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Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (February 20, 1924 – June 17, 2019) was an American artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite. During the 1930s, she was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, each sought custody of her and control over her trust fund.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (left) with her identical twin, Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Born at the Grand Hotel National [1] in Lucerne, Switzerland, as Maria Mercedes Morgan, [2] [3] she was a daughter of Henry Hays Morgan, Sr. (1860–1933), an American diplomat, who served as U.S. consul general in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Havana, Cuba; and Brussels ...
Anderson Cooper's mother, artist and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, died on Monday after a battle with stomach cancer. Why Gloria Vanderbilt did not leave an inheritance for son Anderson Cooper Skip ...
Last week, documents showed that Vanderbilt was leaving her lavish Midtown apartment to her oldest son, Leopold "Stan" Stokowski, and "all the rest" of her fortune to Cooper. (Her estranged middle ...
After her father's death in 1914, [10] Cornelia inherited the Biltmore estate. Her mother sold approximately 86,000 acres (350 km 2) of the Biltmore property to the United States Forest Service to create the core of Pisgah National Forest. Her mother later married Peter Goelet Gerry (1879–1957), a United States senator from Rhode Island. [3] [11]
The life of Gloria Vanderbilt is a case of truth being much, much more colorful than anything a fiction writer could cook up. ... The film truly doesn't leave much unsaid, but people want more ...
In 1941, DiCicco married Gloria Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, who was only 17, had moved to Hollywood that same year. [3] DiCicco was allegedly a temperamental and abusive husband who called Vanderbilt "Fatsy Roo" and regularly beat her. Vanderbilt later said, "He would take my head and bang it against the wall. I had black eyes." [4] They divorced ...
Millennials are known for their mastery of social media, but Gloria Vanderbilt proved age is only a number when it comes to becoming an Instagram star. How Gloria Vanderbilt became a social media ...