Vicki Morgan
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Vicki Morgan (August 9, 1952–July 7, 1983) was a model and a high-profile murder victim. She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California.
Born Victoria Lynn Morgan, Morgan was a stunningly beautiful girl who went to Hollywood in search of fame. She found work as an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theater and it was there that the teenager met 54-year-old Reagan-financier Alfred S. Bloomingdale, a married multi-millionaire from the famous New York City department store family.
Morgan soon became Bloomingdale's mistress, benefiting from his generosity with a lavish lifestyle that lasted until 1982 when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. With Bloomingdale on his deathbed and his usual flow of funds to the now 30-year-old Morgan no longer coming, her financial situation quickly turned desperate. To protect herself, she hired the famous Hollywood palimony attorney Marvin Mitchelson to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit for financial compensation as his mistress. The trial revealed sordid details of the couples deviant sexual relationship that grabbed headlines nationwide, causing considerable embarrassment amongst the Washington D.C. elite. However, the case was dismissed and Morgan was left without income. Later court testimony revealed that after she began selling off the jewelry and the expensive car purchased for her by Bloomingdale, Morgan was preparing to write a tell-all book which was reportedly going to name a number of wealthy and powerful politicians and businessmen who had participated in her sadistic sex rituals.
To help cover the costs for her expensive apartment, Morgan sublet a room to a 32-year-old homosexual acquaintance named Marvin Pancoast. Three weeks after moving in, Pancoast walked into her bedroom while she was sleeping and beat her to death with a baseball bat. This has fueled many conspiracy theories as to why she was murdered.
The Vicki Morgan story received considerable print coverage and in 1985 author Gordon Basichis wrote Beautiful Bad Girl: The Vicki Morgan Story. In 1990, Dominick Dunne, the prominent Vanity Fair journalist, author of several books about crimes involving the rich and famous and someone whose own 22-year-old daughter Dominique had been murdered, came out with a fictional portrayal of Vicki Morgan in his book, An Inconvenient Woman.
External links
- Eighties Club story (http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id289.htm)