17 Facts About Marco Dane

Marco Dane is a fictional character from the American soap opera One Life to Live.

In 1977, Karen Wolek, fiancee to Llanview Hospital chief of staff Dr Larry Wolek, is planning for her impending nuptials when ex-boyfriend Marco Dane arrives in Llanview.

Karen and Larry marry without Marco Dane divulging Karen's secret past, while Marco Dane planned to blackmail her into another business venture instead.

Marco Dane engages in constant schadenfreude in Karen's anxiety over the possibility of the con man telling Larry of all the sordid details of their prior criminal behavior.

When Marco Dane publishes the photos of Tina, a livid Viki confronts a nonchalant Marco Dane who concedes to none of Viki's accusations.

Marco Dane and Karen, now friends again, went about switching the sickly-and-soon-dead body of Karen's niece with the live-born child of Katrina when Karen goes into visit the nursery of newborn children.

Emotionally disturbed with leading a double life, Marco Dane suffers a bout of selective amnesia, which prompts Karen to commit Marco Dane into a sanatorium.

Marco Dane is later shot in a confrontation with Ted, who is shot dead by Llanview Police Commissioner Ed Hall.

Unable to sever ties with Edwina, Marco Dane engages in a love triangle between his ex-wife and new romance and sister of Jenny's ex-husband, Samantha Vernon.

Marco Dane returned in 1989, meeting Viki's daughter, actress and multiple-personality sufferer Megan Gordon, masquerading as alter-ego "Ruby Bright".

Clint divulges to Marco Dane that Ruby was a figment of Megan's personality and the two collaborated in causing Megan to reemerge from her latest bout of mental illness.

Marco Dane departs Llanview in 1990 after serving as Megan's manager.

Now a private investigator, Marco Dane arrives in Port Charles in 1992, much to the intriguing delight of heiress Tracy Quartermaine Hornsby, who was in the middle of marital woes.

Tracy engaged in an extramarital romance while hiring Marco Dane to investigate the mistress of her husband, Jenny Eckert, a distant cousin of Luke Spencer.

An incensed Sonny puts a hit out on Jagger in retaliation, only to put the plan on indefinite hold at the insistence of Marco Dane, who urges him to cancel the planned killing in return for a cut of Jagger's boxing winnings.

Marco Dane nearly persuaded Tracy to run off with him with a large cut of Quartermaine money but she left him with blank paper and went alone.

Marco Dane worked briefly for Frank Smith along with Luke Spencer and Sonny Corinthos before leaving town in 1993.