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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Maria Mercedes Morgan; 23 August 1904 – 13 February 1965) was an American socialite. Vanderbilt was the mother of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt and maternal grandmother of television journalist Anderson Cooper.
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 ...
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt is most famous for being a mother—and not a very good one at that. And don’t forget, without her we wouldn’t have overpriced designer jeans or news sensation Anderson Cooper. But, her headline dominating custody battle gave us something more: tabloid journalism.
Apr 3, 2014 · Best Known For: Known for her fashion design and tumultuous personal life, actress, writer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt became an iconic figure in American popular culture during the 20th...
Jun 17, 2019 · Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was only 10 when she became an unwilling tabloid sensation. It was 1934, and she was the subject of a nasty custody battle between her widowed mother and her aunt,...
Jun 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 child-custody fight, of...
Aug 3, 2019 · But Morgan (who was known to hate Germans) called Prince Hohenlohe a “count of no account,” according to later accounts by Gloria Vanderbilt, believing he had little money.
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...
Jun 17, 2019 · Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, the Commodore’s great-grandson, was a sportsman and profligate gambler when he married Gloria Laura Morgan, a Swiss-born socialite who was 17 to his 42.
Jun 17, 2019 · Gloria Vanderbilt, one of the most chronicled socialites of her era who had a varied career as a model, actress, poet, painter, author and mass-marketer of designer jeans, died June 17 at her...
