LOS ANGELES -- A lawsuit that launched the Vicki Morgan-Alfred Bloomingdale dispute was ordered to trial Friday by a judge, who denied motions by Morgan's mother for a summary judgment.
Superior Court Judge Ricardo Torres did not set a date for the trial, expected to begin next month.
Constance Laney, Morgan's mother and administrator of her estate, is pursuing the suit filed against by her slain daughter against the late millionaire through attorney Michael Dave, although both of the parties are dead.
She is seeking $240,000 plus earnings from Bloomingdale's pizza business, which he reportedly promised his mistress on his death bed, for Morgan's 15-year-old son, Todd.
The multimillion-dollar palimony action filed by Morgan in 1982 was dismissed, but the judge ruled that trial could proceed on portions of the suit concerning a contract Bloomingdale allegedly signed in a hospital shortly before he died of cancer in 1982.
'From August 1981 to February 1982, she agreed to be at the hospital with him,' Dave told the judge. 'He had a fear of dying.'
Torres said he based his denial partly on a previous deposition by Morgan, who was beaten to death at age 30 last year.
'Miss Morgan knew his chances of survival were one in a million,' the judge said.
