The following minor couples are current and former pairings on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. This page features many relationships - some brief and some that spanned years with multiple break-ups and make-ups. While some of these couples gained popularity, none have attained the notoriety of a Supercouple.
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A.J. Quartermaine and Courtney Matthews[]
A.J. Quartermaine and Courtney Matthews were fictional characters and a former married couple from the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.
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Courtney fell for A.J. Quartermaine. Unknown to Courtney, A.J. was using her to get back his son, Michael Corinthos, who had been adopted by Courtney's brother Sonny with Michael's mother, Carly. In time, however, A.J. would realize that he genuinely loved Courtney, as well, and they would get married. Their marriage, however, was met with a lot of hostility from the Port Charles residents and A.J.'s family ended up freezing his accounts, leaving him penniless. Both he and Courtney tried to manage with low-level jobs, him working at the docks and she waiting tables at Kelly's, but A.J. turned to alcohol, which he had been addicted to before, and ended up driving into a strip club and causing major damages. Courtney agreed to work the debt off by stripping at the club to help A.J., but she didn't tell him. Sonny, though, and his main enforcer, Jason Morgan, who was also A.J.'s brother, revealed this to A.J. He ended up hiring the owner to stalk Courtney. When Courtney found out about this, she divorced A.J.
Carlos Rivera and Sabrina Santiago-Rivera[]
Carlos Rivera and Nurse Sabrina Santiago-Rivera were fictional characters and married couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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Sabrina gets the surprise of her life when her ex-boyfriend, Carlos Rivera, shows up, saying he wants her back. Sabrina lets him know she's with Patrick, but when Carlos sees a picture and finds out about Robin, he thinks Patrick will always love Robin more than he loves her. Patrick comes home, and Sabrina lets him know about Carlos and that he wants her back.
Carlos tries to corner Sabrina, and push Patrick away from her. Carlos then insinuates that Patrick isn't over Robin because he still wears his wedding ring. Because of Carlos raising doubts about her engagement, Sabrina eventually convinces Patrick to get married as soon as they can. Carlos finds her one day, and says he saw Patrick's "dead" wife alive and well in the General Hospital lab. Sabrina is outraged at his claim, and discredits what he says.
The wedding ceremony starts, and Patrick & Sabrina say their vows. However, just as they're about to be pronounced man and wife, Emma sees Robin, alive, standing at the back of the church. Sabrina ends up running away, crying, and finds Carlos. She gets drunk that night, and wakes up in Carlos' bed. Carlos, though, tells Sabrina that they didn't have sex. Carlos and Sabrina embrace in a passionate kiss when Patrick shows up at Carlos' apartment and tells Sabrina to stay away from Carlos, while Carlos accuses Patrick of cheating on Robin. Sabrina tells them she can take care of herself, and leaves.
On Christmas Eve, Patrick shows up on Sabrina's doorstep, and tells her he's going to go back to Robin. Patrick apologizes for hurting her, and Sabrina says a heartbreaking goodbye to him. Soon after, Carlos shows up with a gunshot wound. Sabrina finds out Carlos works for the mob, and he was shot by Sonny Corinthos, the local mob boss. Sabrina stitches him up and lets him stay at her place when he begs her not to call the cops because he's afraid of getting killed by Sonny.
Sabrina's son Teddy Rivera was thought to be fathered by Michael Corinthos during pregnancy when Carlos was revealed as his father.
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Coleman Ratcliffe and Connie Falconeri[]
Coleman Ratcliffe and Connie Falconeri are fictional characters and former lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Coleman was portrayed by Blake Gibbons and Connie was portrayed most notably by Megan Ward, with Kelly Sullivan in between.
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Cooper Barrett and Maxie Jones[]
Cadet Cooper Barrett and Maxie Jones are fictional characters and former lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Storylines[]
In February of 2007, a man (later to be revealed as Jerry Jacks) held the Metro Court Hotel hostage while he and his team of masked gunmen tried to retrieve a briefcase from the hotel vault. The gunman called Number Three, later revealed as Coop, had taken a hostage, Maxie Jones, into the vault for the briefcase, thus being stuck in there together for the twelve hours. While in the vault, Maxie and Three talked and bonded. They got to know each other and started to care for one another. At one point, Maxie removed Three's mask, and when the vault was finally opened, Maxie helped him escape.
Maxie encouraged Coop to stay in Port Charles and put in a good word for him with the Metro Court Hotel owner Jasper Jacks for him to get a job as a hotel security guard. In late 2007 and early 2008, a serial killer, known as the Text Message Killer, terrorized Port Charles. Maxie's sister Georgie Jones became suspicious that the killer might be Coop.
