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ONE OF A KIND
V anderbilt had romantic Anderson. Wyatt Cooper passed away
relationships with suddenly at the age of fifty, in their
famed photographer fifteenth year of marriage.
and filmmaker In the 70s her fashion design business
Gordon Parks. Other famous lovers took off with Vanderbilt jeans featuring
have included Brando, Sinatra and her signature and the now iconic swan
Howard Hughes. logo. With a net worth of an estimated
200 million U.S. Vanderbilt turned her
During the 50s, following an unhappy inheritance into successful ventures,
first marriage, Vanderbilt married while maintaining true to her artistic
renowned conductor Leopold self.
Stokowski with whom she had two In addition to being a mother, artist
sons. During that time, she acted on and actress, Vanderbilt has published
Broadway in William Saroyan's The several books of nonfiction and of
Time of Your Life, and until the 60s fiction. Her memoirs provide insight
was featured in several TV series and into her unique élan and autonomous
published the book Love Poems. strength.
The secret to long life and happiness,
The 60s brought about the divorce according to this New York doyenne,
from third husband celebrated is love and care.
director Sidney Lumet, and in 1963, at
the age of 39, Vanderbilt married her
true love, author Wyatt Cooper, with
whom she had two sons, Carter and
Gloria Vanderbilt and son Anderson Cooper
Gloria Vanderbilt “I do take very good care of myself, and I’m always in
love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I’m
in love with beauty and things and people and love and
being in love, and those things I think, on the inside,
show on the outside.”
- Gloria Vanderbilt
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