Marilyn Sutton (Castle)

Marilyn Sutton (Lola Glaudini) is the main villainess from "Limelight," episode 6.13 of Castle (airdate January 20, 2014). She is the mother of 22-year-old pop star Mandy Sutton, who was believed to have been found dead in an alley. However, as Marilyn herself revealed when she saw the body at the station, the body was not Mandy, but Claire Samuels, a woman Mandy paid to stand in for her.
Alive and well, Mandy had moved on from a fractured relationship with Jesse Jones and into a more stable romance with Zach Benton. Instead of being happy for her daughter's stability, however, Marilyn saw Zach as a threat to Mandy's lifestyle, which she wanted to keep going for her own benefit. The scheming villainess decided to break up the couple; paying Claire to pose as Mandy and romantically engage with Jesse, and later used a burner phone to contact a photographer to take pictures of them in a club together. Marilyn's plan succeeded in breaking up Mandy and Zach, but hit a snag when Claire wanted to come clean out of guilt. Not wanting her scheme exposed, the evil Marilyn lured Claire to an alley before bludgeoning her to death.
Marilyn was revealed as Claire's killer, much to Mandy's shock and horror, when Beckett dialed the burner phone--as Castle correctly stated that the killer didn't get rid of the phone. After hearing her mother's phone ring, Mandy confronted Marilyn regarding her actions, which Marilyn defended by claiming that Zach and Claire were ruining everything they worked for. Marilyn was arrested and handcuffed by Beckett, while claiming that she did it all for Mandy.
== Trivia ==
* Lola Glaudini also played villainess Leanne Baker on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, as well as the evil Anna Vayakovsky on Blue Bloods.
* Marilyn Sutton is similar to CSI: Miami villainess Melanie Nichols, as both were mothers of young female stars who wanted out of the limelight, leading to these villainous mothers resorting to murder to keep living off their daughters' fame. In addition, their murder victims were stand-ins for their daughters, but one difference is that Melanie had an accomplice in her murderous quest; Marilyn directly killed her victim.
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