David Hayward from jail so that he could do risky surgery to attempt to save or prolong Laura's life. The two women worked together because of a common bond: motherhood.
Erica strongly disapproved of her daughter Bianca's friendship with tomboy Mary Frances "Frankie" Stone.
Sure enough, Frankie turned up dead several hours later. Thinking that Bianca had killed Frankie, Erica decided to take the fall for Frankie's death. The trial quickly degraded into a three-ring circus, with Erica ditching counsel in order to represent herself.
Erica was ultimately found not guilty, but her relationships with Bianca and lawyer-and-lover Chris Stamp were severely strained. Erica was soon reconciled with Bianca and Chris due to their mutual hatred of Erica's long-estranged daughter, Kendall, who had arrived back in town to play a part in Erica's murder trial. Kendall did her best to ruin Erica's bonds with Bianca and Chris, while Erica plotted various ways to drive Kendall out of Pine Valley, none of which worked. When Erica's home was set on fire and Bianca nearly died, Erica immediately blamed Kendall and refused to believe anyone who doubted her guilt.
However, ultimately Erica learned of evidence that Kendall had not been responsible and cleared her. Still, Erica had no intention of having a real relationship with Kendall, since at one point she had even told Kendall she saw her rapist every time she looked in Kendall's eyes.
Memories of Richard Fields continued to haunt Erica as one night she thought she heard his voice at the construction site for her new office. She hit the man on the head with a pipe, only to realize he was Trey Kenyon, Kendall's roommate and former attorney. Soon she also learned that he was Richard's son by Vanessa Cortlandt, and that he had burned down her home earlier that year. Erica decided to make both him and Kendall pay for their nasty ways, but ultimately landed a brief stay in jail after breaking into Kendall's hotel room.
Her friends and family rallied around her for the Thanksgiving holiday. By February Erica's newest concern was Fusion, an upstart cosmetics company run by, among others, Kendall, and Erica's former star employee, Greenlee. Her personal life should have been perfect, as she was engaged to Chris. But her old feelings for Jack were resurfacing once again, leaving Erica guilt-ridden after she and Jack shared a passionate kiss in her apartment one day.
Erica and Jack had a one-night stand. After a few months, Chris found out about Erica and Jack's tryst, and dumped her. He went off the deep end and was a prime suspect when Jack was shot, but he was soon cleared. Chris and Erica made peace as Chris announced his plans to leave town. Meanwhile, Erica rallied to Jack's side as he recovered from his shooting.
They got engaged, only to have Erica push him away when she found out Chris had been shot and killed. She saw it as a curse, which she brought on men. Jack quickly wore down her defenses, and they reconciled. Michael tried his best to take over Enchantment, using Bianca's girlfriend Lena and Kendall as pawns in his twisted mind games.
Lena was arrested for her corporate espionage, and Kendall played double agent for Erica. Erica saved Kendall from Michael's attempt at rape.
A few weeks later, after Erica reaffirmed her hold on Enchantment and forced her way into a major role at Cambias Industries, squeezing Michael out in the process, Michael tried to rape Erica, and Kendall was the savior this time.
Erica disliked Lena but grew to accept her in Bianca's life. Michael was not so easy to deal with and continued to menace Erica and her daughters. His threats spurred more flashbacks to the night Richard Fields raped Erica, and Kendall was a great comfort. For the first time, mother and daughter had worked out their issues and were actually close.
With this fence temporarily mended, Erica worried about what was troubling Bianca, because she didn't know Michael had raped Bianca. On the romantic front, after Jack nearly died of complications from his gunshot wound, only a rare blood type saved his life. Erica discovered that Greenlee had provided that rare blood type, and was Jack's daughter via a long-before affair with Mary Smythe, who wanted Jack back.
Erica blackmailed Mary with proof of past misdeeds while Erica tried her best to push ahead with wedding plans and keep the truth from Jackson and Greenlee. On Erica and Jackson's wedding day, Greenlee walked into the ceremony and announced that she was Jack's daughter.
Hurt that Erica had kept the truth from him, Jack called the wedding off. During the summer of , Michael Cambias had raped Bianca, and also tried to rape Erica and Kendall, but was not successful. Bianca didn't tell anyone about the rape, although everyone noticed the drastic and unhealthy change in her behavior. In order to cover up her rape, she told everyone that she had broken up with Lena and that was why she was so upset.