When Georgie herself was murdered--strangled to death, in the police investigation of her murder, they found DNA from Coop's skin underneath Georgie's fingernails. The police were closing in on Coop, so he stole the DNA results from the PCPD and asked Maxie to leave town with him, which she agreed to. When Maxie got to Coop's room at Kelly's though, she found him hanged to death.
The PCPD ruled it a suicide, but Maxie wasn't convinced. She did not believe Coop killed himself, nor Georgie. The true identity of the Text Message Killer was later revealed to be Diego Alcazar, who had killed Coop as well because he thought he was getting close to figuring out his identity.
Dillon Quartermaine and Lulu Spencer[]
Dillon Quartermaine and Lulu Spencer are fictional characters and former adulterous lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Storylines[]
Lulu and Dillon were step siblings and Lulu developed a crush on Dillon, who at the time was dating Georgie Jones. Lulu and Diego come up with an idea to break up Dillon and Georgie and take them for themselves. Lulu lied to Dillon about seeing Diego and Georgie together. Dillon confronted Georgie and didn't believe her when she said Lulu was lying. Dillon turned to Lulu and slept with her. Georgie turned to her friend Diego for support. Dillon and Georgie were still in love with each other, but were too hurt to admit it. So, Dillon continued to sleep with Lulu, and Georgie continued to date Diego. They soon divorced. Dillon then overheard Lulu saying that she had lied about Georgie sleeping with Diego and Dillon went to Georgie, wanting her back. She took him back, and they started dating again.
Soon after, Lulu found out she was pregnant with Dillon's child and he and Georgie broke up again. Dillon wanted her to have the baby and even agreed to raise him or her, but Lulu ended up having an abortion. She felt she would not be a good mother and that it was too complicated since she and Dillon were step-siblings. Dillon was devastated at losing his child. Dillon and Lulu became friends again, and he wanted to start dating her again, but he had competition. Damian Spinelli and Milo Giambetti both wanted her, and then Logan Hayes joined in as well. Dillon's brother Ned came back to Port Charles and told him that he had a job opportunity for him in Los Angeles as a director's assistant. Dillon was excited about the job, but was hesitant to take it because he didn't want to leave Lulu. Lulu, however, told him that she was dating Logan and that she wouldn't chose to be with him. So, Dillon decided to go to LA in 2007.
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Drew Quartermaine and Kim Nero[]
Chief Drew Quartermaine and Dr. Kim Nero are fictional characters and former lovers on the ABC daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Kim's son Oscar Nero-Quartermaine was discovered to be Drew's child thanks to a DNA test in 2017.
Griffin Munro and Claudette Beaulieu[]
Dr. Griffin Munro and Claudette Beaulieu are fictional characters and former adulterous lovers on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
In 2016, Griffin and Claudette's estranged husband Nathan West were both thought to be the father of Claudette's "daughter" Charlotte. It is soon revealed that none of them are Charlotte's parents - Valentin Cassadine and Lulu Spencer are via in-vitro fertilization from an elaborate plot by the villainess Helena Cassadine.
Storylines[]
On June 6-7, 2016, Nathan revealed that he had shot his wife Claudette's lover in a drunken rage. Later revealed to the audience to be Dr. Griffin Munro. On August 3-4, Claudette and Griffin unexpectedly reunited with each other at GH. It was also revealed that Claudette was and is still in love with Griffin and he is in love with her.
In September 2016, it was revealed that Claudette has a daughter named Charlotte, who was born in 2006. Due to Claudette's lies, both Det. Nathan West and Dr. Griffin Munro were formerly thought to be Charlotte's father. DNA tests proved that neither Nathan nor Griffin could be Charlotte's father.
Jason Morgan and Brenda Barrett[]
Jason Morgan and Brenda Barrett are fictional characters and a former married couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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Jasper Jacks and Courtney Matthews[]
Jasper Jacks and Courtney Matthews are fictional characters and a former married couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Storylines[]
Jax begins to flirt with Sonny's sister Courtney, and the two make a $10 million dollar bet that she won't be able to resist his sexual advances. Courtney wins the bet, but the two make love and fall in love. They marry in June 2005. Courtney and Jax marry but learn that Courtney cannot conceive a child. They decide to use Elizabeth Spencer as a surrogate, though Courtney regrets this as Jax begins neglecting her in favor of Elizabeth and their child. Courtney, in turn, begins a friendship with Nikolas Cassadine that blossoms into love. Courtney sleeps with Nikolas, and becomes pregnant, though Jax changes the paternity test to say that he is the father. Courtney gives birth to a son but dies shortly afterward.
