Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt Gladys Moore Vanderbilt: Parent(s) William Henry Vanderbilt Maria Louisa Kissam: Relatives: See Vanderbilt family: Signature; Cornelius "Corneil" Vanderbilt II (November 27, 1843 - September 12, 1899) was an American socialite and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. Besides several novels, many short stories and books on collages and home design, she wrote a series of memoirs, including Black Knight, White Knight (1987), on her first and second marriages, and A Mothers Story (1995), about harsh events in her life, particularly Carters suicide in 1988. Many Concerns Now Merged", "MISS VANDERBILT WILL WED A COUNT; Gladys, Youngest Daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Financee of Laszlo Szechenyi. It was her happiest marriage, she often said, lasting 15 years until his death in 1978 during heart surgery. The Breakers is the grandest and most opulent of Newport's Gilded Age mansions, and it remains the most popular tourist attraction in the state of Rhode Island, Using the inheritance from his father, William Henry's youngest child, George, built a colossal 175,000 square foot retreat in Asheville, North Carolina. He gambled away most of his inheritance. Her youngest child, Countess Szchenyi, inherited both the massive summer "cottage" (The Breakers in Newport) and the New York townhouse at 857 Fifth Avenue (the former residence of George Jay Gould). Together, they were the parents of four sons and three daughters:[1][5], Alice Vanderbilt's husband died of a cerebral hemorrhage on September 12, 1899, in their New York home at 1 West 57th Street. These expenses amounted to $4,160 per month (about $60,000 today). Invitations werelimited to only the most elite. [citation needed], Through his eldest daughter, Vanderbilt was the grandfather of Henry Cooke Cushing IV (19242000),[21] who was married to Georgia Walters "Georgette Windsor" (b. ', siege to the cloistered world of New York society. One shocking eyewitness testimony claimed that William paid a phony clairvoyant to evoke hisdeceased mother during a trance session with the Commodore on his deathbed- and declare that he should be the sole inheritor of the estate. He made the news not for what he built but rather what he spent. The new owners of the co-op are Brian Hagiwara and Bret Baughman. In an age when a newspaper cost pennies, he owed $269 to his local newsstand. He . Guggenheim Guided His Start. Evelyn Floret/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images. HUNGARIAN HERE FOR BRIDE Young Court Chamberlain Is a Guest at the Breakers, Newport -- Betrothal Made in Europe Last Summer", "CUSHING CHILD BAPTIZED. When she was 10, her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and her mother sued each other for custody. Ms. Vanderbilt had two sons with Stokowski and two with her fourth husband, Wyatt Cooper, who died at 50 in 1978. Key factors for the buyers were the gated courtyard with parking for two cars and the tennis court-size garden, said the listing broker, Jonathan Hettinger of Sothebys International Realty. Follow us on Twitter: @nytrealestate. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available. In its place today stands a 41-story office building that was owned by Jared Kushner until 2018. This led him to commission a new station that would unite all three railroads under one roof. Records from the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Co. Kiliaen van Rensselaer 'I was not really aware at all,' he says, of his family history, Cornelius 'Commodore' Vanderbilt was an upstart from Staten Island who quit school at the age of 11 began working in his father's ferry business. E-BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON; GOOGLE: Kindle Store Pegels, PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICANS, CURRENT AND HISTORIC, EIGHT PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICAN FAMILIES: THE ROOSEVELTS, VANDERBILTS AND OTHERS, 2015, FIFTEEN PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICAN FAMILIES: THE VAN BURENS, KOCH BROTHERS, VOORHEES AND OTHERS, 2015, PROMINENT DUTCH AMERICANS IN U.S. GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP POSITIONS, 2015, ALLIED EUROPE CAMPAIGN1944/1945: TACTICAL MISTAKES, 2017, THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE NETHERLANDS: MEMOIRS, 2017, FRENCH REVOLUTION, NAPOLEON AND RUSSIAN WAR OF 1812, 2015. The townhouse at 39 East 72nd Street, where Gloria Vanderbilt spent part of her early childhood, was fully renovated and currently contains three apartments. She married and divorced three men a mobster who beat her; the conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was 42 years older and preoccupied with his own career; and the film director Sidney Lumet. This was just below the $12.9 million listing price. She also played a role in constructing The Breakers in Newport. