Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...posh salons of Bel Air and Beverly Hills, the hors d'oeuvres are being passed around with tidbits of the spiciest scandal to hit Tinseltown in a long time. The titillating topic: the double life of the late multimillionaire Alfred Bloomingdale. His paramour of twelve years, Vicki Morgan, 30, is suing his estate for lifetime support of at least $5 million. His socialite wife Betsy claims that Morgan was paid for sexual services and is entitled to nothing more. Says Los Angeles Times Society Editor Jody Jacobs: "It's caused a real stir...
...Alfred Bloomingdale apparently also liked to walk on the wild side. He met Morgan in 1970, when the tall, svelte blond was an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. She was married at the time, with a son born out of wedlock, but her circumstances did not discourage Bloomingdale. He promised to make her a movie star. In a 234-page deposition, parts of which have been made public in other court papers, Morgan says that she and Bloomingdale became intimate at their third meeting, supposedly in an encounter that also involved two other women. After that...
Bloomingdale's other life came to light as he lay dying. In June he entered the hospital and his support payments to Morgan, then totaling $18,000 a month, suddenly stopped. Morgan charges that the money was cut off by Betsy Bloomingdale, who had known of the affair since at least 1974, when Morgan filed suit against Bloomingdale during a temporary falling out. Morgan promptly sued for fulfillment of financial commitments that Bloomingdale had made in three letters and of his oral promises of lifetime support. Bloomingdale thought of her, she contends, as his "other wife." Betsy...
...tawdry tale has proved a minor embarrassment for the White House. In her court papers, Morgan alleged that Bloomingdale's satin pillow talk included details of how he got campaign contributions for Reagan. She also told a newspaper interviewer that Betsy first learned of her husband's infidelity from Nancy Reagan, which was emphatically denied by a Reagan aide. The White House's discomfiture rose even higher when it was disclosed that Marvin Mitchelson, the well-known palimony lawyer who briefly represented Morgan, had discussed the case with Morgan Mason, special assistant to the President. Mitchelson says...
Whatever the outcome of her lawsuit, Vicki Morgan will probably come out ahead, at least in monetary terms. Agents reportedly have approached her about a book, a TV docudrama and a film. Says Attorney Paul Caruso, who handled Morgan's 1974 suit: "Vicki's a smart, tough cookie...