lex luthor question?

[Fanatix]

Sooo I was just looking around wikipedia and I found a rather interesting piece of information.

He has a daughter!? When the hell did that happen? Is she still alive? He doesn't exactly seem like the father type. I know he got married to the contessa, i've got a couple of comics that reference that event even though I never saw them as a couple.

Also what is his current origin? There are three main ones. That he was involved in an explosion with superboy, that he was a crooked kid with poor and crooked parents and he just kinda grew up to be a very bad man, or that he was already rich and learned to be manipulative from lionel. Although, I could have sworn I'd heard of "lionel luthor" before smallvile so where does that name come from to?

[Adam Chapman]

I think the second is the most probable to be the official and current origin for Luthor. Although I wonder if his time as his "son" is still in continuity.

[Adam Chapman]

According to wikipedia, Superman: Birthright, which could be canon now that IC is over, established that Lex killed his parents, but then had an actor named Lionel pretend to be his father when he moved to Smallville (which makes little to no sense to me, but then I haven't read it ).

From wikipedia:

In the Silver Age era Superman comics, Lex's father Jules was a fairly nondescript individual who moved his family to Smallville, where his son Lex became friends with Superboy. However, after Lex turned to a life of crime, Lex's father disowned his son, moving with the rest of his family (which included his wife Arlene and Lex's young sister Lena) out of Smallville and, in shame, changing their last names to "Thorul," an anagram for "Luthor."

Following John Byrne's 1986 revamp of Superman's origins, Lex's parents' backstory was altered so that Lex's father and mother were killed in an automobile accident perpetrated by their son. Lex had taken out a large life insurance premium on the couple, which he used to launch his conglomerate LexCorp.

With the 2004 comic series Birthright, Lex's family history has been altered yet again, incorporating elements similar to the Smallville television show as well as Silver Age aspects and fusing them with the family story provided in Byrne's revamp. Now according to Superman canon, Lex killed his parents, but hired an actor to play his father, Lionel, when he moved to Smallville.

In Teen Titans (3rd series) #26, a flashback shows Lex Luthor naming the Superboy clone "Project Lionel", after his father. However, this scene takes place in Superboy's mind, so is not reliable, especially as Luthor is portrayed as the familiar bald figure, whereas at the time the flashback is set, he had shoulder-length hair and a beard. While some think this appearance was done to make Lex look similar to Glover's Lionel, this is untrue. During the '90's at which point Superboy was intoduced, Lex Luthor had cloned himself into a new body, which had long red hair and beard. This of course, predated Glover's Lionel Luthor.

[Justin Byrd]

His daughter was with the Contessa, afterward he had her drugged and stowed away (his wife, not the kid). She kidnapped Lena with Bizarro, and later he traded Lena for control over Metropolis after the Brainiac upgrade, and then she returned before OWAW (all grown up). After the Imperiex War, he got her back albeit with faded Brainiac circuitry in her forehead, hired a nanny named L-something L-something, who had green eyes (a la Brainiac).

Then it was never revisited, and I haven't seen her much since.