Courtney's son Spencer Cassadine was thought to be fathered by Jasper Jacks and raised by him as a newborn thanks to paternity test tampering. The truth is discovered in June 2006, that Nikolas Cassadine is the father.
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Jesse Beaudry and Maxie Jones[]
Det. Jesse Beaudry and Maxie Jones are fictional characters and former lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Storylines[]
In June of 2005 Jesse was being chased by cops in the hospital and to get away he went into Maxie Jones's hospital room. He was wanted for shooting John Durant but really a cop named Byron Murphy shot John and he framed Jesse. When Maxie opened her eyes she said the famous words "I must have died and gone to heaven".
Maxie was in the hospital because of her heart. He told her about being wanted and that he was innocent and she believed him. The next few days he came and visited her in the hospital (in disguise of course). Then one day when he was visiting Maxie the cops found him in her room and chased him through the hospital. They didn't catch him but they did shoot him in his arm. Later Maxie agreed to let him stay in the attic of her house.
Jesse decided to go and run away from Port Charles. He was driving and realized Maxie had hid in the car and she said she was going to go with him. They arrived at what they believed was an abandoned cabin. Then the owner, Jana showed up and she let them stay there if they would work for her. Maxie and Jesse posed as newlyweds while they were there. Murphy (the bad cop) learned that they were there. While they were out working for Jana, Murphy rigged their light bulb with flammable liquid. Their cabin exploded and it killed Jana in the process. Jesse and Maxie were okay and they decided it was time to return to Port Charles.
They returned to Port Charles and Jesse went to the police and told them about Murphy. Maxie was right there with him. Mac Scorpio, the Police Commissioner and Maxie's dad didn't believe Jesse and neither did any of the police officers. Finally they convinced everyone that Jesse was innocent. Mac still didn't like Jesse because he involved Maxie in the mess. Jesse got back his rights to be an officer. He was partnered with Lucky Spencer.
Over the next few weeks Jesse tried to push Maxie away. After realizing that he couldn't fight his feelings for her he stopped pushing her away and let her in. They fell in love. He was her first love and she was his first love. Their love for each other was undeniable and their connection was strong.
Jesse and Maxie were at a carnival and Lucky asked Jesse if he could check the carnival out with him because there was supposed to be a shooting. Jesse said he would so he talked to Maxie and kissed her and went with Lucky. One of the clowns there was actually there to kill Diego Alcazar. Jesse and Lucky went into cop mode and started shooting at the clown. Jesse and Lucky got caught in the line of fire and they ducked.
Jesse got shot in the head though. Maxie starting screaming and Emily Quartermaine and Elizabeth Webber two nurses tried to help while the ambulance was on its way. When they got to the hospital Patrick Drake performed surgery but it didn't work. Jesse was brain-dead. Maxie was devastated and so was Lucky.
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Johnny Zacchara and Maxie Jones[]
Johnny Zacchara and Maxie Jones are fictional characters and former potential lovers from the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.
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In 2008, upon learning of his father's role in the second shooting of Kate Howard and his sister's marriage of convenience to Sonny, Johnny decides to sever all ties to his family business. He moves in with new roommates Lulu and Maxie, and begins to search for a job. With no further education since high school and his known association with the mafia, Johnny finds no one willing to hire him, and during his job search he is arrested. Johnny's frustration over finances and guilt over his role in Michael's coma lead him to contemplate ending his relationship with Lulu. He also considers having sex with Maxie, when they are snowed in at his garage, to make sure the split is permanent, but the two are unable to go through with it. Eventually, after accompanying Maxie to an event representing Crimson, he takes Kate's offer of $1,000 per event as Maxie's official Crimson escort.
Maxie and Johnny miss another date to a club opening for Crimson to help Claudia get Ric's stomach pumped after she drugged him. Due to this, Lulu got a call stating Maxie and Johnny never arrived, prompting Spinelli and Lulu to become suspicious. Spinelli confronts Johnny about the incident, stating he will fight for Maxie. Maxie called Johnny who told Maxie to make sure Lulu doesn't know what happened. Johnny confessed to Lulu that he and Maxie had almost had sex during the blizzard. He tells her that he wants to be free to be who he is and that he doesn't want to have to apologize for everything that he does. He and Maxie later meet at the dock where he begins his next move of self-destruction, telling her he wants to burn down his life and does not care, now that Lulu is out of it. He tells her that he wants her. Spinelli later catches Maxie and Johnny engaged in a kiss. He tells them to stop and shames them. Johnny explains that he broke up with Lulu and he told her what is going on with him and Maxie. Spinelli punches Johnny and Maxie stops them from fighting. Johnny leaves to give Maxie and Spinelli time to talk.
