Lestat Timeline & Summary

Lestat converts Louis into a vampire 1791 because he wants Louis's plantation, Pointe du Lac.
There Lestat and Louis live, with Lestat's elderly father, until Lestat's bloodlust finally gets them into too much trouble to fix.
When the slaves come to kill them, Lestat makes Louis kill his father and then burn Pointe du Lac to the ground.
Lestat and Louis retreat to New Orleans where, one day, Lestat finds a small girl whom Louis had fed on and almost killed.
Afraid that Louis will leave him, Lestat turns Claudia into a vampire, hoping that having a child will force him to stay. That almost sounds like a plot twist on daytime TV.
It works... until Claudia grows to hate Lestat so much that she kills him.
Somehow, Lestat survives, and returns to kill Claudia.
But Claudia and Louis burn down the apartment with Lestat inside.
Doesn't work. Years later, Lestat reappears at the Théâtre des Vampires.
Lestat convinces Santiago to kidnap Claudia and Madeleine and kill them.
Even more years later, Lestat resurfaces again in New Orleans. He was absent when Louis burned down the Théâtre des Vampires.
However, Lestat now finds himself in the same existential crisis Louis has almost exhausted: Are vampires evil? What's the meaning of life? Why do we do what we do?
Lestat's just a heck of a lot whinier about it.