Vicki

J. Milton, A. Bardach

Vicki Morgan was an unusually attractive teenager, neither more nor less intelligent than most, but filled with dreams of becoming a cover girl or a movie star. She was picked up by Alfred Bloomingdale, scion of the department-store family, an instrumental figure in the rise of the Diner's Club credit card business and a member of Ronald Reagan's so-called Kitchen Cabinet (Bloomingdale's wife, Betsy, was Nancy Reagan's good friend). He began by introducing Vicki to the sadomasochistic orgies he favored, according to the authors, but their relationship subsequently took a more conventional turn, and he bound her to him with large amounts of money. When Betsy Bloomingdale cut this money off, Vicki instituted a palimony suit, but Alfred died, and then she herself was murdered. The last 100 pages of this volume is about the trial and conviction of her supposed killer, her homosexual roommate and self-described "little slave" and friend Marvin Pancoast.