Barash and Storms were married in real life from 2013-16, and share a daughter, Harper Rose Barash (born 2014).
Kiefer Bauer and Kristina Corinthos-Davis[]
Kiefer Bauer and Kristina Corinthos-Davis are fictional characters and former lovers on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
This relationship was rife with abuse - please see the following link for details: Kristina's Abuse
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Kyle Ratcliffe and Maxie Jones[]
Kyle Ratcliffe and Maxie Jones are fictional characters and former lovers on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
This relationship pushed Maxie into drugs thanks to Kyle's addiction, as well as found herself the "star" of "Maximum Maxie" website a secret webcam he set up.
Logan Hayes and Lulu Spencer[]
Logan Hayes and Lulu Spencer are fictional characters and former estranged lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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Logan arrived in town to visit his old army buddy, Cooper Barrett. He started a flirtation with Lulu Spencer and Cooper's girlfriend Maxie Jones. After some investigation, Lulu came to suspect that Logan was the son of Scott Baldwin. In September, Logan and Scott agreed to a DNA test, which confirmed that Scott and Logan were indeed father and son. Since then, Scott and Logan started to improve their relationship.d
Logan and Lulu dated until she broke things off with him in favor of Johnny Zacchara. Logan started to stalk Lulu, determined to win her back. On July 8, 2008, Lulu witnessed Logan attack Maxie Jones, who he blamed for his and Lulu's breakup. When Logan tried to explain to Lulu, he became violent and was killed when she stabbed him in self-defense, which Maxie, Johnny Zacchara and Claudia Zacchara (unwittingly) helped cover up.
When Scott discovers that Lulu was the one who killed Logan, he starts terrorizing her, sending her anonymous letters while she is in Shadybrook. He eventually goes to confront Lulu and threatens her with lethal injection when Lulu's mother, and Scott's childhood love Laura Spencer wakes up from a catatonic state to defend her daughter.
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Lorenzo Alcazar and Lois Cerullo[]
Lorenzo Alcazar and Lois Cerullo are fictional characters and former lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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Lois began dating mobster Lorenzo Alcazar.
Brook Lynn was upset at her mother's decision to date Lorenzo, but nevertheless decided to start a girl band at her mother's request. Brook Lynn, Sage Alcazar, Georgie Jones, and Maxie Jones were going to fake an audition for the band, but when Maxie was nowhere to be found, Ned's brother Dillon Quartermaine was forced to dress in drag and pose as a woman. The situation got even more out of control when Simon, the record producer started hitting on Dillon, thinking that he was a woman.
However, their plan to start a band failed, and when Sage was murdered by Mary Bishop, plans for a girl band were dropped completely. Lois continued to date Lorenzo, but their relationship started to fail, when Lorenzo's feelings for his ex-wife Carly Spencer started to return. Lois ended her relationship with Lorenzo and started to reconcile with Ned.
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Lucky Spencer and Maxie Jones[]
Lucky Spencer and Maxie Jones are fictional characters and a former adulterous couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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In 2006, Lucky becomes addicted to painkillers, and begins an affair with Maxie, his pill supplier. Elizabeth discovers Lucky's infidelity when she walks in on him having sex with Maxie. Initially staying and wanting to help Lucky get sober, Elizabeth finally leaves when she realizes Lucky is still addicted. Meanwhile, Maxie, angry that Lucky rejected her after Elizabeth left, tells her father, Commissioner Mac Scorpio, Lucky's boss, about his addiction. Mac beats Lucky up, and fires him.
Lucky and Elizabeth divorce, though Lucky tries to make amends with her as he goes through rehab. Maxie, meanwhile, is still hung up on Lucky, and convinces him that she's pregnant, as well. Though Lucky agrees to help with the baby, he tells Maxie that he's committed to Elizabeth. Lucky completes rehab, and is reinstated. Soon after, though, he is caught with pills in his desk, and nobody believes Lucky when he insists he was framed. Believing Maxie is responsible, Lucky confronts her, but she denies responsibility. Lucky doesn't believe her, and storms off, and Maxie follows. The ensuing argument leads to Maxie taking a fall and suffering a miscarriage. Lucky feels responsible, and tries to console Maxie, while reconciling with Elizabeth. Elizabeth later figures out that Maxie faked being pregnant. With the truth being outed, Maxie admits to Lucky that she faked being pregnant, and purposely fell down to fake a miscarriage. Outraged, Lucky pushes Maxie away, and focuses on Elizabeth.