She broke things off with Lena, not giving much of an explanation or reason. Weeks later, Bianca finally admitted to Maggie Stone that she'd been raped. Bianca continued to hide her rape from her family, including Erica, who knew better than anyone else how she felt.
Erica was led to believe that it was actually Kendall who was pregnant. Kendall had devised a strategy to shield Bianca from anyone finding out that she had decided not to terminate her pregnancy. Kendall went on trial for Michael Cambias' murder, and things went terribly out of control.
Ryan figured out that Bianca wasn't pregnant and agreed to help the two women carry out their plan of deception. Ryan hired a top-notch doctor, who agreed to conduct a non-invasive paternity test on Bianca and say that she had conducted the test on Kendall.
The test results satisfied the court, but there were still those who doubted that Kendall was really pregnant. In the middle of court, Greenlee duPres yanked Kendall's dress off, revealing a pregnancy pouch. The incident turned everything upside down. Everyone put two and two together and realized that Bianca was carrying Michael's child. Erica was outraged and blasted her daughters for having lied to her.
Kendall and Bianca both claimed that they had been doing what they thought was best for Erica, but Erica didn't believe them. Slowly but surely, Bianca started to recall that she might have more information about Michael Cambias' murder. The pieces finally fell together and she realized that she had been the one who'd shot and killed Michael. She had visited Michael's condo, toting Reggie's gun. When Michael had again tried to harm her, she had shot and killed him.
Following Bianca's confession, the judge presiding over the case leaned hard on the prosecution not to press any charges against Bianca. The resulting stress of the situation started Erica drinking, something she hadn't done since she'd gotten hooked on painkillers.
Though her loved ones begged her to stop, Erica saw no need for their concern. As Bianca's due date approached, she found herself trapped in the middle of nowhere with Babe after a storm. Babe called Paul and asked that he fly his medical helicopter to take her and Bianca to the hospital.
Paul initially refused, but later agreed. When he arrived, he helped Babe deliver her baby. He then administered an unknown medicine to Babe, leaving her groggy. During that time, Paul staged a chopper crash. When Babe awakened, Paul told her that her baby had died during the crash.
However, when help arrived and Babe's family threatened harm to Paul if anything had happened to Babe's child, Paul changed his story and said that Bianca's baby had been thrown from the chopper. He had hidden Babe's baby in a nearby cabin and planned to give the baby boy to Kelly so that Kelly could pass the baby off as her own. Bianca's baby was then given to Babe, leaving Bianca and her family to believe that her child had been killed.
Erica was overjoyed later when she, and the rest of the family, learned that Bianca's daughter Miranda was alive and well. She managed to put aside her reservations concerning Miranda's conception to accept her daughter, and also cemented her relationship with Jack by marrying him in a beautiful ceremony in Florida.
Shortly after, she began hosting her own show, New Beginnings , and had planned to use Greg Madden as her first guest. Before long, Erica realized that Greg, who had shown an alarming interest in her, was the doctor who had performed her abortion during her marriage to Jeff. She also discovered that his son, Josh, was actually her own son -- rather than abort Erica's baby, Greg had implanted the fetus in his own wife. Erica had every reason to get revenge on Greenlee, since Greenlee had gotten into a car accident that had nearly killed Erica's grandson, Spike Lavery.
This plan blew up in Erica's face, and Jack broke off his relationship with Erica. Erica was intrigued by U.
Attorney Samuel Woods's campaign for the U. What Erica did not know was that Samuel Woods had investigated her for insider trading. Apparently, Erica had gotten word from a close confidant that the stock price for Chandler Enterprises would soar through the roof one day.
Erica decided to sell her stocks on the day that it happened. Erica decided that, rather than plead not guilty and see Sam get publicity for her arrest, she would plead guilty and serve time in prison.
Erica was sentenced to a federal prison. While being escorted to prison, Erica met Carmen Morales. When the bus carrying both of them crashed, Erica and Carmen went on the run. Carmen told Erica that she'd gotten arrested thanks to her ex-boyfriend, "Mando," and his mother in a robbery that she claimed was their fault. Erica told Carmen she would help Carmen get revenge on both of them. When Erica phoned the police about Mando and his mother's involvement in the robbery, the police arrived and arrested both Mando and his mother.
Erica and Carmen were escorted to prison. Erica turned out to be a model prisoner. She implemented some new programs to help the women at the prison gain job skills so, upon release, they would have the knowledge to compete for employment.
