Personal Life
In 1946, he married Betty Newling, a practicing Roman Catholic, fleeting movie starlet, and daughter of a Beverly Hills doctor. They had three children: Jeffry (born 1950), Lisa (born 1951), and Robert (born 1954).
Along with his wife Betsy, Bloomingdale became a friend and confidante of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Following his election to the U.S. presidency, in 1981 Reagan appointed Bloomingdale to the Presidenti's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the following year named him a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
Bloomingdale was a member of the Roman Catholic lay organization, the Knights of Malta. The Bloomingdales maintained homes in New York, the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, and an apartment in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC.
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