Lorenzo Alcazar

Lorenzo Alcazar originally came to Port Charles in 2003, looking for revenge after his twin brother Luis was murdered. He quickly grew some roots in the city, heading the Alcazar mob family and making money through the means of illegal arms dealing. He later fathered Lila Rae Alcazar after, though their time together was cut short as more and more Port Charles residents wanted him dead. Among the many was Skye Quartermaine, the mother of his child. 
He has been presumed dead since 2007, and only recently returned to Port Charles in the summer of 2019 to keep an eye on his daughter's movements. Although he intends to stay in the shadows while in the city, Lorenzo is determined to keep his daughter safe, no matter the cost. 
== Faking His Death ==
While Lorenzo was thought to have been murdered in 2007 by Jason Morgan at the request of his sister Skye Quartermaine, Lorenzo had been one step ahead. Concluding that his murder was likely underway, Lorenzo contacted a man named David Hayward, a doctor who lived in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. In the crime world, Hayward's reputation for being able to bring the dead back to life was beginning to make its rounds. Little more than a week before the attack on his life, Lorenzo paid David Hayward handsomely to ensure that his death would not be permanent. 
After being shot by Jason, Lorenzo was dead within a matter of minutes, but this didn't last long. Within hours of his death, Hayward's stem cell experiments, named Project Orpheus, succeeded in reviving him. While he managed to recover rapidly, Lorenzo had no choice but to leave Port Charles behind despite having an infant daughter. Realizing that Lila Rae would be safer without him instilling danger in her life, Lorenzo fled to Tijuana with nothing but his life and some of his closest associates.
== Life After Port Charles ==
Once he settled into Mexico under a fake alias, Lorenzo not only rebuilt his life, but he began to recover the business he left behind in Port Charles. Steadily, Lorenzo began controlling the flow of arms and drug dealing between the Mexican and United States border. His territory quickly expanded, and within a few years he had a massive expanse of territory and power in both countries — bigger than he could have ever had in Port Charles.
A wealthy and powerful man again, Lorenzo soon took nothing for granted. He sent a handful of men to watch over his daughter Lila Rae, as Skye took her to London, England for a fresh start with Rae Cummings, Lila Rae's grandmother. As she grew older, Lorenzo sought out more information in order to have some semblance of knowledge about his daughter. Despite wanting nothing more than to build a relationship with her, he's chosen to remain as an outsider in the life of his only living child, for her own sake.
== A Reason to Return ==
Lorenzo kept up that life for over twenty years, right until the very moment he was told that his daughter was going back to the place he hated most: Port Charles. Lorenzo followed her with a small party of trusted men (including Roman Shaw who was ordered to follow and protect Lila Rae), refusing to let what happened to his son Diego to happen to his daughter. During the middle of August, 2019, Lorenzo took up temporary residence in a motel on the outskirts of Port Charles in the event that he would need to intervene in his daughter's choices. In the meantime, he left his daughter's protection in the capable hands of his right hand man, who he keeps in close contact with. During a meeting in late August that took place in a dive bar just outside of Port Charles, Roman filled Lorenzo in on a few key points of Lila Rae's visit. They discussed her reason for being in the city, the Quartermaines, Sonny Corthinthos, Jason Morgan, and Lorena Ramsey. 
Roman filled Lorenzo in that Lila Rae is looking for answers regarding him and the circumstances surrounding his death. While Lorenzo is touched by her interest in him, he remains hopeful that his daughter won't discover the truth, and will soon return home to her mother in England. 
== Personality ==
Lorenzo is a calm but calculating man, with an intelligence that is often deeply underestimated. Although manipulative, power hungry, and often selfish, Lorenzo has a softer side that few are privy to. Family means everything to him, which has led him to sacrifice much for them over the years. Losing them has deeply affected Lorenzo, and it was through those losses that he decided to keep his distance from his daughter Lila Rae, who he loves above all else. 
Outside of family, Lorenzo also opened his heart to two women: Carly Corinthos, and Skye Quartermaine. He loved both women fiercely, to the point of selfishness. Lorenzo will go above and beyond for those he loves, whether they want him to or not. 
== Important Relationships ==
* Lila Rae Alcazar: His daughter. He has watched her grow up from afar for nearly her whole life, learning things about her second hand through the men he sent to London. 
* Roman Shaw: He works for Lorenzo and is one of his most trusted men. He was in on the plot to keep Lorenzo alive after Jason and Skye plotted to kill him. 
* Skye Quartermaine: The mother of his daughter. Lorenzo knows it was Skye who sent the order for his death, but he has long forgiven her. 
* Carly Corinthos: One of the few women he's opened his heart up to. Their relationship started out by manipulation, but by the end of it, Lorenzo was deeply in love with Carly. 
== Crimes Committed ==
Below is an abridged version of Lorenzo's misdeeds: 
* Drug trafficking in Port Charles [2003–2004]
* Kidnapped Sonny Corinthos and beat him [2003] 
* Kidnapped Carly Corinthos to use her as a bargaining chip with Sonny Corinthos [2003]
* Bribed Scott Baldwin into dropping the charges against him [2003]
* Kidnapped Courtney Matthews [2003]
* Hired someone to impersonate Sonny's late wife, Lily Corinthos [2003]
* Covered up Courtney Matthew's involvement in Elizabeth Webber's hit-and-run [2003] 
* Ordered a hit on Stefan Cassadine [2003]
* Ordered his men to rob patrons of the Haunted Star [2003]
* Killed Mary Bishop [2004] 
* Paid Manny Ruiz to target Sonny Corinthos [2005–2006] 
* Attempted to assault Manny Ruiz [2005] 
* Hired Damian Spinelli to falsify evidence [2006] 
* Kidnapped Damian Spinelli and Lulu Spencer, and ordered their murders [2006] 
* Attempted to murder Sonny Corinthos [2007]
* Set up international arms deal that led to the Metro Court hostage crisis [2007] 
* Weapons and drug trafficking across the US-Mexico Border [2008–] 
== Health and Vitals ==
* Lost consciousness while being strangled by Stefan Cassadine; was revived by Carly Corinthos [2003]
* Shot in the back by Sonny Corinthos [2003] 
* Assaulted by Sonny Corinthos [2003] 
* Kidnapped and held captive by Jason Morgan [2004] 
* Rendered temporarily blind by an explosion [2004] 
* Assaulted by Jason Morgan [2004] 
* Held at gunpoint by Carly Corinthos [2005] 
* Shot in the head by Sonny Corinthos [2007]
* Shot and killed by Jason Morgan at Skye Quartermaine's request; revived by David Hayward through Project Orpheus [2007] 
== Trivia ==
* Before involving himself in organized crime, Lorenzo was a history professor at Oxford University.
* Lorenzo is bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish fluently. 
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