Kassie Wesley DePaiva (1993 to present)
Other Names
Blair Daimler (raised as)
Occupation
Owner of Capricorn nightclub
Former co-editor of The Sun newspaper (with Todd)
Former publisher of Craze
Former editor of The Sun newspaper
Former co-CEO of B&B United
Former reporter at The Banner
Former reporter at The Sun
Former owner of Melador Cosmetics
Resides At
La Boulaie, located on Lincoln Street in Llanview, PA
Formerly 17th Corinth St (Penthouse)
Marital Status
Married to John McBain [March 27, 2009 to Present]
Past Marriages
Asa Buchanan [June 16th, 1992 to 1992; divorced]
Todd Manning [February 1995 to August 1995; annulled]
Todd Manning [November 1995 to June 1997; divorced]
Max Holden [June 17th, 1999 to February 2nd, 2001; divorced]
Todd Manning [December 2001- September 2002, divorced]
Todd Manning [November 2003 to January 2004; annulled]
Todd Manning [September 28th, 2007 to July 2nd, 2008; divorced]
Relatives
Addie Cramer (mother)
David Vickers (step-father)
Lou Cramer (grandfather; deceased)
Sonya Roskova (grandmother; deceased)
Dorian Cramer (maternal aunt)
Melinda Cramer (maternal aunt)
Cassie Callison (maternal cousin)
Kelly Cramer (maternal cousin)
Adriana Cramer (maternal cousin)
Paul Cramer (maternal cousin; deceased)
William Sloan Carpenter (maternal first cousin once removed; deceased)
William Sloan River Carpenter (maternal first cousin, once removed; via adoption)
Kevin Buchanan Jr. (maternal first cousin, once removed; deceased)
Zane Buchanan (maternal first cousin, once removed)
Children
Starr Manning (daughter; with Todd; born 1996)
Brendan Thornhart (son; with Patrick; born 1997; stillborn)
Jack Cramer Manning (son; with Todd; born 2001)
Sam Manning (stepson; born 2006)
Hope Manning McBain (granddaughter, via Starr; born 2008; believed dead, but really being raised as Chloe Brennan)
Flings & Affairs
Cordero Roberts
Max Holden
Patrick Thornhart (deceased)
Sam Rappaport (deceased)
Kevin Buchanan
Spencer Truman (deceased)
Cristian Vega
John McBain
Crimes Committed
Withheld Asa's medication while he was having a heart attack
Accidentally ran over Luna Moody (1994).
Faked a pregnancy to trap Todd.
Conspired with Aunt Dorian to steal Kelly's inheritance from Ian Armitage.
Pushed Téa Delgado through a window
Conspired with Max to make Asa and Renée believe that Max was their son.
Shot Max Holden.
Assaulted and held Mitch Laurence at gunpoint (April 2003).
Kidnapped Jessica Buchanan (May 2003).
Maladies & Hospitalizations
Delivered a stillborn baby boy after being in a car accident [1997]
Had a severe stroke after losing baby [1997]
Suffered from a brain tumor [2004]
Fell off a warehouse roof during fight between Todd and Spencer and lost Todd's unborn child [2006]
Stabbed multiple times in shower [2009]
Brief Character History
Blair blew into town get on revenge on her Aunt Dorian because she believed Dorian had hurt her mother, Addie (who Blair was hiding in her attic). To help pay for her mother to get into a good facility, she quickly schemed to break up Asa's marriage to Renee and succeeded. Then she met Max Holden and sparks flew. She even went so far as to make love with Max on her wedding day, on her wedding dress! Asa eventually saw through her and hustled her out of town. Blair left town for about a year, and when she returned, she still pined for Max. Max however, was happily married to Luna Moody; whom Blair at one point accidentally ran over and then fled the scene. Blair also loved true-blue Cord Roberts, but the relationship ended when Cord broke up with her. Blair then began to associate with Todd Manning, who was her equal in town pariah status. When she found out that Todd Manning was an heir to the Lord fortune, she schemed her way into his heart and life by faking a pregnancy. She was forced to take a pregnancy test, which turned out positive. After she and Todd got married, she lost the baby. She and Todd split up and then got back together for real. Before their honeymoon, Todd left for Ireland on a quest to help Marty Saybrooke, the women he had raped in college, and was presumed dead after being shot when he was mistaken for Marty's lover, Patrick Thornhart.
