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Jun 17, 2019 · Gloria Vanderbilt — the glamorous Manhattan socialite from one of the nation's wealthiest families who was as well-known for her eponymous brand of jeans as her genes — died Monday after a ...
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Jun 17, 2019 · Gloria Vanderbilt, mother to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and member of the storied Vanderbilt family, has died at 95 years old. Cooper confirmed his mother's death on air on CNN, saying she died at home surrounded by family and friends.
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Jun 17, 2019 · June 17, 2019. Gloria Vanderbilt, the society heiress who stitched her illustrious family name into designer jeans and built a $100 million fashion empire, crowning her tabloid story of a...
- 'I've Had Many, Many Loves'
- 'Poor Little Rich Girl'
- Multiple Marriages
- Making Headlines
Vanderbilt wrote several books, including the 2004 chronicle of her love life: It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir, which drops such names as Errol Flynn, whom she dated as a teenager; Frank Sinatra, for whom she left Stokowski; Marlon Brando and Howard Hughes. She claimed her only happy marriage was to author Wyatt Cooper, which ende...
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 million (all figures US) when he died in 1877 at age 82. Her father, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, was 43, a gambler and boozer dying of liver disease when h...
She dated celebrities and declared she would marry Hughes. Instead, the 17-year-old wed Hughes' press agent, Pasquale di Cicco, prompting her aunt to cut Gloria out of her will. Vanderbilt came into her own $5 million trust fund in 1945 at age 21. She also divorced Di Cicco, whom she said had beaten her often, and the next day married the 63-year-o...
After her success in designer jeans, Vanderbilt branched out into other areas, including shoes, scarves, table and bed linens, and china, through her company, Gloria Concepts. In 1988 Vanderbilt joined the designer fragrance market with her signature "Glorious." By the late 1980s, Vanderbilt sold the name and licenses for the brand name "Gloria Van...
Jun 17, 2019 · Gloria Vanderbilt, the fashion designer, artist, actress, philanthropist, and glamorous socialite who lived much of her life in New York City, has died at 95. The news was confirmed by her son,...
Jun 17, 2019 · 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 multiple...
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Jun 18, 2019 · Gloria Vanderbilt, American fashion designer, artist, author and heiress, died on Monday 17 June, aged 95. Vanderbilt had cancer. She is survived by her sons, CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper—who confirmed her death, saying she was the “coolest and most modern” person he knew—Leopold Stokowski and Christopher Stokowski.
