The Invader

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***The Invader*** is one of the local media companies in the city of Port Charles. It is located inside the Metro Court on the 7th floor and is currently owned by Shawn Butler through his Cassadine funded non-profit, and previously owned by Peter August after his female counterpart Nelle Benson met with Steven Culp.

## History

In November 2017, a trashy gossip magazine called "*The Invader*" is first mentioned when Nelle Benson meets with the editor of the magazine Steven Culp to talk about "Ask Man Landers". Nelle revealed that she worked at Crimson Magazine and had overheard Nathan West and Amy Driscoll talk about Nathan posing as "Ask Man Landers" while Amy wrote the blog since Nelle's male counterpart Peter August is the founder, owner, and publisher of *The Invader*. Nina also knew about the plan. Steven warned Nelle that this would likely destroy the blog and Crimson but Nelle happily accepted a check from Steven after the crime at the Metro Court Hotel by Frank Anderson and Greg Barnes, leaving Mayor Janice Lomax outraged as well as Franco Baldwin and Nathan West unharmed and before Janice Lomax appeared at Charlie's Pub for the Charles Street redevelopment project before her resignation as Mayor of Port Charles leading to Janice becoming a fan of *The Invader* and Cesar Faison returning to Port Charles leaving the city unprotected without a mayor and Jim Harvey of Niagara Equities coming to Port Charles to follow former Mayor Lomax's idea before the deaths on Nathan West and Cesar Faison triggering the earthquake one month later.

In August 2018, the WSB cleared Peter August of all his charges regarding The Jason Morgan Conspiracy and after being released from the hospital, Peter bought "*The Invader*" with Valentin Cassadine's help. He was determined to reshape the trashy gossip magazine and media company as a news aggregator, so he offered a job to Lulu Spencer as a journalist.

Also in March of 2021; Peter publishes the story of Jason Morgan's arrest for the murder of Franco Baldwin - the murder that Peter committed, and that he is framing Jason with the help of Cyrus Renault enough for Jason to be replaced by Yuri Tamashevich one month later who adopts Danny, Scout, and Jake making Yuri their adoptive father since Yuri is a fan of *The Invader* and didn't have any children of his own after Yuri already replaced Franco after his death since Yuri is a bodyguard and had no skills of being an art therapist and is not an artist as he can't fill Franco's shoes making Yuri also the new Head of Security at ELQ.

On Christmas Day 2021, Shawn Butler tells the Davis girls that he used his new non-profit (funded by the Cassadines) to purchase the sensationalist news source. Now, as a publisher, he wants to change the reputation of the publication after the death of Jason Morgan on Cassadine Island and Yuri's deportation by ICE with the help of Drew Cain after Drew's return to Port Charles.

On January 4, 2022; the first hit piece against Cassadine Industries was published. Shawn informed CI CEO Nikolas Cassadine and Ava Cassadine that the new direction for the publication was to promote or expose issues of social or political relevance. Shawn later met with Nikolas' aunt Alexis Davis, who was delighted in the new direction, and to whom he offered the job of his second in command (Editor-in-chief) at the publication.

On May 17, 2023; Alexis hires Esme Prince as a secretary at The Invader after the nightmare of Victor Cassadine is over resulting Victor's death via drone strike to The Haunted Star by the WSB. After thinking about it, Esme accepts the offer.

On July 19, Alexis catches Esme sneaking through her files - who points out they are about her. Alexis shares that she was approached about writing an article about Heather and Ryan and their reign of terror and was doing research. They argue about families, identities, and shady pasts, with Alexis reminding Esme that she hasn't don't anything to clean her slate - that she has a past even if she doesn't remember it. Esme secretly steals an article, this one specifically stating that Heather has been moved from D'Archam to Pentonville. At the same time, Sasha Gilmore is interviewed by Invader reporter Elyse Taylor, at the pool for "Deception." When she confides to Gladys Corbin about her nerves, her mother-in-law manipulates her into taking more of the pills her therapist prescribed, then Gladys goes to Cody Bell to argue with him. Sasha takes the pills, and then hallucinates that Cody is the evil Cyrus Renault who bores an uncanny resemblance to the late Cesar Faison. She grabs a serrated knife and stabs Cody, thinking she's stopping Cyrus.

In October 19-20, Gregory Chase and Alexis Davis got to meet up with Judge Albert Kim who became friends with Edward Sinclair a week earlier prior to Albert Kim becoming friends with Yuri who later struck a deal with ICE and the SEC to give him a second chance after Drew Cain's imprisonment as a reverse of what Drew has done.