Leo and Greenlee du Pres

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Leo and Greenlee du Pres (Josh Duhamel and Budig).

Leo du Pres and Greenlee Smythe du Pres were a very popular couple on the American soap opera All My Children. Leo was played by Josh Duhamel and Greenlee was played by Rebecca Budig.

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Schemers Leo and Greenlee met when Greenlee was trying to win back college flame, Scott Chandler, from virgin do-gooder, Becca Tyree. Leo wanted Becca for himself, so when Greens offered him a bet to get Becca into bed, Leo readily took the challenge. Leo and Greenlee friendship deepened and as time passed, they learned they had a lot in common. Greenlee eventually moved on to attempting to seduce Ryan Lavery, but gave him up when it became obvious only loved Gillian Andrassy, Greenlee developed a relationship with Leo. The two fooled around, but neither one put much thought into the fact that they could have a real relationship with each other.

Greenlee covered for Ryan when he "borrowed" $2 million from his Internet company's tills. She got involved with a sleazy loan shark with ties to the underworld named Wade Randall. Wade loaned Greenlee the money to cover Ryan's debt (so that Ryan would not be arrested for embezzlement), but Wade immediately took Greenlee to task by demanding that she introduce him to her wealthy grandfather, Woodruff Greenlee. Greens feared that Wade would kill her grandfather. She was bought some extra time to honor Wade's deadline by a unlucky turn of events --- Woodruff suffered a mild heart attack. During this time, Greenlee learned that Ryan had borrowed the money to run off with Gillian and rescue Jake Martin in war-torn Chechnya. Greens went to the police and told them of Ryan's dipping into his company's money. In the process, she cleared herself of any possible connection. When Ryan returned to the US, he was promptly arrested. This ordeal seemed to help Greenlee get Ryan out of her system for good.

Leo and Greenlee in a publicity photo

Greenlee's trouble with Wade, though, was anything but over. Wade somehow managed to regain his freedom and he immediately went after Greenlee for turning him in to the cops. He held Greens and gunpoint and demanded that she get him a sizeable chunk of cash and a passport out of the country. Greenlee tried her best to get Leo out of the way by telling him that she didn't care about him and wanted nothing more to do with him. Nevertheless, Leo continued hanging around and almost got shot in the process. Wade later collared Greenlee and held her hostage for $1,000,000 in ransom. Woodruff agreed to drop off the money at the boathouse in order to win his granddaughter's freedom. Leo happened upon the scene and tried to muscle Wade into submission. He failed and Wade locked Leo and Greenlee in a faulty elevator. Leo helped Greenlee escape the elevator before its cable snapped; Leo wasn't as lucky, though he did manage to escape before the elevator totally bottomed out.

Afterwards, Leo and Greenlee were closer than ever. Leo took Greens to the tropics to toast their new relationship. What Greenlee didn't know was that Leo was using her grandfather's ransom money to fund the getaway. When Greenlee learned the truth, she and Leo returned to Pine Valley and Leo was subsequently arrested for theft. Greenlee asked her grandfather to have the charges against Leo dropped. Woodruff said only that he'd talk to Leo. Woodruff visited Leo in his jail cell and told him that he'd drop the charges against him if he agreed to take the rest of the ransom money and fly to Europe --- and never see Greenlee again. Leo refused and won Woodruff's respect in the process. Greenlee, however, thought that Leo had accepted the offer and severed her ties to Leo. She later learned from her grandfather that Leo hadn't accepted the offer, but by then Leo was furious with Greens and was questioning whether or not he really wanted her in his life.

Leo and Greenlee found themselves growing more and more fond of each other. Eventually, Leo and Greenlee's attraction turned to love. In the later winter of 2001, Greenlee asked Leo to marry her. Leo feared accepting her proposal because Roger Smythe, Greenlee's dad, had learned that he had originally come to Pine Valley to swindle Greens out of her fortune. As it turned out, Leo had developed true feelings for Greenlee and no longer wanted her money. He had a prenuptial agreement drawn up that would prevent him for seeing even one cent of Greenlee's money after a split. Roger caught wind of the agreement and flew in a woman from Verona, Italy named Sybella di Courcey. During his days as a con, Leo had taken Sybella for everything she had. Sybella lied and said that Leo had asked her for a prenup too -- though that part of the story was a lie; she had made it up to ruin Leo's happiness, the same way that he had stolen her money. Greenlee and Leo promptly split, though it was clear that both loved the other.

Later that spring, a frantic Brooke English begged to pretend to be interested in her dying daughter, Laura, so that this romantic interest would spur Laura to fight for her life. Leo initially refused, but over time he and Laura grew more and more close. It was suspect if Leo truly loved Laura, but it was clear that he really did care for Laura and wanted to see her recover fully. On June 18th, Leo popped the question to a hospitalized Laura -- and she accepted. Just two days later, the pair married in Laura's hospital room with Brooke, Bianca, David Hayward (Leo's half-brother), and nurse Zora in attendance. However, in spite of her happiness, Laura's health continued to deteriorate rapidly and the only possible way to save her life was with a heart transplant. In the nick of time, Leo learned that Gillian had been shot in the head and managed to convince her grieving husband Ryan to donate her heart to Laura. Laura rapidly recovered, but was quite needy and Leo almost immediately realized that as much as he wanted to, he did not love her. Leo loved only Greenlee, and he could barely even make love to his wife.