While Todd was gone, Blair gave birth to a baby girl, Starr. She then took up with Patrick to get back at Marty and became pregnant by him. By this time Todd had come back from the dead and spied her with Patrick. He was repulsed at her carrying Patrick's baby, but Starr needed a bone marrow transplant and the unborn baby was a match. A few weeks before delivery, Blair and Patrick were slammed into head-on by another car driven by Blair's cousin Kelly, and Blair lost the baby. ). Blair woke up long enough to cast Todd from her life, then had a severe stroke. While recuperating, she lost custody of Starr to Todd.
Blair, desperate for money for a lawyer, tried to steal The Sun newspaper from Todd with the help of Ian Armitage and Max. She also tried to woo Ian for his millions, but he loved Kelly. Then Ian was killed in a plane crash. Blair tried steal Kelly's inheritance from Ian but later gave the money back. Around this time, she and Todd decided to share custody of Starr. Blair went back to work for Todd as a reporter at The Sun and decided to go by the name 'Blair Cramer'. She seemed to be in a healthy relationship with Sam Rappaport, when she and Max got trapped in a wine cellar and made love. Max then betrayed her by spying on her for money. She dumped him and went back to Sam for a while, but Sam dumped her due to her deceiving him about Todd faking split personalities. Max eventually won her forgiveness.
Blair started having fainting spells, but refused to go to the doctor. Max finally convinced her to go by agreeing to have an MRI at the same time she did. Blair's problem turned out to be only an allergy, but they learned that Max had an aneurysm. Blair tried numerous times to have Max see a doctor, but he refused. All he wanted to do was to get enough money to secure his children's future, so he and Blair came up with a plan to make Asa and Renee believe he was their long-lost son. Renee found out the truth and Blair worried that she would tell Asa. Blair also worried about Max, who had an operation after his aneurysm burst and had been acting strangely ever since.
A few months passed and Blair found out Max was sleeping with Skye Chandler and faking his brain damage. She tried to get revenge by destroying Max and Asa using the company B&B United, which she formed with Ben Davidson. But Blair didn't leave Max until Todd Manning showed up back in town. Just as Blair had started to forgive Max for sleeping with Skye and they were reconciling, Todd made sure that Max found out about Blair's plot against him. Max threw Blair out and she went crazy, literally "seeing red" and shot Max in the back. Todd helped Blair hide the evidence of the crime and pinned the blame on Skye. Blair accepted Todd's marriage proposal and they made love. Todd rushed Blair's divorce through by bribing a judge and the couple planned to marry in the near future.
But Max set them up, making it appear that Blair slept with him the night before the wedding by drugging her and making sure that Todd saw them together. Todd didn't let on that he thought Blair cheated on him until the wedding itself, when he announced to everyone that he couldn't marry Blair because she'd shot her last husband in the back. Blair was stunned at Todd's betrayal and couldn't understand why Todd would do this. She later forced Max, at gunpoint, to tell her what he had done. Blair went to Todd to tell him the truth, but it was too late. Todd had already made a deal with the DA and had turned in the clothes she wore the night of the shooting in return for a deal where he got no jail time. Blair was arrested for shooting Max and was put in jail. Blair lied and told Max that she was pregnant with his child in the hope that he would testify on her behalf to keep her and the baby out of jail. What Blair didn't know was that she really was pregnant, which was discovered when Max dragged her to the hospital for a pregnancy test. Max did agree to testify on her behalf, but Starr locked him in Asa's wine cellar on the day of the hearing so he never made it there. Instead, Todd testified that Blair was totally out of her mind the day that she shot Max. The judge sent Blair to St. Ann's instead of to jail and she saw her mother there. After talking with Addie, Blair realized that Todd had actually been trying to help her by keeping her out of jail. Blair wondered if she should try again to tell Todd the truth.
