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Relationships: Sierra Merteuil

Appearances: Season 5

Who’d Play Him: Colton Haynes

The Boy Who Brought Trouble Home: Hunt Roberts was a wealthy Ivy League prepster who became involved with Sierra Merteuil while she was living in New York. Handsome, privileged, and outwardly polished, Hunt appeared to be the kind of boyfriend Renee Merteuil might have preferred for her daughter. Beneath that respectable image, however, he was connected to the drug use that had begun consuming Sierra’s life.

When Sierra returned to Los Angeles with Hunt, her family quickly discovered that she had developed a serious drug habit and had been expelled from school. Benji Rydell immediately blamed Hunt for her decline and pleaded with Sierra to leave him. Sierra rejected Benji’s interference, defending her new relationship and refusing to return to the emotional chaos they had shared.

Hunt’s presence intensified Benji’s jealousy and gave his old boarding-school friend Duke Summerfield an opportunity to manipulate him. Duke agreed to help Benji separate Sierra from Hunt in exchange for Benji’s assistance against Jeff Branigan, a local drug dealer involved with Summer Solomon. What began as romantic rivalry soon drew Hunt into the dangerous world surrounding Jeff and his twin brother, Joba.

At Magnum Rainer’s birthday party, Sierra was secretly drugged and suffered a terrifying reaction. Jeff was killed after Benji confronted him over what had happened. Renee, furious over Sierra’s addiction and convinced that Hunt had helped lead her daughter into drugs, asked Benji to make him pay.

Benji responded by framing Hunt as an informant who had betrayed Joba. The accusation placed Hunt in immediate danger from men who had no interest in determining whether it was true. Joba arranged for Hunt to disappear, and he was never seen again.

Hunt may have contributed to Sierra’s descent into addiction, but he never had the opportunity to answer for it or defend himself against Benji’s lie. His fate was decided by resentment, grief, and a fabricated accusation delivered to people willing to kill first and ask questions later.

Hunt entered Los Angeles as Sierra’s sophisticated new boyfriend and quickly became a target in Benji’s obsession with winning her back. Whatever his own faults, his disappearance demonstrated how easily the privileged young people surrounding Sierra could turn jealousy into violence—and how quickly someone could be erased once Benji decided he stood in the way.