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Gloria Vanderbilt
Socialite
Female
Born
Feb 20, 1924
Age
89
Hometown
New York City, Ne...
Other Names
Gloria Laura Vand...
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite most noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. She is a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family of New York and the mother of CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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Romance
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Pasquale DeCiccoMarried 1941 - 1945
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Pat DiCiccoMarried 1940 - 1945
Family
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Gloria Vanderbilt
Age 89
parents
children
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Christopher StokowskiSon, Age 61
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Carter Vanderbilt CooperSon, d.1988
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Leopold Stanislaus StokowskiSon
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Gal Time: 10 Famous Mother/Child DuosHuffington Post - Mar 28, 2013
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Ken Fallin: It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman'Huffington Post - Mar 23, 2013
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Lisa Oppenheimer: What 60s Style Really Looked LikeHuffington Post - Mar 10, 2013
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Anderson Cooper's Mom Had StyleHuffington Post - Feb 20, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1924
Birth
Born on February 20, 1924.
TEENAGE
1937
13 Years Old
Vanderbilt's mother was forced to live on a drastically reduced portion of her daughter's trust, which was worth more than $4 million dollars at the end of 1937.
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1941
17 Years Old
At 17 years old, Vanderbilt went to Hollywood where she married agent Pasquale ("Pat") DiCicco in 1941; they divorced in 1945.
TWENTIES
1945
21 Years Old
Her second marriage, to conductor Leopold Stokowski in April 1945, produced two sons, Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski, born August 22, 1950 and Christopher Stokowski, born January 31, 1952; they divorced in October 1955.
THIRTIES
1956
32 Years Old
On August 28, 1956, she married director Sidney Lumet; they divorced in August 1963.
1963
39 Years Old
She married her fourth husband, author Wyatt Emory Cooper on December 24, 1963.
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FIFTIES
1983
59 Years Old
She has three grandchildren by her eldest son, Stan: Aurora, born in March 1983 and Abra, born in February 1985, both to author Ivy Strick, and Myles, born in 1998 to artist Emily Goldstein.
LATE ADULTHOOD
2006
82 Years Old
She maintained a romantic relationship with photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks for many years until his death in 2006.
2011
87 Years Old
Vanderbilt is very close friends with comedienne Kathy Griffin, and while appearing as a guest on her son Anderson Cooper's talk show, Anderson on September 19, 2011, referred to Griffin as her "fantasy daughter."
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