrible mistake, now he knows that mistake was letting Damian get close to him. Luke says that Damian tried to turn him against his family, and that Damian was scared to death that Lily would wake up and tell him the truth. They scream at each other. Luke attacks Damian, calls him a stupid, lying son-of-a-bitch. Holden grabs Luke away, Luke continues to rail at Damian. Dallas shows up says that Luke will have to be the one to press charges Against Damian, Luke says it looks like he's not the only one as he sees Lucy walks in. Lucy confronts Damian, says he left her to die in his wine cellar. Dallas tells the cop with him to cuff Damian and read him his rights, but Luke doesn't want the hassle of pressing charges. If Damian goes back to Malta they can pretend he never existed. He tells Damian he is not his son, not now, not ever. Damian says Luke will always be his son, but Holden faces Damian down and disagrees, says your hold on my son and my family is over.
Luke signs his inheritance over to Damian, give him back the ring Damian gave him, he is no longer a part of him. Holden warns Damian to make this the last time he interferes in his family not to ever come back here again. Lucy, Holden and Luke hug. Lucy starts telling Luke what happened with the explosion at Fair Winds. She says they have Holden to thank for so much. Luke apologizes to Holden. Holden tells him he didn't stop him like he could have, legally, because he wasn't going to try to control him, but that he would have been on a plane following him to Malta. They wish Lily was there with them. On the plane, Damian looks at the ring Luke returned to him and thinks of what Luke said, that he will always be a Snyder, Damian says we'll see about that.
Tuesday, August 15 2006: Luke Finally Sees the Truth
Damian demands Sergio release Luke. Luke breaks free and knocks the gun from Sergio's hand. Sergio runs. Holden gets the gun and holds in on Damian. Luke is angry at Damian, wants the truth; who Sergio is and what's going on. Damian tells him that Sergio works for the syndicate and Damian owes them money. They wanted Luke's inheritance, that's why he was taking Luke to Malta. It dawns on Luke that Damian truly may have been lying about being sick. Damian admits it was a lie.
Jack shows up, He just got a report that there was an explosion at Fair Winds. Luke turns his back on Damian after finding out that he jeopardized Lucy's life. The cops come in with Sergio, dragging him away in handcuffs. Dallas arrives, Jack and Holden want Damian arrested. Damian gets Luke aside, tries to convince him he wouldn't have hurt Lucy and it wasn't just about money, taking him to Malta. They start talking about the fact that Luke is gay and Damian can't accept that. Luke realizes that Damian really was the one who had the deprogrammer hired to try to change him. Luke tells Damian that he is not his father. Luke sees all the truth. He tells Damian because of him his mother might die.
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