Beyond journalism and presenting Bridget is open to ghost-writing and book-editing commissions. Bridget is currently writing a non-fiction book about a prominent 1980s Los Angeles murder and developing a true crime podcast on the same subject. She is also working on a book about Dorothy Parker.

Sex, Murder and Videotape

The untold story of Alfred Bloomingdale, his mistress Vicki Morgan, and the sex tapes that almost cost Reagan re-election.

Alfred Bloomingdale was a man at the heart of America’s institutions, who would go on to advise President Reagan as a top official on intelligence and international relations. He wasn’t part of the establishment. He was the establishment. In the early hours of July 7th, 1983, wearing only a yellow T-shirt and blue bikini-style panties, Alfred’s longtime mistress, Vicki Morgan, was found dead, bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat.

Vicki Morgan possessed a remarkable beauty. As her star rose, she took dozens of rich and famous lovers—movie moguls, a Moroccan king, a Saudi princess—as well as three husbands. But she always went back to Bloomingdale. Vicki was murdered a year after she brought a $5 million palimony suit against him. The legal battle was so sensational that a senior White House aide met with Vicki’s lawyer to suggest some compassion for Bloomingdale's wife, Betsy. “She took a lot of secrets to the grave with her,” Vicki’s lawyer once remarked. And Vicki swore in a deposition that Bloomingdale often shared "secret and delicate" details of White House meetings with her. 

Vicki was right about one thing. Some secrets are delicate. They are also dangerous, especially for those who know too much. So how did a high school dropout found dead in her Studio City condominium come to hold secrets that would be bigger than Watergate?

Table for Two

Bridget is the writer and researcher for Table for Two, a podcast hosted by Bruce Bozzi and launched in December 2022. Bruce, the former executive vice-president of The Palm restaurant group, ran the chain’s Beverly Hills location for many years. In that time, he became good friends with dozens of Hollywood A-listers. Now, he’s interviewing the people he’s come to know over lunch for his new podcast, Table for Two. Guests so far include Scarlett Johansson, Andy Cohen, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Octavia Spencer, Chelsea Handler, Kate Hudson, Sharon Stone, Anna Wintour, Rob Lowe, and Jon Bon Jovi. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Mr Mutilation

Bridget is currently writing the podcast, Mr Mutilation, telling the true story of disgraced surgeon, Ian Paterson. Across the U.K., hundreds of women were subjected to painful, life-changing surgery at the hands of Paterson. For more than two decades, Paterson was able to “hide in plain sight,” working in NHS and private hospitals across the Midlands. In some cases, he told his patients they had cancer and needed mastectomies when they didn’t have the disease at all. Some patients who did have cancer were left at risk of developing the disease after Paterson invented an unofficial procedure. Around 1,200 NHS patients went under Paterson’s knife for mastectomies. Around 675 of them have now died.