mickey4ver
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Well that would explain why "Tony" seems creepy and crazy and not himself. Does anyone know the back story between Tony and Anna? I thought I read somewhere that they couldn't be together because they were related somehow but now Anna is all over him (or Andre, but if he is Tony's cousin then they would still be related, right? )
I think you are thinking of the character of Renee' whom I believe was also the offspring of Stefano, and Renee' & Tony were in love
here is some bio I found on Tony way back when....
Tony DiMera came to Salem in 1981 to get his wife Liz back, and to check on his assets that were being handled by Stuart Whyland. Tony noticed that Stuart Whyland had made a 25,000$ error in the hospital's financial records. After Stuart got into illegal operations he quickly left town and Tony took over his own finances. Later Tony bought the Twilight Bar and made Trish the manager and hired Danny Grant as the bartender. Tony also became infatuated with Renee Dumonde, and began wooing her with gifts.
In 1982 Tony kidnapped Liz Chandler, who was still legally his wife since they never divorced. Tony wanted Doug's place, and with Stefano's help he forced Liz to spy on Doug for him, threatening Neil with harm if she didn't. Stefano and Tony had learned that there were titanium deposits underneath Doug's Place, and they intended on finding them. They found a passage from a secret room in the DiMera mansion (which Stuart Whyland had built) to the basement of Doug's Place, but in the end the entire thing ended up to be a big hoax.
When Liz asked for a divorce from Tony he refused, and eventually beat and raped her. Later Stefano tried to have Neil killed by planting a bomb in his room. Tony continued to pursue a relationship with Renee, even though Lee warned him to stay away from her. Renee was attacked by the strangler again, but this time she saw his faced, but repressed the memory. Fearing the strangler would try for a fourth time Tony DiMera hid Renee in his house.
In 1982 Tony proposed to Renee, who accepted. However, Renee discovered Lee's diary, and not only learned that Lee was really her mother, but that Stefano DiMera was her father, making Tony her half brother. Renee quickly broke things of with Tony, not telling him the real reason in order to spare his feelings. Tony refused to let Renee go, and when she told him the truth he refused to believe they were siblings. Tony blamed Stefano for breaking them up, and when Tony tried to leave town Stefano faked a heart attack. Tony later learned that he and Renee were in fact not related, and he had the blood tests to prove it. However, Renee had moved on and married David Banning. Even though Tony told Renee about the new evidence she refused to leave David.
Around the same time Liz Chandler became pregnant with Neil's child, though Tony believed it was his. Tony would grant Liz her divorce, but only after the baby was born, because wanted the baby. In 1983 Liz gave birth to her baby, and when Tony realized it was Neil Curtis' child he quickly divorced Liz. In his will Stefano said in order to earn their inheritance Tony and Renee had to live under the same roof for one year, and Renee had to stay married to David Banning. Also, the will stated the first couple to have a child would receive an extra five million dollars. Anna soon became pregnant with Tony's child, and jealous Renee tried to kill Anna in a boating accident. Unfortunately Tony was on the boat with Anna when an explosion went off. Tony and Anna were rescued by David, but Anna lost her baby. Later that year Tony learned exactly how Anna got him to marry her, by drugging him. Tony quickly divorced Anna, even though Anna had fallen in love with him by that time.
In 1984 Tony was chained up in his penthouse apartment by his evil look-a-like cousin Andre, who took Tony's place. Tony was eventually rescued by Roman, and after a duel with Andre, Andre managed to slip away. Andre returned to Stefano's island compound were the two planned on acquiring three prisms designed by Larry Welches father. Stefano wanted these prisms to heal an inoperable brain tumor he had. One prism was in the belly of an alligator, another in a necklace owned by Daphne DiMera which fell into Calliope Jones' hands ,and the third in Russia.