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TIL A close friend of the president Ronald Reagan and an heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store fortune, also known as “father of the credit card”, Alfred Bloomingdale was in a BDSM relationship with his mistress Vicki Morgan, who later was beaten to death with a baseball bat.

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