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Gloria Vanderbilt's Life in Photos
1935
Vanderbilt was born in New York City on February 20, 1924 to one of the wealthiest families in America.
Her father was railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt who built the New York Central Railroad, who died when she was 18 months old. Her mother was his second wife, 19-year-old Gloria Morgan.
1934
When Vanderbilt was 10 years old, she found herself in the center of the “custody battle of the century” between her aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (founder of New York City’s Whitney Museum) and her mother. The trial became a media sensation, earning her the nickname "poor little rich girl."
Her aunt eventually won custody after revealing in the case that Vanderbilt’s mother was a lesbian and painted her as an unfit mother.
1935
Vanderbilt is pictured being escorted home from Palm Sunday services at Church of St. Francis of Assisi in New York City.
1937
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Gloria Vanderbilt
(1924-2019)
Who Was Gloria Vanderbilt?
Gloria Vanderbilt became famous early in life at the center of a battle between her mother and aunt for her custody and multi-million-dollar trust fund in the 1930s. Her fame grew later in life as she ventured into theater, film and fashion, with her jeans becoming a staple of the 1970s designer scene. She wrote several novels and nonfiction works, including It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir, and was a noted collagist and creator of multidimensional panoramas featured in exhibitions. Vanderbilt also was known as the mother of broadcast journalist Anderson Cooper.
Early Life
A member of the affluent and influential Vanderbilt family, Gloria Vanderbilt was born on February 20, 1924, in New York City. Her father, Reginald Vanderbilt, was the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the creator of a railroad empire and one of America's first millionaires. Her mother, Gloria Morgan, was a young woman who
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