However, a couple of the inmates threatened Erica's life. The warden decided to put her into protective custody. Erica spent some time in solitary confinement but, thanks to Jack and Sam pulling some strings, the warden removed her from this predicament.
Erica's good behavior caused her to be released from prison early. On the day of her release, another inmate, Sable, took Erica hostage at knifepoint when she claimed that Erica had slept with her husband.
Erica claimed she never did such a thing. Erica freed herself from Sable and left the prison. Erica resumed ties with her ex husband, Adam Chandler. While Adam and Erica were trapped together during the tornado, Adam, thinking that he would die, confessed to Erica that he had tainted the Bella perfume launched by Fusion so as to get the company for himself. Since Erica was in charge of Fusion, due to Kendall giving her proxy, and Kendall was unable to work there, because she was in a coma from the tornado, Erica used the information to get all lawsuits against Fusion over the Bella tainting to be dropped.
Shortly after, Kendall was diagnosed with heart failure, and Erica's other two children, Bianca and Josh, returned to town. Bianca arrived with her girlfriend, Reese Williams. Josh returned to act on his feelings of anger and resentment toward Erica. Josh had angered Zach when he embezzled money from the casino, and he was back to steal more money.
Josh robbed the casino at gunpoint. Erica was at the casino and recognized Josh's ring. Next came Jeremy Hunter, but that didn't work for long either. She moved on to politician, Travis Montgomery and became pregnant with daughter, Bianca, but later divorced him. She had cheated with his brother, Jack, and became engaged to him, but when Bianca became deathly ill with Reye's syndrome, concerned parents, Travis and Erica reunited.
Before long, Erica was back in Jack's arms. Brooke English had her eye on Jack, too, and Erica was livid. Their longstanding rivalry over men dated back to Tom Cudahy. Erica accused Brooke of following her around and picking up her leftovers, and it was true. Brooke had married Adam Chandler and was engaged to Mark for a while, and there were others.
Erica parted from Jack and moved on to her next husband, Dimitri Marick. Their marriage hit a rocky spot when Kendall Hart, the product of Erica's rape at the age of fourteen, showed up on their doorstep and began making her mother's life miserable. Daughter, Bianca, whom Erica lost in a custody battle with husband, Travis, was living in Seattle when Erica discovered her daughter was suffering from Anorexia.
Erica was in jail at the time on kidnapping charges, but was released to help Bianca recover. When she returned from a rehab center, Erica gave her a management position in her cosmetic company, Enchantment. Things smoothed out for a while until Erica was in a car accident and was left with a horrible scar on her cheek. Erica took revenge on the driver, Dr.
David Hayward, and held him hostage in her basement. She threatened to destroy his hands, the tools of his trade as he had destroyed her face. The fine line between hate and love narrowed as the two became involved.
A notable plastic surgeon was able to restore Erica's beauty, but her union with David was in trouble. He worked long hours, leaving Erica bored and lonely, and he despised the way she compared him with ex-husband, Dimitri.
On Christmas Eve of that year, Bianca admitted to her mother that she was gay. Erica listened but refused to believe.
She tried to bribe one lover into leaving town, and threatened to kill another, but eventually Erica had to accept her daughter's sexual preference.
It was during this time that Erica had a love affair with Chris Stamp. On Jack and Erica's wedding day, Greenlee burst in and revealed the truth of her paternity. Jack went to the hospital with Joe Martin and Tad to verify she was the blood donor that saved his life after complication from a gun shot wound.
Erica and Jack were since estranged, yet love would have them gravitate towards each other again. Bianca revealed Michael Cambias raped her after keeping the secret for about a month. Jack arrested Michael and Erica encouraged him to take Cambias down.
In the end, there was not enough evidence to prosecute him as Bianca had destroyed most of the evidence the night of the rape.
Erica comforted her daughter as she reverted for a time to a more infantile state. At the same time, Michael Cambias had gained control of Enchantment. Erica turned to former flame David for help in avenging Bianca's rape, and he obliged. Michael disappeared from Pine Valley soon afterward. He was presumed dead, and everyone in Pine Valley was a suspect.
Anna Devane found Erica's day planner in his apartment. Erica was disgusted, and disavowed her daughter again. All the while, Bianca learned she was pregnant with Michael's baby. Erica encouraged her to abort the fetus. Instead, Bianca decided not to terminate the pregnancy. She turned to Kendall, who agreed to her plan to deceive everyone that she was in fact pregnant with Michael's baby. Erica was even more furious with Kendall. When given the option of taking Enchantment back from Kendall with no strings attached, she rejected, refusing to be a pawn in her game.
