At 16, Vicki Morgan became pregnant, dropped out of Chaffey High School, and gave birth to a son, Todd.

[2] In August 1969, whilst still 17, Morgan met 53-year-old financier Alfred S. Bloomingdale, a married multi-millionaire from the famous department store family, in a restaurant on the Sunset Strip.

[5] As Bloomingdale's mistress, her social circle would include politicians, businessmen,[2] and the wealthy playboy Bernie Cornfeld.

That year she entered rehabilitation, where she met Marvin Pancoast,[3] a gay man who was infatuated with Morgan and her stories of the high life she led with Bloomingdale.

[1] The pre-trial media coverage of the initial complaint revealed details of the couple's sexual relationship that grabbed headlines nationwide,[2] causing particular embarrassment amongst Bloomingdale's friends in Washington, D.C.

Later court documents and news stories revealed that Morgan supported herself by selling off the jewelry and the expensive car purchased for her by Bloomingdale.

[9] On the evening of July 7, 1983, less than eleven months after Bloomingdale's death, Pancoast walked into a police station and confessed to murdering Morgan in their apartment.

Pancoast was sentenced to 26 years-to-life in prison[2] and died in 1991 in Chino, California, while undergoing treatment for AIDS-related illnesses.

The story of her life and death was the topic of Vanity Fair Confidential (Season 4, Episode 7: Murder Most Obsessive) which first aired on March 19, 2018.

Her BDSM-based relationships with Alfred Bloomingdale and Marvin Pancoast are also explored in the Poisoned Passions episode "Sadistic Pleasure".