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Lucky Spencer and Sam McCall[]
Lucky Spencer and Sam McCall are fictional characters and former lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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Sam hires Lucky as a bodyguard and Lucky realizes she's trying to seduce him to get revenge on Jason and Elizabeth. Lucky lets himself be seduced, though, and he and Sam eventually start a relationship after Lucky and Elizabeth divorce. Elizabeth shows her disapproval of Lucky dating Sam. Lucky asks her why, and she reveals how Sam saw Jake get kidnapped, and didn't say anything. She also reveals that Sam hired two gunmen to scare Elizabeth and her boys. Lucky confronts Sam, and breaks up with her, kicking her out. He later gets a call that Sam was admitted to the hospital after being hit by a car. Lucky felt guilty, because Sam had called him before the accident, and said that she was being stalked by the Text Message Killer, but he didn't believe her, and hung up. She became vulnerable to TMK, and got hit by a car while trying to escape. He stayed by her side when she woke up, apologizing for not believing her. He soon found out that Elizabeth believed she was the driver who had hit Sam. He tried to protect Elizabeth, and cover up the evidence. Fortunately, Elizabeth was proven innocent in the hit-and-run. Lucky decided to reconcile with Sam, and the two resumed a relationship.
Lucky is upset when Sam decides to become a private investigator, and investigates a drug smuggling ring with mobster Andrei Karpov and Jerry Jacks. She nearly gets killed, but Lucky later has to protect her when Karpov is killed, and his gang retaliates by going after Jason, Sonny, and all their family. Elizabeth and Sam leave town with Cameron and Jake, and hide out, while Lucky helps Jason. By the time they reached Elizabeth and Sam, Jake had been kidnapped. Fortunately, he was rescued, and brought home to Lucky and Elizabeth.
In early 2009, Elizabeth is poisoned by an airborne biotoxin while assisting in surgery. Lucky stays by her bedside and promises to be there for her boys if she does not make it. Sam sees the depth of Lucky's feelings for Elizabeth, and the two break up amicably.
Marcus Taggert and Portia Robinson[]
Lt. Marcus Taggert and Dr. Portia Robinson are fictional characters and former married couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Portia's daughter Trina Robinson was thought to be fathered by Marcus Taggert until 2023, when Curtis Ashford was revealed as her father from a paternity test.
Nathan West and Claudette Beaulieu[]
Det. Nathan West and Claudette Beaulieu are fictional characters and a former married couple on the ABC soap opera General Hospital.
In 2016, Nathan and Claudette's ex-affair Griffin Munro were both thought to be the father of Claudette's "daughter" Charlotte. It is soon revealed that none of them are Charlotte's parents - Valentin Cassadine and Lulu Spencer are via in-vitro fertilization from an elaborate plot by the villainess Helena Cassadine.
Storylines[]
On February 26-29, 2016, while on pain meds after being shot, Maxie tells Nathan that she loves him and he replies by saying "I love you too, Claudette." When Maxie asked about Claudette, Nathan lied and told her that she was his French poodle and then his ex-girlfriend. On March 14, 2016, Nathan revealed to Dante that Claudette was his wife. On April 4, he told Maxie that she was his ex-wife, it was a marriage of convenience and that they had it annulled.
He later revealed to his mother, Liesl Obrecht that he told Maxie about Claudette but didn't tell her everything. On April 28, Obrecht revealed that if Nathan told Maxie the truth about what happened with Claudette, then Maxie would tell Lulu and if Lulu told Dante, then Nathan would end up in Pentonville Penitentiary.
On June 6-7, 2016, Nathan revealed that he had shot Claudette's lover in a drunken rage. Later revealed to the audience to be Dr. Griffin Munro. Claudette arrived in town on July 5, 2016.
After Claudette fled the country, it was revealed that Valentin is actually Charlotte's father. Claudette is last seen on a plane headed back to Canada when Valentin appears and takes the seat next to her stating that she took something that belongs to him. It is most likely Valentin had Claudette killed. On December 8, 2016, it was revealed that Claudette has no biological claim to Charlotte as she was just the surrogate.
