[3] In 1991, Conley said, "Other soaps have tried the older, outrageous woman, but have only picked up the eccentricities... [Sally's] a successful businesswoman.

Spectra later discovered that Clarke was having an affair with Kristen Forrester (then played by Terri Ann Linn).

With the help of her Spectra family Sally managed to prove Clarke's infidelity to court and thus avoided losing her company.

For a long time after Darlene Conley's death, nothing was explained about Sally's absence, except mention by her son, C.J.

that she had been ill. Sally has been married twice, first to Adam Alexander (Michael Swan) by whom she had a daughter, Macy and later to Clarke Garrison with whom she has a son named C.J.

When Darlene Conley died in 2007, the Bold and the Beautiful gave Sally a happy ending, explaining that she was living off-screen in the South of France, "surrounded by hunky cabana boys."

This character is Sally's grand-niece, and she continues in the Spectra tradition, with flaming red hair and an outsized personality.

But like Scarlett O'Hara with a regular salon appointment, she pulled herself from adversity, dusted herself off, adjusted her shoulder pads and got back in the game.

"[9] In 1998, the character was commemorated with a statue in Madame Tussauds famous wax museums in London, Amsterdam and Melbourne, "duplicating Spectra's mane of red hair and Rubenesque figure.

"[10] Following Conley's death, her Bold and the Beautiful wardrobe was auctioned to benefit the Center for the Protection of Child Abuse.

[11] In 2022, Charlie Mason from Soaps She Knows placed Sally second on his ranked list of The Bold and the Beautiful’s Best of the Best Characters Ever, commenting "The late, great Darlene Conley's larger-than-life character may have trafficked in knockoff fashions, but her portrayer was 100-percent original — a camp classic whose spirit has proven to be impossible to recycle!