Alfred S. Bloomingdale

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Alfred S. Bloomingdale
Lyman G. Bloomingdale (grandfather)
Joseph B. Bloomingdale
(great-uncle)

Alfred Schiffer Bloomingdale (April 15, 1916 – August 23, 1982) was an American businessman who launched the

Diners Club, and became known as "father of the credit card." He was an heir to the Bloomingdale's department store fortune and the lover of murdered mistress Vicki Morgan.[1]

Early life and education

Bloomingdale was born to a wealthy

Bloomingdales. Bloomingdale attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,[2] where he was a member of the football team as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Upsilon chapter).[citation needed
]

Career

After school, he worked as a salesman at

Diners Club and joined the rapidly growing business as an executive, becoming chairman of the board of directors in 1964. In 1969, he left Diners Club, acquiring its "International Floatels" division.[2]

Personal life

In 1946, Bloomingdale married

Adelaide, South Australia). Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale had three children:[3][4]

Bloomingdale and his wife Betsy were friends and confidantes of

Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.[citation needed
]

Vicki Morgan affair

In 1970, while in Los Angeles, 54-year-old Alfred Bloomingdale began an affair with 18-year-old

palimony lawsuit against Bloomingdale's estate. Morgan eventually moved into a condominium in the San Fernando Valley where she rented a room to a schizophrenic named Marvin Pancoast, whom she knew from the withdrawal clinic. In July 1983, Pancoast beat her to death with a baseball bat.[1][12]
The courts awarded Morgan $200,000 after her death from Bloomingdale's estate.

Death

Alfred Bloomingdale died of throat cancer in 1982 in Santa Monica, California, aged 66. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Posthumous accusation of attempted rape

In 2017, actress Janis Paige wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter in which she stated that Alfred Bloomingdale had attempted to rape her when she was 22 years old.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Poisoned Passions at Investigation Discovery Archived 2013-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ .
  3. ^ a b Colacello, Bob (July 20, 2016). "Remembering Betsy Bloomingdale, Who Reigned Over Los Angeles Society and Influenced a First Lady". Vanity Fair. In 1946, Betsy married Alfred Bloomingdale, who had come out West to produce movies, and in short order she converted him, as he often said, "from a Jewish Democrat to a Catholic Republican." They had three children: Geoffrey, Lisa Bell, and Robert.
  4. ^ "Two Unerdervalued Diors Get Betsy Bloomingdale in Trouble with the Feds in Los Angeles", people.com, September 13, 1976.
  5. ^ "Geoffrey Bloomingdale Weds Elizabeth Fahr". The New York Times. June 15, 1972. The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Fahr, daughter of Mr. and 'Mrs. Samuel Mehard Fahr of Lima, Peru, and Iowa City, to Geoffrey Bloomingdale took place here this afternoon. Msgr. Benjamin Hawkes performed the ceremony in the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd.
  6. ^ New York Times: "R. McKim Bell, Lawyer, Weds Lisa Bloomingdale" September 22, 1974 | "St. Paul the Apostle Roman Catholic Church was the setting in Los Angeles yesterday afternoon for the marriage of Lisa Bloomingdale to Robert McKim Bell"
  7. Beverly Hills
    , Calif."
  8. ^ Abscher, Kenneth M.; Desch, Michael C.; & Popadiuk, Roman. "The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board", in Johnson, Loch K., ed. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence, p. 182. Oxford University Press, Inc.
  9. ^ Colacello, Bob (May 29, 2009). "Ronnie & Nancy". Vanity Fair.
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  11. ^ Knights of Malta, timesofindia.indiatimes.com; retrieved November 12, 2012.
  12. ^ a b "Dominick Dunne: lost and found" by Mick Brown (October 18, 2008) Telegraph of London
  13. ^ Paige, Janis (October 27, 2017). "Harassment in Hollywood's Golden Age: Survivor Janis Paige's Firsthand Story". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 28, 2017.