On December 29, it was revealed that Claudette never signed or had the divorce papers filed therefore she and Nathan were still married, Nathan believed that she wanted to use their marriage to protect Charlotte, but Maxie believed otherwise and reminds him that Claudette is a pathological liar. On January 4, 2017, Valentin deleted his contact of Claudette hinting that he may have taken care of her.
On January 11, Valentin secretly had his connections in the Canadian authorities report to Nathan and Maxie who had come to Canada to find her, that Claudette had committed suicide a month ago, ending the search for her. With her death, Nathan and Maxie were finally able to get married on January 17.
On October 27, Cassandra Pierce, a powerful drug lord who was blackmailing Valentin, revealed a picture of Claudette holding a newspaper with the current date, hinting that Claudette might still be alive.
On September 19, 2019, Cassandra revealed to Valentin that they both know Claudette is indeed alive and she said that she has her. It was also revealed that Valentin had Claudette freed when Cassandra had fallen into a coma. Unknowingly Nathan's marriage to Maxie had been invalid until his death in 2018 as Claudette was still alive.
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Nikolas Cassadine and Courtney Matthews[]
Prince Nikolas Cassadine and Courtney Matthews are fictional characters and a formerly engaged couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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Courtney's marriage to Jax became strained, and she found a shoulder to lean on with Nikolas Cassadine, who was having troubles with his wife, Emily. Nikolas and Courtney helped each other out as friends, but it turned into an adulterous affair. Jax and Emily found out about their affair, and filed for divorce. Courtney continued to see Nikolas, falling in love with him and finding happiness in life again. To her surprise and joy, Courtney found out she was pregnant. However, she was not sure if Jax or Nikolas was the father. A DNA test said that Jax was the father, and though they were disappointed, Nikolas and Courtney were determined to fight to make sure the child stayed with them. When they found out that the test might have been tampered with, though, they had a second DNA test run at a separate lab. This test, though, also said that Jax was the father. Courtney and Nikolas still decided they would fight to keep the child with them once it was born.
Nikolas's evil grandmother, Helena Cassadine, came to town when she found out that Nikolas was possibly going to be a father. She intended to take her great-grandson and raise him as the Cassadine heir. Courtney decided to leave town after mistaking a close moment between Nikolas and Emily. Helena, however, intercepted and kidnapped her. Courtney managed to escape and subsequently went into hiding. She returned in February 2006 when the deadly encephalitis virus was going around Port Charles. She was admitted to the hospital when she contracted the virus. There, she reunited with Nikolas, who also contracted the virus, and they got engaged. Courtney's symptoms grew worse, and she went into premature labor as a result. The doctors said the baby was at risk, so she decided to have a C-section to save her child.
Courtney gave birth to a boy on February 20, 2006, though he was born severely premature. Jax and Nikolas were both at the hospital, trying to help Courtney. After giving birth, Courtney told Jax she wanted to name the child John after Jax's father. Jax finally confessed the truth to Courtney: Nikolas was the baby's biological father. He had both tests changed to make it look like he was the father so that the baby and Courtney would be safe from Helena. Courtney was upset, but forgave him and demanded to see Nikolas. However, by the time he got there, Courtney was too weak from the virus and giving birth. With her last breath, she told Nikolas that she loved him.
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Nikolas Cassadine and Rebecca Shaw[]
Prince Nikolas Cassadine and Rebecca Shaw are fictional characters and former lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Ric Lansing and Alexis Davis[]
Ric Lansing and Alexis Davis are fictional characters and a former married couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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Ric Lansing and Claudia Zacchara[]
Ric Lansing and Claudia Zacchara are fictional characters and former adulterous lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Claudia's miscarried son Baby Boy Zacchara-Corinthos was thought to be fathered by Ric during pregnancy, when his brother Sonny Corinthos was revealed to be the father.
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Ric Lansing and Faith Flynn[]
Ric Lansing and Faith Flynn are fictional characters and former estranged lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Sonny Corinthos and Emily Quartermaine[]
Sonny Corinthos and Dr. Emily Quartermaine are fictional characters and former lovers from the soap opera General Hospital.
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Sonny Corinthos and Sam McCall[]
Sonny Corinthos and Sam McCall are fictional characters and former adulterous lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Trevor Lansing and Connie Falconeri[]
Trevor Lansing and Connie Falconeri were fictional characters and former lovers from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
Zander Smith and Elizabeth Webber[]
Zander Smith and Nurse Elizabeth Webber are fictional characters and a former fling from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.