"Thirty years ago today, before my eyes, I lost Carter Cooper," she wrote. Gloria Vanderbilt leaves almost entire fortune to Anderson Cooper [37], When Vanderbilt celebrated her 90th birthday on February 20, 2014, a collection of her drawings, paintings and collages was placed on display in the 1stdibs Gallery at New York Design Center in New York City, in an exhibit called "The Left Hand Is The Dreamer". Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. [24][34], Vanderbilt studied art at the Art Students League of New York. Gloria Vanderbilt's Beekman Place Apartment Is for Sale Anderson Cooper is selling his mother's perpetually reimagined two-bedroom, where she lived for nearly 25 years, for $1.125. Gloria Laura Vanderbilt - New Netherland Institute In 1955 she appeared on Broadway as Elsie in a revival of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. At the age of 21, she assumed control of her inheritance. Conservative courts notwithstanding, Judge Carew had found himself puzzling over an apparent contradiction in his courtroom: Did Gloria want to live with her aunt or with her mother? They were accompanied by a beloved nannyEmma Sullivan Kieslich,[10] whom young Gloria had named "Dodo"who would play a tumultuous part in the child's life,[11] and her mother's identical twin sister, Thelma, who was the lover of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) during this time. Its like a tonic for her.. Married four times (the first, at 17, to an actors agent with mob connections who beat her and was rumored to have killed his first wife), Ms. Vanderbilts romances included Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes and the photographer Gordon Parks. 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 child . Vanderbilt was present at the time and pleaded with her son to come away from the edge of the terrace before he jumped, a fact which naturally haunted her in the ensuing decades of her life. Gloria Vanderbilts Beekman Place Apartment Is for Sale, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/realestate/gloria-vanderbilt-home-sale.html, Collages by Ms. Vanderbilt, and on the fireplace, which she hand-painted, a quote paraphrased from Einstein: The distance between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent. (Some of her personal items have since been removed for the listing of the property.). Through the exhausting whirl of all-night parties, shopping, and beach holidays, little Gloria spent the vast majority of her time with her live-in nurse. "But that wasn't the worst. Vanderbilt never remarrieda particular statement of devotion from a woman who had spent the better part of 40 years in one marriage or another. Gloria Vanderbilt's fortune: Anderson Cooper inherits $1.5M Together Anderson Cooper and his mother Gloria Vanderbilt released the documentary Nothing Left Unsaid in 2016. When her daughter got tonsillitis, she took Gloria back to the U.S. for an operation, then left the girl to recover with her auntGertrude on Long Island while she went back to Europe for several months. Out stepped Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, thin and unsmiling. "Anybody would do anything to get the story. "I was christened Mercedes. The opposing parties were two sisters-in-law: Gertrude Whitney and the child's 29-year-old mother, also named Gloria. For his efforts he has won five Emmy Awards as well as a Peabody Award for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina. [23], From 1954 to 1963, Vanderbilt applied herself to acting. Over the next several years, Gloria Morgan lived in opulent style on those payments.