List of Sunset Beach characters

When Paula accidentally saw him in a jewelry store, he thought she was on to him, so he decided to teach her a lesson by kidnapping her and then paying Ralph Myers, a criminal, to torture her.

When she went through a few pre-marriage problems, Eddie Connors tried to seduce her, but she rejected him, so he decided to teach her a lesson by paying Ralph, a criminal, to kidnap and rape her.

When Gabi and Antonio ends up trapped in an exploding building, they thought they would die and so they gave in to their love for each other and they slept together, and a camera filmed them.

Eventually, Ricardo forgives them and Gabi decides to leave town and find good stuff somewhere else, giving up on her true love Antonio.

This led to something of a mild rivalry between Casey and Wei-Li when he arrived in Sunset Beach to see Rae, but it never grew into anything serious as the two men actually liked each other.

Alex Mitchum, his mother, came to Sunset Beach with an illness, but she decided to hide it from her son, yet the truth was soon discovered.

Also, past came back to haunt her when she realized that her best friends Olivia Richards and Bette Katzenkazrahi helped Del Douglas kidnap her baby Cole Deschanel when she was young.

During the Terror Island storyline, Virginia tried to kill Vanessa several times, but she did not do it, because they had to worry about the serial killer on the loose.

On the night of Meg Cummings and Ben Evans' wedding, Virginia used a turkey baster to insert Tyus' sperm (which she stole) into Vanessa and impregnated her.

Sunset Beach's final episode, which aired on December 31, 1999, featured the double wedding of Michael and Vanessa alongside Meg and Ben.

When the situation had resolved itself, Vanessa decided to leave to Hong Kong briefly, but promised to keep their love alive.

On the night of Meg Cummings' and Ben Evans' wedding, Virginia used a turkey baster to insert Tyus' sperm (which she stole) into Vanessa and impregnated her.

I love babies; just don't let them come from my womb and I am a happy camper.Vanessa and Michael broke up, and Tyus comforted Vanessa.

He's spending his days running a business in Sunset Beach, and chatting on the net with a mysterious woman named Dorothy.

Meg and Ben start to fall in love, but their happiness was limited by Annie, who stopped at nothing to achieve what she wanted.

Derek plotted with Tess to destroy Ben's life, and they eventually killed Tim, Meg's ex-fiancé.

Already in the first episode, she stole a bag from Meg Cummings and then used the letter inside to play with Ben Evans's mind.

[18] The show's head writer Margaret DePriest told the reporter that the "obscene" phone calls would continue and "esculate to a haunting conclusion in February 1999."

Derek's first venture to Sunset Beach was in 1993 (off-screen), when he seduced his brother Ben's wife, Maria Torres, and staged her death.

Just before New Year's Eve 1997, this time on-screen, murders started to happen on a mysterious island owned by Ben Evans.

He appeared when Meg returned to Kansas in September 1997, and then later arrived to Sunset Beach to live there with his wife after their farm was destroyed.

When her daughter Meg ran away to Sunset Beach at her wedding day, Joan was supportive and often gave her advice.

helped Olivia find her lost son, who turned out to be the child her daughter Caitlin Richards Deschanel was raising.

During the last few episodes, Maria decided to let Ben and Meg be happy, and she met a new man in her life, named Ross English.

It came as a shock for Cole Deschanel to encounter his ex-lover and a fellow jewel thief Francesca Vargas on the boat that had the same destiny as the Titanic.

He first appeared in summer 1998, and became friends with Sean Richards and Emily Davis, and an instant enemy to Amy Nielsen and Brad Niklaus.

Amy suffered not only the trauma of the island, but learned Sean had only invited her because his original choice, Elizabeth, had vanished (killed by the serial killer).

When this was confirmed by paternity tests, he and Tess moved into Ben's house (where Meg and Maria were also living) and was often the reason for fights between them.

Jude was revealed to be an undercover agent assigned to catch Annie's husband Gregory Richards, a criminal who was presumed dead.

Carmen's life turned around when her son Antonio returned to Sunset Beach and fell in love with Gabi, with whom he slept on the night they thought they would die.