Background
Born into great wealth in New York City, Alfred was the son of Rosalind (née Schiffer) and Hiram Bloomingdale, and the grandson of a co-founder of the famous department store, Lyman G. Bloomingdale.
Born into great wealth in New York City, Alfred was the son of Rosalind (née Schiffer) and Hiram Bloomingdale, and the grandson of a co-founder of the famous department store, Lyman G. Bloomingdale.
Bloomingdale attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was a member of the football team as well as Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Upsilon chapter).
In 1951, he merged his company with 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. Alfred South. Bloomingdale died of throat cancer in 1982 in Santa Monica, California, aged 66.
He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
While in Los Angeles, 54-year-old Alfred Bloomingdale began an affair with 18-year-old Vicki Morgan. Foreign 12 years, Bloomingdale kept her in a luxurious apartment, showering her with expensive clothing, jewelry, and cars.
Soon after, the affair with Vicki Morgan made headline news as its unsubstantiated and sordid details, which included allegations of sado-masochistic activities instigated by Bloomingdale, were made public after Morgan filed a multimillion-dollar palimony lawsuit against Bloomingdale"s estate. The case against Bloomingdale"s estate was quickly dismissed by the courts.
Morgan eventually moved into a low-rent 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 battalion