Hilary Michaels, the estranged mother of Amanda Woodward, is the owner, president and CEO of Models Inc, a major Los Angeles modeling agency.

Hilary Michaels, the estranged mother of Amanda Woodward, is the owner, president and CEO of Models Inc., a top Los Angeles modeling agency which, like her ruthless and aggressive daughter on "Melrose Place," she runs with an iron fist in a velvet glove, dealing with all the usual problematic situations with the models and co-workers of the agency, including backstabbing, betrayal, seduction, blackmail, stalking, and other trash on an everyday basis. Even the occasional murder.—matt-282