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Cornelius Vanderbilt II's daughter Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was a sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1855, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt donated 45 acres (18 ha) of property to the Moravian Church and Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.
Among these wealthy families are celebrities like Anderson Cooper, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Nick Kroll, who have had access to vast wealth and opportunities from an early age. These stars were set ...
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.
William Henry Vanderbilt (May 8, 1821 – December 8, 1885) was an American businessman [1] Known as "Billy", he was the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family.
NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the "poor little rich girl" of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and ...
Anderson Cooper is inheriting the bulk of his late mother, Gloria Vanderbilt's, fortune, but the monetary total of his inheritance is reportedly much less than estimates had predicted.
His early life was marked by tragedy as his father died during open-heart surgery when Anderson was just 10 years old in January 1978, and his older brother Carter died by suicide 10 years later ...
On December 24, 1963, he married heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, becoming her fourth husband. The couple frequently appeared on the national "best-dressed" list. [3] They had two sons: Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965–1988), who died by suicide, [6] and Anderson Hays Cooper (b. 1967), who is an anchor for CNN. [7]