Brad Carlton is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Don Diamont.

[4][5] Fellow cast member Eric Braeden, who portrays Victor Newman, spoke out on Diamont's firing, saying: I was very sad about that, to be quite frank with you.

"[10] Diamont briefly reprised the role eight months after the character's death as a hallucination by his daughter, Colleen.

During his second marriage to Traci, Brad was held captive in a cage by his unstable first ex-wife, Lisa Mansfield.

After he divorced Traci, Brad was tricked into marrying the wealthy widow, Cassandra Rawlins, after a ski trip to Aspen.

Known as a "playboy," Brad has also had flings with Lauren Fenmore, Jill Abbott, Diane Jenkins and Olivia Winters.

He stepped on a lot of toes over the years, particularly Victor Newman and his one-time brother-in-law, Jack Abbott.

For the duration of their marriage, Brad continued to fight his feelings for Victoria's one-time sister-in-law, Sharon Newman.

Brad's real name was George Kaplan, and he assumed the identity of a friend who died in an accident in order to hide from the people who had killed his family.

Frustrated and angered at his inability to advance at Newman Enterprises, Brad joined Jabot Cosmetics in May 2008 as Chief Operating Officer.

Following the death of his wife Sabrina Costelana Newman, Victor disappeared to Mexico only to be declared dead by Mexican authorities after an apparent boating accident.

Having schemed, back-stabbed and betrayed to get ahead, it appeared that Brad had finally achieved the executive position that he had coveted for so long.

Shortly after being hired by Adam to be CEO of Newman Enterprises, Victor returned and fired his son.

He left the cabin, and on the road home, he found Noah Newman drowning in a lake after falling through the ice.

He managed to pull Noah out of the water and back onto the ice, but tragically fell in himself and was swept under the frozen lake by the current.

We still hung on his every word — and assumed that the sometime lawn boy's handling of shrubbery had rightly earned him his accolades as one of the world's best… er, gardeners.