Portrayed by:
Dillon, Vincent, and Avalon Ragone (February 21, 1997 - April 1998)
James Scott (May 30, 2006 - Present)
Other Names Used:
John Black Jr. (birth name)
Elvis Aaron Banks
EJ Wells (name used when he returned to Salem as an adult)
Elvis Junior DiMera
Junior (Bo's name for him)
Address:
110 Guilford Street, Apt. 36, Salem
Occupations:
Racecar Driver (past)
CEO of Mythic Communications
Parents:
Susan Banks (mother)
Stefano DiMera (father)
Other Relatives:
Santo DiMera (grandfather, deceased)
Renee DuMonde (paternal half-sister, deceased)
Megan Hathaway (paternal half-sister, deceased)
Dr. Alexandra “Lexie” Carver (paternal half-sister)
Benjy Hawk (paternal half-brother, deceased)
Andre DiMera (paternal cousin, deceased)
Sister Mary Moira Banks (maternal aunt)
Penelope Kent (maternal aunt, deceased)
Thomas Banks (maternal uncle)
Theo Carver (paternal half-nephew)
Unnamed Hawk (paternal half-nephew, via Benji)
Relationships:
Kate Roberts (brief affair)
Samantha “Sami” Brady DiMera (dated, raped, now married)
Billie Reed (brief flirtation)
Unnamed woman in Mexico (brief fling, while on the run for shooting John Black)
Crimes Committed:
Killed Officer Eve Michaels
Swapped Philip and Shawn’s sperm samples at the lab
Tampered with Max Brady’s racecar, which resulted in an explosion
Exposed Steve and Kayla Johnson to poisonous gas
Shot John Black, leaving him comatose for five months
Forced Sami Brady to succumb to his sexual advances
Beat up Patrick Lockhart
Tortured and Brainwashed Steve Johnson
Forced Steve to take a comatose John from the hospital and take his kidney
Violated numerous SEC Mythic Communication codes
Ran Kayla off the road
Bugged Bo and Hope’s house
Chloroformed Sami Brady Roberts
Locked Lucas Roberts in a freezer truck
Character Description
EJ DiMera is perhaps one of the most dramatically aged characters in the history of DAYS. Born in 1997 to Susan Banks and Stefano DiMera, he returned to Salem as a twenty-something adult in 2006. At the time of his birth, Susan was hired by Stefano to impersonate Kristen DiMera, Stefano’s adoptive daughter who miscarried John Black's baby. Susan initially believed that Elvis Presley was her baby’s father, but the truth eventually came out that Stefano was the one who fathered her baby via artificial insemination. Kristen’s misdeeds were eventually exposed, and Susan fell in love with Edward Crumb and returned to England with little Elvis. EJ was partly brought up by Susan, but Stefano also had a significant involvement in his upbringing at Maison Blanche. During much of EJ’s childhood, Stefano enrolled him in English boarding schools, took him to operas, and molded him into the DiMera way of life.
EJ returned to Salem in 2006 and was introduced as EJ Wells, a racecar driver. He moved across the hall from Sami Brady, who was involved with Austin Reed at the time. EJ and Sami became instant friends. Unbeknownst to all of Salem, EJ was Stefano DiMera’s son sent to Salem to do his father’s bidding. Most importantly, Stefano made it clear that EJ’s sole purpose in Salem was to plant his DiMera seed into the Brady woman of his choice.
EJ appeared as an all-around nice guy, but he was the evil mastermind behind all the “gloved hand” crimes with the help of his accomplice Patrick Lockhart. Right before Sami’s wedding to Austin, she began receiving blackmail notes from the gloved hand. She confided in EJ and confessed to blackmailing Dr. Lexie Carver. She called off her wedding to Austin when the gloved hand threatened to expose her dirty deeds.
Meanwhile, Kate Roberts became business partners and lovers with EJ and convinced him to try and lure Sami away from Lucas, who realized he was still in love with Sami. EJ asked Sami out on a date, which she accepted. Lucas and his son Will engaged in childhood pranks in order to ruin Sami’s date.
Sami accepted a job working for EJ at Mythic. During a business trip to Talladega, she was horrified to overhear EJ on the phone mention Stefano’s name. She soon realized that EJ was indeed a DiMera and feared for her life. At the same time, John and Marlena flew to Italy to visit an ill Stefano in the hospital. They too, realized that EJ was Stefano’s son when they noticed a picture of Susan, Stefano, and little Elvis on his bed table. John relayed the news to the Salem P.D., but they were unsuccessful in linking EJ to the death of Officer Eve Michaels.
Bo asked a reluctant Sami to help out in nailing EJ, who had also hired Shawn Brady to be a courier delivering messages between himself and Patrick Lockhart. She kissed him at his place in order to convince him of her sincerity, but he came back over to her apartment and nearly raped her. Luckily, Lucas saved her. Lucas and Sami became romantically involved again soon after the incident.
Sami lured EJ to a warehouse one night in an effort to bring him down. EJ met up with John Black and was under Stefano’s orders to kill John. He shot John, and the crime was witnessed by Tek Cramer, who disappeared from Salem about a month later. EJ soon encountered Sami and forced her at gunpoint to help him get through the police roadblock in Lexie’s car. Afterward, he forced Sami to have sex with him in exchange for saving Lucas’s life. After this incident, EJ fled to Mexico.
EJ came back to Salem a month later, where the police had no sufficient evidence to link him to John’s shooting. In order to stay close to Sami, EJ hired a reluctant Lucas to work for Mythic. While leafing through Sami’s trash one day, he discovered that Sami was indeed pregnant and shared the joyous news with his ill father.
During this time, EJ brainwashed Steve Johnson by presenting a Devil Tarot card in his face, per Stefano’s orders. Through this method, he got Steve to do all his dirty bidding, which included taking a comatose John from the hospital and ordering Steve to take John’s kidney. Additionally, EJ ordered Steve to kill Bo Brady.
EJ soon charmed Billie Reed as she proposed her security idea to him. He even kissed her in excitement of her brilliant idea, but she asserted that they were business partners only.
