Kyle Sampson is a fictional character from the

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''.Schemering, Christopher. ''The Soap Opera Encyclopedia''. United States, Ballantine Books, 1988. 133. He was played by

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from 1984 to 1987. Kyle was the result of an affair between

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John Malone and Sally Gleason. He was the President of Sampson Industries which caused him to become an enemy to both

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and Billy Lewis. It was once believed that Kyle was the son of Lewis Oil founder, H.B. Lewis. Kyle was in love with and engaged to Billy and H.B.'s ex-wife

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. Kyle Sampson was once believed to be the biological father of Reva's daughter Marah. But he was the biological father of Ben Reade with his ex-wife Maeve. In 1987 after having left Springfield Kyle had become engaged to a woman named Amy Dupree. Later in that same year Kyle and Amy were involved in a plane crash that killed both Amy and his father John Malone and left Kyle comatose.

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