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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.
Wyatt Emory Cooper (1927–1978): 4th husband of Gloria Vanderbilt Tina Onassis Niarchos (1929–1974): 2nd wife of John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough Mary Lee Ryan (1931–2017): wife of William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil ; a first cousin of First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis .
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 ...
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Gloria Laura Madeleine Sophie Vanderbilt was born in 1924, a century after her great-great-grandfather started the family fortune, first in steamships, later in railroads. He left around $100 ...
The life of Gloria Vanderbilt is a case of truth being much, much more colorful than anything a fiction writer could cook up. The artist, author and poet was the subject of one of the country's ...
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972.
Furness and her sister Gloria wrote a memoir called Double Exposure (1959). [1] Furness died in New York City on 29 January 1970. As her niece, Gloria Vanderbilt, recalled, "She dropped dead on Seventy-third and Lexington on her way to see the doctor. In her bag was this miniature teddy bear that the Prince of Wales had given her, years before ...