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. He disregarded his nine daughters because they wouldn't be able to carry on the Vanderbilt name and had always wanted more than three sons. She largely subordinated herself to her husbands career, which often took him away on tours, but her outgoing persona re-emerged in 1954. She was 17. Several books that paint a portrait of New Netherland for young adults. Known as Reggie, he was the youngest son of American railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1845-1934). Ms. Vanderbilt had two children with Mr. Cooper. Ms. Vanderbilt surfaced regularly in society columns and on lists of best-dressed women in America. Cooper says: 'There is something uniquely American about this faux palace, with its dcor and fixtures ripped out of the ancient homes of European royalty.' With 250 rooms, 35 bedrooms, and 43 bathrooms, the French Renaissance chateau and its 8,000 acre property is still family owned and operated by George's relatives, Unlike the Commodore who despised ostentation, his grandchildren and subsequent generations squandered their fortune in an effort to break into society by building opulent homes, 'all which were built and torn down within a span of 60 years,' said Anderson Cooper. She was a granddaughter of Henry Collins Flagg, a former mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and a great-great-granddaughter of Major Ebenezer Flagg, who served in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolution and was killed in action in 1781. [5], In 1923, Cathleen was married to Henry "Harry" Cooke Cushing III (18951960) in the Italian Gardens of the Ambassador Hotel. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 'It was almost as though the Vanderbilt fortune itself was Cornie's afflictionthe access to it, the. SERVED IN FRENCH ARMY Bride Is the Daughter of Mrs. Frederic NeilsonGot Her Divorce in Newport Last April", "Gloria Vanderbilt, Builder of a Fashion Empire, Dies at 95", "R.C. Not far away from Washington Square Park, 54 Seventh Avenue South, the structure owned by Mr. Stern, the fashion photographer, sold for $11.8 million; it was listed for $11.95 million last year. [5] After her death, her son Neily received ownership of the Gwynne Building. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Before her parents' eventual divorce in 1920, they separated and she continued to live with her mother. 1880. Before their divorce in 1932,[a] they lived at 26 East 96th Street and were the parents of Henry Cooke Cushing IV (19242000),[14] a polo player and investor who was married to Georgia Walters "Georgette Windsor" (born 1924), Ruth Swift Dunbar (19322010), Rosalba Neri (born 1939), and Laura Alvarez. Gloria's mother, Gloria Morgan, became a widow in 1925. HUNGARIAN HERE FOR BRIDE Young Court Chamberlain Is a Guest at the Breakers, Newport -- Betrothal Made in Europe Last Summer", "MR. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT DEAD; Succumbed Suddenly Yesterday to Cerebral Hemorrhage. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Gloria Vanderbilt was 19 when she first married. The mansion was later inherited by his grandson, who auctioned off the 'outdated' priceless nineteenth century furniture in 1942 to Warner Brothers and other movie studios that used the pieces as set decorations for period films. Family With Him At End. amassed a staggering fortune of $200 million, the rough equivalent $5.4 billion today. In 1955 she published Love Poems, largely drawn from her diaries, and appeared in television dramas, a Broadway revival of William Saroyans The Time of Your Life and a summer stock production of William Inges Picnic, directed by Mr. Lumet. How I longed to merge into her.. It is known today as 'one of the greatest representations of the Gilded Age,' but at the time, the resplendent Newport mansion was 'just a small summer cottage' in comparison to the New York City palace on 58th Street. The first corridor is built on a scale more suited to grand city hotel lobbies than to a weekend getaway house. holds the record for the largest private residence ever built in New York City. Nobody could have expected then, how far the Vanderbilt would collapse under its only pathology for greed. The dress was renown for its cutting-edge technology, using hidden batteries in the folds of her dress to lit the torch during a time when almost all houses were still illuminated by gas lamps and candles, Alva and Willie Vanderbilt's daughter Consuelo, would captivate the public in 1895 with her much anticipated marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough (a first cousin of Winston Churchill). By the time he died in 1885, William amassed a staggering $200 million ($5.4 billion today), By 1873, Vanderbilt had taken control of what was then known as the Harlem railroad and merged it with the Hudson River and New York Central Railroad companies. It really was not a stable upbringing. Alice was responsible for constructing several massive family houses, including the enlargement of 1 West 57th Street, making it the largest private residence ever built in an American city at the time. The new owner was identified only as the Pinkhart Trust. [2] Her father had a country home known as Sandy Point Farm in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. R. VANDERBILT LEFT CHILDREN $6,250,000", "H. Cushing IV, Polo Player And Investor, 76", "Ms. Vanderbilt's Son Plunges to His Death", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reginald_Claypoole_Vanderbilt&oldid=1144917420, Burials