Secretly, she was suspicious as to why Bianca was being so secretive and why David was working on a case for the now dead Frankie Stone. Erica had begun to cozy up to David again. The two planned to chemically castrate Michael the night he died, but things went awry. Erica stole Michael's gun and ran away with it. She blacked out; however, she did know Adam had seen her. Kendall was revealed to have been lying to everyone in her trial for Michael's murder.
Erica realized Bianca was still pregnant, and Kendall was not. Worried if she had in fact killed the rapist, Erica turned to Tad again to fill in the blanks of the night he died. In fact, it was Bianca who killed Michael. Erica could no longer handle the pressure of the trial and the pregnancy. She slowly turned to the bottle, worrying everyone around her including her ex-husband, Tom.
After the supposed death of her granddaughter, Miranda, Erica got a strange call and left her penthouse. He had died minutes before she arrived. Erica wanted to blame Eric for all the tragedies of her life. By cursing on his grave, Erica found a sense of closure she desperately needed. Nonetheless, her downward spiral continued. She was befriended by the owner of The Seasons casino, Zachary Slater.
Zach knew she was Erica Kane, but followed through with her charade as Desiree Dubois. After a drunken out lash, Zach forced her into a hospital.
She called Ryan to save her. He arrived and, after much argument, was able to take her out of the hospital and back to the Pine Valley. As she left Las Vegas, the dark image of Eric followed her. Back home, the pressure of being around loved ones only fueled her alcoholism. In her inebriated state, she scared the teenager. Jack showed up and kicked Erica out. The next morning, she heard knocking at her door.
When she opened it, Jack was there along with her daughters, Opal, and Myrtle. She recognized what Jack was doing: it was an intervention. Erica refused to listen to Jack. She did not think that she had a problem. It all looked in vain until Mark appeared at her door. Mark told Erica her problem was just like his drug addiction, and that just like she saved him, he was going to save her.
Erica admitted to the addiction and its root, her rape. Eric had given Erica to Fields all those years ago, and in return Fields was going to star in his movie.
With the truth out in the open, Erica could finally move on. She promised to go to rehabilitation to overcome her addiction. In an emotional move, she also proclaimed her love for everyone in the room, including Kendall. Zach seemed to have a vendetta against the Kane women. Jack and Erica again rekindled their love. On the night they were engaged Erica got devastating news, Bianca had fallen off a terrace and was in a coma.
Erica was worried about what the manipulative JR would do if she learned Erica knew the truth, so she made a bold move. She stormed into the Chandler Study and confronted Adam. She threatened her ex-husband saying no Kane would be raised under his watch, ever. Adam was forced to comply with Erica's demand for a DNA test. This time, the results left no doubts in anyone's mind: Bess Chandler was Miranda Montgomery.
JR tried to make one last run with the child, but Erica and her granddaughter were reunited. She and Jackson rushed to the hospital with Miranda in hand. She reintroduced her to Pine Valley, this time with the correct identity. Bianca laid in a coma. By her bedside, Erica demanded that Bianca wake up for the sake of her child.
Bianca slowly gained consciousness as Erica reunited her daughter with her own. The coming weeks were pure bliss for Erica. Choosing fame over her heart, she let Phil go. Erica realized that she could not keep Kitty and Lincoln apart. When she went to Phoebe with the news, Phoebe became belligerent. She was worth nothing to her now that Phil was free to marry Tara, and that Lincoln had not fallen for her flirtations.
Erica threw herself into her work. She found herself subtly flirting with Nick. She wondered how this could be. Though they knew they had to be discreet, Nick and Erica were carrying on a torrid affair. She left The Chateau for work at the Goalpost. Erica had grown fond of its owner, Tom Cudahy. She used Tom to make Nick jealous.
But Nick found his own counterpart in Claudette Montgomery. Erica planted marijuana on Claudette, a parolee for drug possession. Nick responded by planting it on her. When Mona discovered their affair, Nick called it off. He felt like Erica had tipped Mona off. Mona warned Erica to never see Mark again. They had a son: Mark. For this, he was now her enemy. Erica finally settled her sights on Tom. After all, he was a former Pro-Football player, and she was a former model.
