What is the past history between Harley Cooper Camaletti and Phillip Spaulding?
When A-M and Harley first got together, it wasn’t really a love match. They decided to get married so that they could get A-M’s trust fund. He couldn’t get the trust fund until either he turned 25 or got married, whichever came first. So they decided to get married. Alexandra and Phillip tried to break them up because they thought Harley was just a fortune hunter. At this point in time, Phillip and Alex had orchestrated a hostile takeover of Spaulding and ousted Alan. Phillip was in the middle of one of his dark, manipulative periods. He was determined that Harley would not get some of the Spaulding fortune. So he pretended to befriend Harley. But slowly he started to realize that there was more to Harley than met the eye. He couldn’t help but like her. I remember one scene where he was telling Harley about Beth. At this point everyone thought that Beth was dead. He told Harley that she kind of reminded him of Beth. Not in looks, and not really in temperment either. But they both had t