Blair went back to Max and they planned on marrying since Blair believed she was carrying Max's baby. But Blair found out the child was actually Todd's. Blair flew down to Mexico to have the child, since she was afraid Todd would take the baby away the way he took Starr. But Todd followed her to Mexico. There, Todd delivered her baby, since no one else was around. Todd thought it was Max's and arranged for Paloma Sanchez, the woman who owned the hacienda, to "get rid" of the child. The child was given to David Vickers, who took the baby and gave it to a rich couple in Texas.
Todd told Blair the baby had died, and Blair initially did not tell Todd the baby had been his. When Blair admitted the truth, Todd brought the baby home, telling her it was an "adopted" child. Gabrielle Medina, whom Blair hated, found out the child was alive, and blackmailed Todd into giving her a job. Blair thought that Gabrielle was blackmailing him because Todd had gone through some illegal procedures in adopting their baby. But Todd's deception was discovered when baby Jack developed aplastic anemia, just like Starr had, and Todd had to bring Alex Olanov to town to be the bone marrow donor. Sam, learning from Nora that Alex had been Starr's bone marrow donor too, put everything together and told Blair the truth, that Jack was her biological son that Todd had told her was dead.
Blair was furious with Todd. She hired bodyguards to keep Todd away from the baby and she and Sam secretly took the family away to Hawaii to get away from Todd. But the bodyguards were working for Todd and he followed them to Hawaii and planned to kidnap the kids. However, he ran into Téa Delgado, who warned Blair about Todd's plans. Blair brought Starr and Jack safely back to Llanview, while Todd was stranded on the island. She then decided to repay Sam for his help by getting his "true love", Nora, back for him by seducing Troy MacIver and making Nora break up with Troy.
Blair's planned failed and Troy and Nora found out what she had been trying to do. Sam was angry at first, but then forgave her because she only did it to try to help him. Sam and Blair grew closer during Todd's absence and she began to depend on him more and more.He helped her through signing her divorce papers from Todd. When Todd returned to town, Blair was worried that he would try to steal her children again and called the police when she found him alone with Jack, but she struggled with her feelings about Todd.
Blair ran an expose of a mob family in The Sun, which brought death threats against her. She didn't take them very seriously until one day in the park, her daughter's nanny, Suzanne, was shot and killed by a hitman who thought she was Blair. The hitman came face to face with Blair when she rushed to Suzanne's side, but the sound of approaching sirens caused the hitman to flee. Blair was taken to a local police station, where Sam, Cassie and Todd went to see her. They came up with a plan to protect her: they would tell everyone she had lost her mind and was sent to a clinic in Switzerland, but in reality she went to stay in Todd's penthouse where she could hide and still be with her children. Sam and Blair grew closer, but eventually she realized that Todd was the only one she really loved. After Todd saved Blair from the hitman, who was arrested, Blair and Todd admitted their feelings for each other and Todd surprised Blair by calling Andrew Carpenter to come over and marry them right away. But Sam was suspicious about Todd "saving" Blair and decided to investigate further into Suzanne's death. During the middle of Todd and Blair's marriage ceremony, Sam showed up at the penthouse with a very much alive Suzanne in tow and interrupted the wedding.
Blair moved back into the Cramer mansion and recoiled from Todd's latest betrayal. She demanded that he stay away from her and their children. Soon after, the reprehensible Mitch Laurence attempted to kidnap Starr in order to have a hold over Todd. Blair caught him in the middle of the act and begged him to take her instead. He did, chaining her up in an abandoned theatre. Todd rescued her, but she was still ambivalent about their relationship. Before she could come to a decision, Todd mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, her confidante and close friend Sam Rappaport was shot and killed while watching over a sleeping Blair. After initial speculation towards Todd, the blame shifted to Blair. Blair sensed immediately that Mitch was involved. Frustrated beyond the breaking point, Blair knocked Mitch out, dragged him to Llanfair and planned to shoot him as payback for all he'd done to her and Todd, but a just-back-in-town Dorian stopped her. Blair was cleared when she, Troy MacIver and the cops realized that Mitch must have manipulated unstable Lindsay Rappaport into killing Sam, because she thought he was Troy. Lindsay confessed and was sent to St. Ann's. Dorian (whose only reason for marrying Mitch was to bring him down and get his money) and Blair worked with her to kidnap and use Jessica as bait for Mitch. Mitch fell off a cliff while attempting to get her back.