Brooke English also had Tom in her sights. Erica confronted Brooke and warned her no other woman ever stood a chance against her, and neither would Brooke. She left a note inferring she was going to kill herself, and then left for a life of partying in New York. Her life on the fast lane came to abrupt end when she fell ill with a deadly strain of viral pneumonia.
Mark was the first person to make it to her bedside. Erica finally saw Mark as who he was: a loving brother. As she laid helpless, she realized her father was never there for her like Mark and her mother were. Mona and Nick arrived. Thinking Erica would die, Nick proposed to her. Erica miraculously recovered, and was intent on keeping Nick to his word.
But Nick had other plans. After a night of passionate love making, Nick told Erica their time together was over. He had sold the Chateau to Unirest, and was leaving for Chicago. On the rebound, Erica was more determined than ever to be married. First, she needed to get rid of Brooke who was filling in for her at The Goalpost while she recovered.
Then, she seduced Tom with promises of a family. It was not long before Tom proposed. But, Mona was not about to let Erica use Tom.
Mona warned her that if she married Tom, Mona would call her out for still loving Nick at the ceremony. Erica retaliated by telling Mona that she would cut her out of her life if she spoke even a word.
Mona sat silently as Tom and Erica wed. They left for a beautiful honeymoon in St. When they returned, Tom was ready to settle down, but Erica had other ideas in mind. She planned to re-launch her modeling career, but this time as a couple. Tom agreed to the photo layout to keep Erica happy. Erica knew the one person she needed to be at the launch party was Phoebe.
She needed Phoebe to see what she had become. Phoebe had other things on her mind. Erica intrigued Phoebe by promising her a piece of juicy gossip if she came to the party. Phoebe reluctantly acquiesced. Threatening to leave before the press arrived, Phoebe gave Erica one last opportunity to keep her attention. She told Phoebe that Phil, and not Chuck, was his father. No one was more disappointed in Erica than Tom. When he left, the press left, and Erica was alone once again.
The city rezoned, and Erica was no longer able to play music after midnight. Without a husband or a job, Erica left for Hollywood. But, Hollywood was not ready for Erica. She sought out her father and his friends, but neither wanted to help. She told her mother she felt like a failure, and even attempted suicide, but could not. Back in Pine Valley, she caught Tom in an embrace with Brooke.
This ignited a great fury in Erica. She wanted tom back. She was going to be the best wife he could ever ask for. She tried to covertly make the trips to New York, but Tom found out.
It was the last lie for him. He flew to the Caribbean and filed a quickie divorce. She was in a whirlwind romance with Brandon and a rising model for Sensuelle. She and Brandon took a break in Nassau when he got an emergency call. He brushed it off as a business matter, but Erica was suspicious. Kent wanted Erica to leave Sensuelle and work for him. He and his father, Lars Bogard, wanted to start a new cosmetics line named after Erica.
Kent bought out Sensuelle from under Brandon. Erica tried to keep his spirits up, but she caught him turning back to Sara for comfort. Erica retaliated by going on a romantic vacation with Kent to Milan. Brandon demanded Erica make a choice between he and Kent. Erica wanted to keep her job, and left Brandon. Eric had remarried and started another family in California. Erica was reluctant to let her sister into her home.
Silver proved to be a useful assistant, accompanying Erica on her photo-shoots in New York. Little did Erica know, Silver was sabotaging her performances. Silver had been working to sabotage her as an American Beauty. Her greatest betrayal came about when Silver admitted to having had an affair with Kent. Erica went to confront Kent. In the process, the gun Erica had given Kent for his birthday went off.
Silver was the only witness of the accidental shooting. Silver accused Erica of murdering Kent in cold blood. Erica turned to attorney Steve Jacobi to exonerate her for Kent's accidental death. Erica learned she had no chance for an insanity plea, she went on the room.
She was ready to leave Pine Valley for good when she found out Mona had called on Nick for help. She arranged for a secret meeting but was stopped by Brooke. Brooke was now a writer for Tempo and promised Erica safe passage if she gave her the exclusive story. Erica agreed, but during the interview someone overheard the truth about her identity.
Tad Martin had startling news for everyone. The woman claiming to be Silver was not Silver at all; rather she was a California con artist named Connie Wilkes. She was free to go. But, putting together the pieces of her life proved especially difficult.
Erica decided to found her own cosmetics company, Erica Kane Cosmetics, to battle Sensuelle. She was going to make Lars regret ever letting her go.
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