On this day, July 7, in 1983, Vicki Morgan, the mistress of Diners Club founder Alfred S. Bloomingdale, was beaten to death with a baseball bat.

Bloomingdale, an heir to the department store fortune and a member of President Reagan’s “kitchen cabinet,” began an 12-year affair with Morgan when she was 18 and he was 54. Bloomingdale lavished her with cars, jewelry and kept her in a luxurious apartment.

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