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] Character Michael Cambias is primarily remembered for raping Erica Kane's lesbian daughter, Bianca Montgomery.

Michael is later charged with raping Bianca, but to the community's utter disgust, he is acquitted due to a lack of physical evidence (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.

When she recalls killing Michael and confesses, the judge who believed Bianca's story all along, leans hard on the prosecution not to file any charges against her.