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Year of birth : 1954

Mother : Phyllis Blake

Brothers and Sister : Stan Benson (half-brother), Mack Blake, Summer Blake

Married to : Stockman DeMott (1977-1984), C.C. Capwell (1985, 1986-1987), Keith Timmons (1988), Mason Capwell (1989), Lionel Lockridge (1992-...)

Children : Lily "Light" Blake, Brandon DeMott (adopted), Channing Capwell III

Former known boyfriends : Vic DeAngelo (197?), Hank Judson (198?), Dr. Alex Nikolas (1987), Dr. Scott Clark (1987-1988), Ethan Asher (1989-1990), Craig Hunt (1991), David Raymond (1992)

Professions : Stockman DeMott's secretary, Keith Timmons' secretary, manufacturer of the Mrs Capwell's Chocolate Cookies, owner of the pension Gina's Place, waitress at Howie's Diner, employed at the sperm bank, Lionel Lockridge's secretary, manager of Gina Jeans

Linda Gibboney :
September 20 1984 (# 39) to December 09 1985 (# 347)

Robin Mattson :
December 10 1985 (# 348) to January 15 1993 (# 2137)

Gina's life is certainly one of the more animated of all the Santa Barbara characters. At the same time adept of blackmailing but faithful and sincere in her feelings, Gina arrives in town one fine day of 1984, accompanied by her adoptive son Brandon and her sister Summer. Her husband, Stockman DeMott, had just died and she comes to meet C.C. Capwell who allowed her formerly, by friendship for Stockman, to adopt Brandon. Obviously, the first conflicts starts when she meets Santana Andrade, Brandon's biological mother. She marries C.C. while making him believe that she is pregnant, but Mason discovers the trickery. He then proposes to make her a child in exchange of Brandon's behalf of heritage. But at the crucial time, Gina is surprised by C.C. in bed with Mason. Dismissed from the mansion, she is likely to lose Brandon because of C.C.'s humours. To eliminate the risks, she replaces Santana's medical drugs by hard drug and Santana is locked up in a detoxication center !

At this time arrives in town Lily Light, who turns to be Gina's daughter, born from a rape when she was thirteen. That is her who marries Gina with C.C. in 1986, when Gina steals a video tape clearing Kelly from the murder of Dylan Hartley, which allows her to blackmail C.C.. Whereas C.C. falls into a deep coma after having learned his son Channing Junior's homosexuality, Gina disconnects his life-support system and makes believe Eden she is responsible for the act. When he wakes up, C.C. requires the divorce. Forced by Kirk Cranston, who brought to light her misdeed, to help him to get rid of his wife Eden, Gina feigns to drown herslf in the Capwell boathouse. Then, whereas everyone thinks her dead, Gina is lodged by her dealer Angel Ramirez and with the help of Hayley her beloved niece, she profits of being able to act incognito to avenge herself of Kirk.

Thereafter, Gina meets the Capwells' other enemy of the moment, the new district attorney Keith Timmons, and falls in love with him, even believing at one moment to be pregnant of him. At this time, she finds the trace of Pamela Conrad, C.C.'s former wife, and makes her coming in Santa Barbara. She buys potions to cure her face disfigured by a terrible disease and take her to the Capwell mansion in the purpose of separate C.C. and Sophia. But during a dispute with C.C. at the tribunal, she falls on the floor and wakes up blind. She is nursed by Dr. Scott Clark and begins a love-affair with him until Scott discovers that Gina has hidden her cure to him for several weeks and simulates blindness.

The following year, Gina is still the first to discover that Mason did not died and suffers of split personality. With the assistance of Keith she has just married, she learns to Sonny Sprocket, Mason's new personality, how to speak and act like him. One time desperate after Keith's departure far away from Santa Barbara, she transforms to make money the Lockridge mansion, where she lives now, into a hotel and welcomes the eccentric Bunny Tagliatti. Months later, Gina marries Sonny/Mason to finally gain the Capwell's fortune. But during the ceremony, Lyle DeFranco, payed to allow Gina to be free for Bunny, shoots Mason. Gina's plan then fails. This is only the next year that she finally refinds Keith, but she is not decided to begin again the common life with him.

Meanwhile, Gina has a new passion for the new district attorney, Ethan Asher, then is joined by her mother, Phyllis. But Laura, Ethan's wife, burns the Lockridge mansion when she discovers the love-affair of her husband with Gina. As Phyllis had not sent the cheque for the insurance, Gina loses everything and settles with Brandon in a caravans park in compagny of her brother, Mack. Never without new ideas, she pretends to be blind to have to have more freely access to the Capwell mansion, where she organizes with her mother the exchange of C.C.'s art paintings against falses ones... until she discovers that Lionel Lockridge had the same idea than her ! She then decides to work in common with him, until C.C. understands the stratagem.

In 1990, she refinds Keith, finally back in Santa Barbara, but shows herself reticent to found the family she had always dreamed with him. It is then alone that Gina decides to start a procedure to adopt a child. She obtains a job at the sperm bank of Santa Barbara, steals samples of C.C. and Mason' sperm, and insemines herself with C.C.' sperm. Nine months later is born, in a veterinary clinic, Channing Capwell III. C.C. wants to obtain his guard, but Gina succeeds in getting married by Lionel Lockridge, who adopts the child. All four, with Brandon, live now a new sincere and unbounded happiness...

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