When Jill discovered that John knew about her indiscretion and had left town and Jabot, she quit her job there too.When John returned to Genoa City and Jabot two years later, Jill tried to explain about the night with Jack, but John had difficulty accepting it.
Unfortunately, the night before, John had walked past Jack's room and had seen Jill in Jack's bed.Jack was instrumental in the company's "going public," thereby allowing Victor's takeover.A deal was struck to return control of Jabot to the Abbotts, if Jack would abandon Nikki.Soon after, Jack's lover Diane accepted a marriage proposal from Andy Richards, so Jack turned to his young step-mother, Jill for comfort.After Andy and Jill had a fight, Jack followed her to a remote cabin where they were stranded during a heavy snowstorm.Diane and Jack continued their affair even after his marriage, and Diane threatened to tell Patty about it, if she didn't get the top model job at Jabot.
So Jack gave her the job for the summer, but by fall, Julia Newman was instead appointed spokesperson for Jabot's new line of products.John eventually found out about the liaison thanks to Katherine Chancellor.John went home and confronted Jill with a photo of her and Jack, and John suffered a stroke.Eventually, John gave in to Jill's charms and they began dating.Although Jack tried to destroy that relationship by revealing that Jill had a young son, Phillip, John and Jill were married.During his early Jabot career, Jack was known to have flings with nearly all the Jabot Models.