Michael Cambias
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| Michael Cambias | |||||||||||||||
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 William deVry as Michael Cambias |
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| All My Children | |||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | William deVry | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | January 23, 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | August 28, 2003 (later as a fabricated vision in 2004 and 2006) | ||||||||||||||
| Cause/reason | Shot and killed by Bianca Montgomery (self-defense) | ||||||||||||||
| Created by | Gordon Rayfield | ||||||||||||||
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| Aliases | Michael Kinsey | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Business shark and Former owner Cambias Enterprises | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Former heir to the Cambias fortune and Former CEO | ||||||||||||||
| Residence | Pine Valley, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||
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Michael Cambias, formerly a brief resident of the fictional town of Pine Valley, appeared on the American daytime drama All My Children. He was portrayed by actor William deVry, from January 23, 2003 to August 2003, and later in a ghostly vision in 2004 and 2006.
The character is one that lives in infamy due to the controversial rape storyline of All My Children heroine Bianca Montgomery. The event became one of the most debated topics within the soap opera medium and was nicknamed "Voldemort", a title first coined by Television Without Pity message board members to mean "the storyline that shall not be named."[1]
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[edit] Storyline
Character Michael Cambias is primarily remembered for raping Erica Kane's daughter, Bianca Montgomery. His background shows him to be the spoiled, wealthy and extremely arrogant son of Alexander Cambias, Sr. (later known as the Satin Slayer). He comes to Pine Valley with business partner Lena Kundera in an attempt to take over several prominent Pine Valley businesses, including Chandler Enterprises, Cortlandt Enterprises, Enchantment and Fusion Cosmetics.
In early 2003, going by the alias of Michael Kinsey, he meets Kendall Hart during Kendall's trip to Aspen. He is there for Kendall emotionally, who is highly vulnerable at the time, and Kendall soon falls for him romantically. When she discovers that his name is actually Michael Cambias, and that he is known as an infamous corporate shark, he tells her that he had a good reason for not revealing his name to her and that he does not plan to take over her company, Fusion Cosmetics.
Instead he tries to enlist Kendall in helping him in his fight for Enchantment. What Kendall does not know is that Michael does, in fact, plan to take over her company as well. He is aware of Kendall's hatred for her mother, Erica Kane, and feels that this may be of service to him. At his request, his spy, Lena, works at Erica's company. Michael's lover as well as his partner in scheming, Lena works to romantically seduce chemist Boyd Larraby and Erica's lesbian daughter, Bianca. Unbeknownst to Michael, Kendall discovers his affair with Lena. Betrayed and furious, Kendall informs Erica of his plans and becomes a double agent. As Michael catches Kendall in his office near his computer, he attempts to rape her, but Erica arrives just in time to stop the event. During this time, Lena has truly fallen for Bianca romantically. She does not want to continue with Michael's plan, but he threatens violence against her mother and deportation, which results in Lena continuing to follow his orders.
She steals a formula from Erica's office safe. Not wanting Kendall to be her replacement at Enchantment, Erica agrees to leave her company under the condition that Kendall does not take over her reins. Michael feels that his plan is victorious and promises his father that he has acquired Enchantment for him. His father, Alexander, is not quite sure of Michael's claims. He has only recently given Michael power in the Cambias fortune after Michael's older brother, Alexander Jr., died in the mid-1980s. Matters do take a bad turn for Michael, when, at a press conference, Erica announces that the formula is a fake; it was a ruse. Erica has acquired the reins over Cambias Industries. Alexander is forced to give Erica a seat on the board of directors. Angry and embarrassed, Alexander claims that Michael is no longer his son.
Arrested for his corporate espionage, Michael is sent to jail, but is bailed out by Adam Chandler. Michael later makes a visit to Erica's office and nearly rapes her, but Kendall arrives (just as her mother had done for her when Kendall was almost raped by Michael) and smashes a glass pitcher over his head. Michael escapes these charges since Kendall is the only eyewitness. When displeased, he also attacks Lena at one point.
On a gloomy, rainy and thunderous night when the power is out in all houses of Pine Valley, Michael breaks into the boarding house Bianca resides at and rapes her.
Michael is later charged with raping Bianca, but is acquitted, to the community's utter disgust. (An angry Lena even goes so far as to almost attack him after the acquittal.) His after-trial gloating, wherein he states that he "owns Pine Valley, and everybody in it", angers nearly everyone in hearing range and Jackson Montgomery, Bianca's uncle, warns Cambias's attorney to get him out of the courtroom, before the crowd becomes a lynch mob. Eventually he is found dead in a freezer outside of Pine Valley. His funeral is attended by most everyone who cares for Bianca, and their "eulogies" are laced with anger and hatred toward him.
Lena even goes so far as to spit on his grave. It is later discovered that he was killed by Bianca in self-defense when he tried to rape her again. His final burial place, fittingly enough, is in the city dump; whilst an empty casket was a ruse for the funeral.
[edit] Specific character detail
Character Michael Cambias was born in 1969.
The writers had him die of a fatal injury sustained after a gunshot wound to the abdomen by Bianca Montgomery in August 2003.
[edit] Victims
| Name | Attack |
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| Kendall Hart | Attempted to rape her twice |
| Erica Kane | Attempted rape |
| Bianca Montgomery | Raped; tried to rape a second time |
| Lena Kundera | Assault |
| Maggie Stone | Assault |
[edit] References
- ^ Warn, Sarah. "The Debate Over Bianca's Rape on All My Children", AfterEllen.com, June 2003. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
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