Blair breathed easy for a brief moment, and had Todd legally declared dead to free up his funds. She learned she would co-own the Sun with Viki and act as editor-in-chief until Starr was in her 20's. She also turned down Troy's romantic overtures. Blair was jarred when a mysterious stranger showed up in town claiming to be Mitch's brother, Walker Lawrence. Blair and Dorian both took a shine to him and Blair agreed to make him a reporter at The Sun. Blair found herself the prime suspect in yet another murder when Mitch was killed days after his arrest.
Jessica was discovered to be the killer, but she was not prosecuted after Walker came to her defense. Walker and Blair grew closer and closer. Blair was also being pursued by Kelly's husband, Kevin Buchanan. Not wanting to break up their marriage or give in to her lust for him, Blair flung herself into a relationship with Walker. Walker surprised her by rushing a wedding. She initially hesitated, but finally agreed. Todd was finally gone from her life, she felt...not realizing that Todd was standing right beside her! After being brutally beaten and left near-death by Mitch's goons, Todd convinced doctors to make him over to resemble Mitch's brother, Walker. As Mitch hadn't seen Walker in several years, Todd fooled him, along with all of Llanview. Kevin was the first to discover the secret, but kept quiet for Blair's sake. When Blair realized Todd's scheme, all hell broke loose. She refused to let him near their children and divorced him. Extremely drunk on New Year's Eve 2003, Blair had a sleazy roll in the sheets with Kevin. Disgusted with herself, she prepared to leave the Palace Hotel. Todd spotted her, realized what her rumpled clothes meant, and followed her back to her room.
A short time later, Todd fled. Blair claimed she had been raped. She filed charges as well as custody papers. Throughout the trial, Todd went easy on her, and Blair stuck to her story, even as old nemesis Marty returned to town to testify and said she felt Todd was innocent. Soon after Todd was convicted, Blair passed out. She was suffering from a brain tumor! She realized that she may have been wrong about what happened that night with Todd. Todd got a retrial due to a juror's hearing aid not working, and Blair pondered changing her story, not knowing of Todd's plan to tear her credibility and life to shreds. After a fire at the community center, Blair finally realized she still loved Todd, and the two again began to plan their lives together.
Todd disappeared on the eve of their wedding, leaving Blair devastated. At first she was furious with herself for falling for his lies again, but it wasn't long before she realized he was kidnapped by an insane Margaret Cochran. Blair set out to rescue Todd, but ended up being taken prisoner herself. She thought she had been rescued when Asa appeared, but Asa was still angry about Blair and Todd trying to take his home from him a few months earlier. Asa had her committed to a mental institution, where Todd found her as she was standing on a window ledge. He took her back to Llanview, where a newly nervous Blair has spent most of her time in their apartment, bonding with new next door neighbor Ginger Foley, and trying to help Todd get over being raped by Margaret.
Blair got to meet new doctor in town, Spencer Truman, when Jack needed to have an emergency tracheotomy performed. Blair and Spencer became fast friends, and their friendship helped her deal with Todd's arrest for the murders of Margaret Cochran and their unborn child. She and Todd eventually split over her growing belief that Todd had committed the murders, which also strained her relationship with her daughter Starr, who believed Todd was completely innocent. Blair and Spencer eventually became lovers, but Blair couldn't let Todd out of her heart, and was heartbroken when he wouldn't speak to her shortly before his execution. Blair watched as Todd was executed for the murders of Margaret Cochran and their infant son, and was as shocked as everyone else to learn Margaret was alive and well. Todd was brought back to life. Blair felt horrible for believing, even for a moment, that Todd had been guilty, and begged him to forgive her.
Todd refused to forgive Blair, but Blair refused to give up on Todd. Determined to prove her love and loyalty, she embarked on a plan to prove that Spencer was the one behind everything. While Blair was searching for incriminating evidence against Spencer, he was falling more in love with Blair and even proposed to her in front of everyone. She accepted his proposal and used it as an opportunity to get closer to him for more evidence. Eventually, after having gathered enough evidence against him, Blair turned over the evidence to the police and Spencer was arrested. Blair immediately went back to Todd and they reconciled long enough to make love and for Blair to propose to Todd. He declined her offer stating that he couldn't forget the time she spent with Spencer.
