How to Get Ahead in Genoa City
March 5, 2004
by Brent Kellogg
Jill
Foster began the long process of sleeping her way to the top in 1980. She had managed to
get a job at Jabot and was quickly prompted to head of merchandising when Jabot's founder,
John Abbott recognized her talents. In return, Jill convinced Abbott's womanizing son,
Jack, that he should take more of an interest in the family business by telling him she
liked ambitious, successful men.
Jack joined Jabot and John immediately assigned him to work with Jill on an ad campaign,
but when the old man and Jill began to disagree, he fired her only to rehire her. During
the reinstatement Jill and John sealed the deal with a kiss. Jill was hooked on the geezer
until he refused to take her along with him on a business trip. Rejected, Jill spent the
night with Jack. When John found out he became upset and fled to New York where he ran
Jabot by remote control. Feeling guilty, Jill quit Jabot and dumped Jack.
It seemed like only days had passed before Jill was back after Jack, but by now he had
taken up with a seventeen-year-old girl named Patty Williams. Additionally, Jack couldn't
get over the fact that Jill had told him that she didn't have children, when the reality
was just the opposite, and that she had applied for work at a competing cosmetics company.
By 1982 Andy Richards had asked Jill to marry him. She needed a role model for her son,
but more importantly, needed a man with money. Lucky for her old man Abbott had come back
to roost. Jill told him what a dinkwad Jack was and how he was running Jabot into the
ground. John fell in love with Jill again which enraged Jack who paid Diane Jenkins to
find another woman for his father. When that didn't work Jack told John about Jill's son.
This, of course, angered the old dude, until he found out that Phillip Chancellor was
dead. His dying brain cells rearranged, John asked Jill to marry him.
Jack wouldn't give up. He began searching for his mother, Dina Mergeron, who had walked
out on the family eleven years earlier, hoping that she could break up the lovers. But as
luck would have it, an imposter pretending to be Dina showed up so Jack told her sister
that Jill was trying to get her hands on the Chancellor fortune through a paternity suit.
Ashley Abbott was bored to tears and wanted nothing to do with Jack's scheming as it would
only hurt her father in the end.
John and Jill were married and in 1983 John had his first heart attack. Nearly meeting his
maker made John realize that it was time to sell Jabot. It just so happened that Ashley
had fallen in love with Eric Garrison, the advance man for European Mergeron Corp. Eric
arranged to purchase Jabot and all that was needed was the signature of Mme Mergeron to
personally close the deal. When she finally arrived John nearly had another heart attack.
Mme was really Dina!
A side note: Eric asked Ashley to marry him. She said no when she discovered that Eric had
once been involved with her mother.
Married life was good for Jill until that old maid, Mamie Johnson, rattling around in the
Abbott home began sticking her nose into family affairs. Tired of Jill telling her off,
Johnson packed her bags and moved out. John was mad as hell. He ordered Jill to get the
maid back. Jill was already on edge since she had heard Dina asking John if he were
capable of producing children.
Maybe it was the thought of not having a weapon to use against John should the need arise
that caused Jill to flee. Caught in a blizzard she called Jack to rescue her. They found a
place to stay and as one thing led to another, had sex. Due to the intense humping they
didn't see a man looking in the window taking pictures!
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