LOS ANGELES -- Vicki Morgan, the mistress of President Reagan's late friend Alfred Bloomingdale, claimed Tuesday she worked in the president's campaign and shared Bloomingdale's intimate knowledge of the administration.
'Alfred told me about his judgments concerning Reagan's appointments, the Reagan Cabinet and his role in Reagan's 'kitchen cabinet,'' Miss Morgan stated in documents filed in Superior Court in support of her $10 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale's estate.
She hopes to counter claims by Mrs. Bloomingdale that the affair was based entirely on sex and the agreements were 'contracts for prostitution' by proving she was Bloomingdale's confidante.
'Alfred continuously confided in me by telling his private opinions about influential and important people with whom he was intimately involved, such as Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
'He told me about his involvement in secret and delicate matters such as campaign contributions for Mr. Reagan,' Miss Morgan said under oath. 'Alfred asked me to work in the main Reagan campaign headquarters and I did so.'
Asked for comment, a White House aide would only say: 'Millions of people worked for the Reagan campaign.'
In her deposition, Miss Morgan claimed she became pregnant in 1971 and, despite Bloomingdale's wish she have his child, had an abortion in November of that year.
In Washington, a White House spokesman confirmed earlier that a presidential aide met unofficially with Miss Morgan's attorney, Marvin Mitchelson, to discuss the palimony suit.
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan aide Morgan Mason, son of actor James Mason and an acquaintance of Mitchelson's, intervened in the case on his own initiative because 'he had strong personal feelings on it and wanted to express them to the attorney.'
Speakes said Mason and his family are 'longtime social friends' of Mitchelson and the political aide was not acting on behalf of the White House when he met with Michelson in August, before Bloomingdale's death.
'Mitchelson was in town, they agreed to have dinner, Mitchelson came to the White House and the two met,' Speakes said. 'Morgan prefaced that he was not speaking officially in his position as a White House staff member, discussed the Mitchelson involvement in the lawsuit with the attorney.'
Mason said his meeting with Mitchelson was not prompted by the White House and 'if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't have met with him.'
Bloomingdale, a California businessman and heir to the department store fortune, died of cancer Aug. 20. His wife, Betsy, is one of Nancy Reagan's closest friends.
Miss Morgan said she had an affair with Bloomingdale for 12 years, providing therapy to help him 'overcome his Marquis de Sade complex' and acting as his traveling companion and confidante. In return, she said, Bloomingdale promised her support for life.
Bloomingdale's wife, Betsy, stopped support payments of $18,000 a month to Miss Morgan and asked a court to dismiss the suit.
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