At Spencer's trial, Blair passed out and was rushed to the hospital. She delayed the tests as long as she could as she believed that her brain tumor had returned, but it turned out that she was pregnant! Blair was horrified at the chance that she was carrying Spencer Truman's baby and immediately had a paternity test. The test came back and it was confirmed that the baby was Todd's.
As Spencer was transported to the prison, Todd had the truck stopped and kidnapped Spencer. He then proceeded to hold him hostage and torture him for information on the whereabouts of his son. Blair found out where Todd was holding Spencer and went to him and somehow got in the middle of a fight between the two men and was pushed off the roof of a warehouse. She was rushed to the hospital and went into surgery immediately. Upon waking up in the hospital, Todd broke the news to Blair that she had lost her baby. Blair told Todd that the baby was his and the two grieved for their child together. Todd, finally realizing what he wanted in life, asked Blair to marry him… again. This time, Blair said no to him. Spencer, who was also in the hospital, had become clearly delusional and saw visions of Blair in his hospital room. He eventually killed his lawyer and escaped from his room and went to Blair's. He drugged her and then started his "wedding" he had planned. Just as he was about to rape Blair, someone came into the room and killed Spencer.
Throughout his time of need, Todd had been slowly getting closer and closer to his friend, Evangeline. This was making Blair extremely jealous. Cristian, Evangeline's ex-boyfriend, and Blair erroneously believed that Todd and Evangeline slept together, and they exacted their revenge by sleeping together as well. This strained Todd and Blair's relationship even more. Todd got a tip from Miles' that his son was in Chicago, and he and Blair went to the Windy City to find the toddler. Promising to do all the searching together, Todd took another tip from a woman at an adoption agency and went off to find his son without Blair. Once she woke up and found that Todd was missing, Blair made it her mission to find Todd. Months later, Blair finally got an anonymous call from Chicago saying that Todd was injured but still alive. She flew to him immediately but he had been moved back to Llanview by his captors. Finally, Blair found Todd, who had been set up in a sleazy motel with a hooker. Blair brought to the hospital and stood by his side throughout his recovery.
In 2007, Blair remarried Todd for the fifth time, in exchange for $5 million, to help his bid to win custody of his biological son Sam Manning (then known as "Tommy McBain"). Todd's child with Margaret Cochran, Sam had been kidnapped by Todd's nemesis Dr. Spencer Truman shortly after birth and had been presumed dead. His son's existence revealed, Todd was desperate to take him back from his adopted parents, Dr. Michael and Marcie McBain. Todd was awarded custody, but Marcie fled Llanview with the child. After Marcie was found and Todd was given the baby, Todd re-named him Sam and he and Blair brought Sam home to Llanview. Blair initially struggled to adjust as the surrogate mother to Todd's baby with another woman and was unsure whether she would be able to raise Sam as her own. Blair admitted her issues to Todd, who told Blair he loved her and wanted a real marriage with her.
However, the marriage quickly unraveled in 2008 after it was discovered that Starr had sex with Cole Thornhart, the son of the woman Todd raped in college. Starr and Cole run away but are later found by Blair, John and Todd. Todd punched Cole and accidentally pushed Starr down the stairs. Blair then discovered that Starr was pregnant and got a court to issue a restraining order against Todd, to keep him away from his children.
In May 2008, Blair was awarded custody of Sam after Todd and Sam were in a car crash and Todd failed to put Sam in a car seat. Todd had divorce papers drawn up and delivered to Blair, who signed them in July 2008. In August 2008, Todd took Blair back to court to win back custody of Sam but was denied. The judge said Todd could try again in another year.
