LOS ANGELES -- The killer of Vicki Morgan said in jailhouse interviews published Sunday he and the mistress of the late Alfred Bloomingdale shared 'a special love,' but he beat her to death because she was a constant pest.
'I just wanted her to go to sleep,' Marvin Pancoast, 33, told the Los Angeles Times. 'I just wanted her to go to sleep and leave me alone that night.'
Pancoast surrendered to police early Thursday morning and told detectives he had just beaten Miss Morgan to death with a baseball bat because she was financially destitute. He was booked for murder and scheduled for arraignment Monday.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Pancoast said Miss Morgan, 30, 'needled' and 'manipulated' him and 'acted like the Queen of Sheba' during the three weeks they shared a North Hollywood condominium.
'She never did anything,' he said. 'I would get her tea with her seven lumps of sugar. I'd massage her feet and I'd comb her hair. The only time she ever moved herself was when she was manipulating somebody.'
Pancoast said he was Miss Morgan's 'little slave,' who cooked her meals and cared for her son, Todd, 14, while she drank heavily and took Valiums each day.
But he told the Times in an interview Saturday, a day after the Herald Examiner interview, that he was not angry with Miss Morgan.
'I was just tired. I'd been working with her trying to get her moved.'
Pancoast said he and the unemployed model -- who met in 1979 while both were patients at a mental health center at Cedars-Sinai Hospital - were close friends, not lovers, who shared their 'own special kind of love for each other.'
Miss Morgan filed an unsuccessful $11 million palimony suit last July against Bloomingdale, founder of the Diners Club and a long-time friend of President Reagan and member of his 'kitchen cabinet.'
Miss Morgan and Pancoast were to be moved out of their condominium the day she was killed because they were unable to make payments. Miss Morgan, who did some part-time modeling and had minor parts in several movies, had not worked since she filed the suit July 8, 1982, police said.
Pancoast said her sudden poverty 'was very hard on her.'
'I kept on giving her moral support and believing in her when other people didn't, and didn't care anymore,' he said.
Bloomingdale died last Aug. 23 at age 66. Miss Morgan continued to press her suit against his estate and widow Betsy Bloomingdale, one of Nancy Reagan's closest friends.
Miss Morgan said the affair ended last year when Mrs. Bloomingdale discovered her ailing husband had been giving his mistress up to $18,000 a month.
Miss Morgan sought financial support for the rest of her life from the estate, based on alleged promises Bloomindale made. Attorneys for the estate never denied the affair, but argued the millionaire's mistress was, in effect, a prostitute.
Superior Court Judge Christian Markey agreed and threw out the palimony portions of the suit last September.
