LOS ANGELES -- The mistress of President Reagan's late friend Alfred Bloomingdale says the multimillionaire often told her 'secret and delicate' details of White House inner workings.
Vicki Morgan, 29, a former model who claims she had a 12-year-long affair with the department store heir, also claimed in court documents filed Tuesday that she aborted Bloomingdale's baby against his wishes.
Miss Morgan's latest statements were an attempt to blunt arguments by the Bloomingdale family that she was nothing more than a sexual companion and not entitled to financial support from his estate.
Bloomingdale, a member of President Reagan's elite 'kitchen cabinet,' died of cancer Aug. 20. He was 66.
'Alfred told me about his judgments concerning Reagan's appointments, the Reagan cabinet and his role in Reagan's 'kitchen cabinet,'' said Miss Morgan.
'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 on the latest charge by Miss Morgan, a White House aide would only say, 'Millions of people worked for the Reagan campaign.'
Shortly before his death, Miss Morgan filed a $10 million palimony suit charging 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 lifetime support.
In her sworn declaration supporting the palimony action, Miss Morgan also claimed she became pregnant in 1971 and, despite Bloomingdale's wish that she have his child, she had an abortion.
A White House spokesman confirmed earlier Tuesday 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.'
