Occupation: Socialite

Parents: Jonas Lamont and Midge Temple

Children: David Jennings

Relationships: Nathan Blackthorne, Royce Jennings, James Blackthorne

Appearances: Seasons 4 – 6

Who’d Play Her: Jaclyn Smith

The Heiress Who Came to Collect: Jacqueline “Jackie” Lamont was the daughter of legendary filmmaker Jonas Lamont and heir to one of old Hollywood’s most powerful dynasties. Raised around wealth, celebrity, and the stars her father created, Jackie grew up believing that the Lamont name entitled her to a permanent place at the center of Hollywood. As a young woman, she became the great love of Nathan Blackthorne’s life, but their relationship ended and she later married hotel magnate Royce Jennings. Their son, David, inherited both the Lamont connection to Hollywood and the Jennings talent for international business.

Jackie remained outside the Blackthornes’ immediate circle for years, quietly nursing the belief that Nathan and James had taken advantage of Jonas’s death. In her eyes, Sunset Studios and the Blackthorne mansion rightfully belonged to the Lamont family. When James fell deeply into debt, Jackie secretly purchased his twenty-five-million-dollar loan and returned to Los Angeles prepared to call it in. Her plan would have stripped James of both his studio and his home, but David paid the debt himself, saving James while becoming a partial owner of Sunset Studios.

Refusing to surrender her claim, Jackie looked for other ways to rebuild her power. She discovered that Marilee Walker had once given birth to Will Thomerson’s child and used the secret to blackmail her into surrendering her shares of Merteuil Industries. With the additional stock, Jackie seized control of Renee DeWitt’s company, transforming a private tragedy into a business weapon. Renee’s attempts to reclaim her empire sparked a fierce rivalry between two women equally unwilling to be intimidated.

Jackie’s feelings toward Brooke Taylor were far more hostile. She resented discovering that Royce had fathered another child, viewing Brooke as an intrusion upon the family and a rival to David’s inheritance. Her anger intensified when she learned that Brooke stood to benefit from David’s estate if his illness proved fatal. During a conversation with Bryan Carlson, Jackie bitterly remarked that she wished Brooke were no longer around. Bryan interpreted the comment as permission to act and promised to take care of the problem.

Believing he could clear Brooke from David’s will and eventually seize David’s fortune for himself, Bryan used his connections to the Acapulco drug cartel to orchestrate the attack on the House of Palms location shoot. Several cast and crew members were murdered, while Brooke, Kyle, Stormy, and others were kidnapped. Jackie was horrified when she realized that her careless expression of resentment had helped set the massacre in motion. Although she had not explicitly ordered Brooke’s death, she had knowingly shared her hatred with a man ruthless enough to make it a reality.

As the crisis unfolded, Jackie became convinced that Bryan had taken her complaint literally and engineered the kidnappings to remove Brooke from David’s will. Her inadvertent involvement forced her to help expose Bryan’s dealings with cartel figure Ricardo Pacheco. Yet even after the hostages were rescued and Bryan was killed while attempting to silence her, Jackie manipulated the aftermath to protect herself, presenting her cooperation as heroism rather than admitting that her own words had helped ignite the conspiracy.

The cartel retaliated by taking Brett, Miranda, and Eddie hostage aboard a yacht. Jackie personally boarded the vessel and disabled one of the armed men, giving Brett the opportunity to overpower another. Bryan later confronted Jackie at Merteuil and attempted to kill her before an FBI agent shot him. Rather than accept responsibility for her role in the scandal, Jackie secured a position in Washington and staged a press conference presenting herself as one of the heroes who had helped dismantle the cartel. She left Los Angeles with her reputation largely intact.

Jackie later returned as the secret financial power behind Mason Stone’s attempt to destroy Moonshadows. Mason and contractor Chip Matthews sabotaged the resort’s marina project, contaminated its water with arsenic, and drove the property into bankruptcy so it could be acquired through a dummy corporation. Jackie intended to exploit the oil reserves beneath the land. When the contamination became public, she immediately distanced herself from Mason and arranged for him to absorb the blame. After drilling permits were denied and Renee confronted her over the loss of Moonshadows, Jackie donated the land to the government rather than endure further scandal.

Her relationship with Nathan eventually brought Jackie back to the emotional world she had left decades earlier. Despite his crimes, scandals, and destructive history, she remained drawn to the man her father had helped make famous. They ultimately married, though the relationship was hardly conventional. By the end of the series, Jackie and Nathan chose to remain husband and wife while maintaining separate residences, preserving their bond without surrendering their independence.