Leo and Greenlee in a screen capture of All My Children

Even though he was married to Laura, Greenlee was determined to win back Leo. When Laura recovered from her transplant, Leo found himself trapped in a loveless marriage. Greenlee seized her oppotunity and was tossed in jail after violating a restraining order to steer clear of the married couple.

Greens eventually gave up on Leo as he was determined to keep Laura happy in his sham of a marriage. Greenlee subsequently moved in with Jake Martin and the two became very close.

Laura eventually began to go insane, ploting against Greenlee and ultimately guilted Leo into a "proper" ceremony which was stopped only because Greenlee set off the sprinkler system. Leo took the downpour as symbolic, cut all ties with Laura, and set out on winning Greens back.

Once Leo left Laura, Greenlee became torn between Jake and Leo. Neither man wanted to be "the other man." Leo proposed to Greenlee and she accepted, but the engagement was later broken when Greenlee admitted to have feelings for Jake. Greenlee would end up trapped on an island with Jake after she was drugged and left for dead on a sinking boat by Leo's mother Vanessa Cortland. Greenlee and also-drugged Jake escaped their near-watery grave, but Greenlee's unwillingness to commit to Jake resulted in Jake walking away and Leo and Greenlee happily reunited.

Leo spent most of 2002 coping with his bizarre and criminal family. First came Vanessa kidnapping and nearly killing Greenlee, and the reveal that Vanessa had long been Proteus, head of an international drug cartel. Leo began to wonder about the drug money she had stashed away somewhere, seeing that cash as a way for him and Greenlee to eventually move to their favorite city, Paris. Vanessa developed a split personality, was admitted to the hospital as a psych patient, and Leo was drawn into her needs in spite of his better judgment. He also distrusted her new lawyer Trey Kenyon (who later turned out to be Leo's half-brother) -- and with good reason, as Trey plotted against him and Vanessa both out of revenge and to get his hands on the Proteus money.

Leo and Greenlee's wedding - July 2002

As Greenlee tried to deal with Leo's need to stay in Vanessa's life and the constant revolving door of his newfound relatives, she and Leo finally managed to marry in summer of 2002. Even this was marred, due to former associates of Vanessa's (who also wanted, you guessed it, the drug money) crashing the wedding with her in tow. Greenlee's father, Roger Smythe, who had continued to worm his way back into her life even after disappointing her countless times, was shot by drug operatives. A few hours before he died, he accidentally slipped out to Greenlee that he was sleeping with her roommate and close friend, Simone Torres. After he died, Greenlee's pain was intensified when she overheard her grandfather telling her mother, Mary Smythe, who had recently come back into her life claiming to want a reconciliation, that he knew she was only interested in Greenlee because she wanted to be put back in his will. Greenlee's dependency on Leo was magnified and they went off on a brief honeymoon. The happiness was not to last.

When they returned to town, the couple became embroiled with Trey and Kendall Hart, both of whom Greenlee despised, in a quest to track down the missing Proteus drug money. The paper trail ended in worthless stocks, and with Vanessa being shipped off to a federal location and Greenlee seized the opportunity to convince Leo to move to Paris with her. However, Vanessa went into a coma, died for a few seconds, and came back as the calm, sweet mother Leo had never had - Nessa. Leo felt close to her for the first time. Leo also discovered he had another long-lost relative (cousins Maggie and Frankie Stone had arrived in town earlier in the year) -- Trey was actually his older brother, Ben Shepherd! Trey had assumed his dead best friend's identity and had dedicated his life to wreaking havoc on the mother who had abandoned him at birth. Leo, also a lost soul, quickly accepted Trey and forgave the many misdeeds Trey had perpetrated on him in the past months. Working with Greenlee and Kendall, they found the Proteus "stash" - worthless stocks. They thought the trail had finally reached a dead end, and could only laugh.

Even though Vanessa had supposedly given way to a kindler, gentler split personality, Greenlee didn't trust her for a second. In truth, "Nessa", who was now in federal custody, had reverted back to being Vanessa, and knew of the real treasure - a fortune in diamonds. Greenlee was increasingly frightened by Nessa and never believed for a second that she was kind or sweet. She demanded that Leo finally give up his "loser" family for good, and he agreed. But moments before their flight to Paris, he received a call from David, whom he had been helping out after his latest arrest and imprisonment. Unfortunately, while he was absent, Vanessa kidnapped Greenlee. She took her to Miller Falls and informed Leo he had to find and give her the diamonds before she would release Greens. In a panic, Leo found the jewels and raced to the falls with Trey. When Vanessa refused to release her hostage, Leo began dropping the priceless gems over the falls, one by one. Vanessa agreed to do as he wished, but actually planned to kill her hated enemy. When Leo realized this, he dived over the falls with his mother. His body was never recovered. His beloved "Greens" and his family, who saw him as their moral center, were devastated. As much as they tried to move on with their lives, they felt an inescapable ache. Greenlee had lost her soulmate and one true love. Pine Valley, and Greenlee, would never quite be the same without him.