Blair tried to move on with her life without Todd and found her friendship with John grow into a romantic relationship. The two tried to keep things casual at first, but both found themselves becoming more attached with each other. Blair's relationship with John became strained after John broke into Todd's home and discovered that Marty was alive and living with Todd, unaware that he was the man who had raped her back in college. Blair at first tried hard to be understanding about what Marty had been through, and sympathized with Marty for being kept from her son and lied to by Todd. But Blair soon grew jealous of the time John spent looking after Marty, who still had no memory of her old life and was struggling to readjust. John assured her that he had no interest in Marty, but Marty's mere presence began to drive a wedge between John and Blair.
John offered to take Blair away for a quiet vacation on St. Blaze's, the island once owned by Asa Buchanan, but Blair said she couldn't leave her family behind. Instead, she and John planned a romantic evening for New Year's Eve at Rodi's Tavern, which John had just purchased after resigning from the police force. But then John was called away by Cole after Marty turned up missing. Marty had begun to research everything about Todd's life, and John figured out that she was planning to lure Todd into some sort of trap. He tracked Marty down at the Palace Hotel, where she had booked a room, but neither Marty or Todd were there. Blair got fed up waiting for John and went to the Palace Hotel on her own. Blair and Todd's ex-wife Tea Delgado were arguing outside when they heard a splash and realized that someone had jumped from the roof of the hotel and into the river below. John jumped in and pulled the man to safety, only to discover it was Todd. Blair gave Todd CPR and revived him. Marty, who had goaded Todd into jumping from the roof, hissed at John and Blair for rescuing him.
John began exhibiting his own jealousy issues, wondering if Blair saved Todd because she couldn't stand to live without him. But Blair insisted she only saved him because she didn't want her children to grow up without a father. But their relationship continued to be strained by Marty, who used a new friendship with former Navy SEAL Wes Granger to make John jealous. Marty confessed to John that she was drawn to him but didn't want to get closer to him, and John responded by telling Marty to "forget about Blair." Blair overheard the conversation and later told Marty to back off. Blair attempted to push Marty into the very river that Todd had jumped into, only Blair ended up taking the plunge. When Marty tried to help her out, Blair dragged her in.
John took Blair to the Go Red Ball but after a melee between Todd and Wes, who took out a knife and held it to Todd's throat, John publicly accused Wes of killing Janet Ketring, the nurse who had treated Marty and was found stabbed to death in Todd's home. Blair, stung once again by the attention John was paying to Marty, proceeded to get so drunk she was unable to drive home. Todd took her back to his place, and Blair was horrified to wake up in bed the next morning next to Todd - albeit fully clothed. Marty, meanwhile, woke up to find Wes lying next to her, stabbed to death with his own knife. John busted into the room when he heard Marty screaming, and Marty said she didn't remember what had happened. John believed her and was reluctant to call the cops. But when Blair walked in on the scene, she called the cops and Marty was taken into custody and arrested for the murder. When Blair later found John back at the scene of the crime, searching for anything that could free Marty, Blair told him that he was still in love with Marty and broke up with him. Blair later called the sleazy tabloid, The National Intruder, and provided them a photo of a blood-soaked Marty that she had taken with her cell phone. John was livid to learn what Blair had done and had it out with her, but their anger turned to passion and they ended up in bed, ready to make love. They were interrupted by Marty, who called John's cell phone because she was worried about Cole, whom she had discovered was abusing drugs and flunking out of school. John went after Marty, and Blair told him to not ever come back. As Blair was taking a shower, someone snuck into her room and stabbed her multiple times. Dorian and then Todd showed up and found her clinging to life, and Dorian accused Todd of doing the crime. As Blair was in the hospital recovering from her injuries, Todd went to court to get custody of his children. Following advice from Téa, who had been hired by Dorian, Blair and John got married in the hospital room so John could be presented in court as the children's loving step-father. Although Todd told the judge that the marriage was a sham, the court agreed to give John custody of the children. Later Todd returned to court and won back custody of his kids. When Blair heard the news, she checked herself out of the hospital and went to Todd's house, insisting on staying there with her children. Todd, Blair and Téa were all at Todd's house when they received invitations to a "spring fling reunion" and promptly collapsed from the laced invitations. They woke up at the KAD house, where Powell Lord had reconstructed the room in which Marty was raped in a twisted attempt to make Todd pay for his crimes.
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