The marriage lasted four years and was dissolved through divorce in In the same year, , she married the famous conductor, Leopold Stokowski. The couple had two sons, Leopold S.
Stokowski [] and Christopher Stokowski []. The second marriage was dissolved in the same year their second son was born, in In the following year, in , Gloria married the film director Sydney Lumet.
This marriage lasted until when the couple divorced. The couple had no children. She married the author Wyatt Emery Cooper. This marriage produced two children, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper [] and Anderson Cooper []. At the start of the New York trial, the judge warned that "dirt" from the press coverage would make the girl forever infamous. Lurid testimony riveted the nation during the nearly two-month trial.
A nurse said Gloria's mother was a cocktail-crazed dancer, a devotee of erotica and the mistress of a German prince. A chauffeur testified that the girl's mother had several lovers. A French maid raised the specter of lesbianism, causing the judge to close the courtroom. When her parents married in , her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, was a beautiful year-old socialite, already a society fixture along with an identical twin sister, Thelma.
Her father, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, was a year-old gambler, struggling with alcohol and squandering his family fortune. The year after that, her father died of cirrhosis of the liver and other complications of alcoholism. Her year-old mother received a generous allowance from the fund to support her daughter. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt moved to Paris with her daughter and a nanny. She was joined by her twin, Thelma, and her mother, Laura Kilpatrick Morgan.
She had a busy social calendar that took her all over Europe, and she often left her toddler to be cared for by others. American heiress, artist, socialite, writer and fashion designer, Gloria Vanderbilt, with her first husband, agent and movie producer Pat DiCicco - at their wedding reception, held at the home of Vanderbilt's mother, in Beverly Hills, California, 28th December Then, on Sept. Whitney came out swinging, suing for full custody.
A judge ordered that the year-old stay with Whitney while the case was decided. First, Vanderbilt's own mother filed an affidavit claiming that while in Paris, her "daughter paid absolutely no attention to little Gloria.
She devoted herself exclusively to her own pleasures. She took long trips to Germany and other places. She seldom wrote to me or inquired about the baby. Morgan also said Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt had tried to teach the child how to mix cocktails that very month, according to The Washington Post at the time. She recommended that Little Gloria go to Whitney. Then the nanny testified on Whitney's behalf. She said Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt caroused at all hours with a film actress, that her lovers sometimes spent the night and that magazines with pictures of nude men and women were "tossed carelessly about the house.
The accusations "startled the crowded courtroom," The Post reported. One of those alleged lovers, the German aristocrat Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe, set sail for New York to clear his name. Vanderbilt said in an interview with People, that she did not write it as a form of therapy to resolve the pain she felt at her mother's indifference.
I consider it a piece of work, not therapy. I always knew I would do the book, and it fell onto the page. In it she wrote of Stokowski, "With time, bitterness and pain gently slipped away, and a mysterious loving light shines strongly through the crystal of memory.
Because as I have come to understand myself-I have also come to understand him. My mother, too, I have come to understand … And although I still search for her, and part of me probably always will, it is an ache I have learned to live with, and we have found, she and I, a place of peace where we rest together: closer perhaps in death than we ever were in life.
In July , Vanderbilt experienced the worst nightmare of her life. Her son Carter Cooper, age 23, plummeted from the terrace of her 14th-floor penthouse to his death as she watched powerlessly.
Vanderbilt contended that her son was not depressed or suicidal, but was disoriented from asthma medication he had taken. At first she was unable to accept his death. Six weeks later she joined a suicide support group, which she credits with saving her life. Rich people do it differently. They don't communicate. The group met once a week.
I wish it had met every day. You walk in, and it's a roomful of strangers-all rock bottom. There was someone who'd had it happen two days before; another to whom it had happened ten years ago. You could look at him and say, "It's been ten years, and he's alive and okay.
In , Vanderbilt published A Mother's Story, about her son's suicide. She is very close to her youngest son, Anderson Cooper, and delights in her two granddaughters Abra and Aurora Stokowski, the children of Stan Stokowski. Book reviewer Joanne Kaufman called the work "an exercise in self-indulgence. There is an effortful quality to Vanderbilt's writing, that of someone trying far too hard for a literary patina. Gloria Vanderbilt found a measure of the domestic tranquility that had long eluded her when she married writer-actor Wyatt Cooper in A southerner who reveled in strong ties to his extended family, Cooper inspired her to reconcile with her long-estranged mother, although Vanderbilt now laments that they were unable to make a deeper connection.
Together, they had two sons: Anderson and Carter. That family suffered a devastating blow in when year-old Wyatt Cooper died during heart bypass surgery. In a heartbreaking remembrance, Vanderbilt recalls her time beside his hospital bed.
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