at the Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 March 2023, at 08:19. Her twin sister and a brother vouched for her in the press, calling the accusations outrageous. Her friend the film actress said that if all mothers were as good as she, it would be good for America. And when the prince arrived, he testified that their relationship had been proper and that Gloria Morgan Vanderbilts whole life centered about the child.. ; One of the Sponsors Is Mrs. Vanderbilt -- Vanderbilt Christening Today", "Vanderbilt Dead After Hemorrhage Last Night", "R.C. In Midtown, the Mendelsohns paid almost $15.1 million for an apartment at Central Park Tower, at 217 West 57th Street, the latest addition by Extell Development to Billionaires Row. And in late-March closings, the fashion designer Ralph Lauren and his wife, Ricky Lauren, bought an Upper East Side co-op apartment for $4 million from the estate of Nancy Norman Lassalle, a prominent promoter of ballet who died last year. The loftlike residence has three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a library and a great room with a wood-burning fireplace. Caroline Astor recognized early on the importance of money in a country without landed aristocracy. He suffered from epilepsy, which the Commodore took to be a sign of weakness from a young age. 'She never really connected to any of them, so she never told me stories about her childhood growing up, she never really spoke about it. Perhaps the greatest temple to Vanderbilt ambition and excess is the Biltmore estate in Asheville, North Carolina. She suedfor custody of little Gloria citing 'neglect and immoral influence' of her mother as cause. Her father was a philandering drinker and gambler who frittered away his $7.3 million inheritance and died when Gloria was just 15 months old. NNIis registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. 'She was the last living Vanderbilt who'd slept at The Breakers when it was still a private home, owned by her grandmother AliceShe was the last child to ride in cars driven by liveried chauffeurs, guarded by private detectives in overcoats and fedoras.'. The actor Gabriel Byrne sold his NoLIta home, and in NoHo, the estate of the actress Olympia Dukakis sold her co-op loft, and the actress Cynthia Nixon and her wife, Christine Marinoni, a prominent activist, sold an apartment. Rules were strict, and Little Gloria felt stifled, she later said. They lived in New York and at the Breakers, the Vanderbilt estate in Newport, R.I. Little Gloria, as the family called her, and her much older half sister, Mary Cathleen, her fathers daughter by a previous marriage, who lived in another household, jointly inherited a $5 million trust fund when their father died in 1925. Anderson Cooper, 54, is the great-great-great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad and shipping tycoon who was once the richest man in the world. Boasting about the Petit Chateau she said, 'My house was the death of brown stone fronts.' The. When Cornelius Vanderbilt died on January 4, 1877, he left his entire fortune estimated to be $100 million to his eldest son William 'Billy' Henry Vanderbilt. 'It is fantastic how Vanderbilt she looks,' beamed Reggie. Others were costumed as Joan of Arc complete with solid silver chainmail, Christopher Columbus, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Queen Elizabeth I in a bright red wig, the goddess Diana, Daniel Boone. He Had Come to This City on Monday from Newport to Attend a Railroad Meeting -- Funeral Services to be Held on Friday", The Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Whitney Museum of American Art (original building), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Claypoole_Vanderbilt&oldid=1125590963, People included in New York Society's Four Hundred, Burials at the Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Pages using infobox person with multiple parents, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. ', Gossip columnists decried that Morgan was 'a cocktail-crazed dancing mother, a devotee of sex erotica, and the mistress of a German prince.'. There were passing parallels between Little Gloria and Little Orphan Annie, with whom she identified all her life. Anderson Cooper is the great-great-great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a poor farmer from Staten Island who became the richest self-made man in America with a 'pathological obsession for money.'. Frederick William Vanderbilt's mansion in Hyde Park, New York (right) served as a hunting lodge. Her husband Willie was a known party boy who indulged in the finer pleasures that wealth afforded him. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt: Children: Anderson Cooper, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski, Christopher Stokowski: Height: 1.70 m: . [18], Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt died from cirrhosis due to alcoholism on September 4, 1925, at his country home, Sandy Point Farm, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Gabriel Byrne received close to the asking price for his NoLIta apartment. Moment commuter blasts eco-zealots, Student kicked out of school for 'there are only two genders' t-shirt, Russian freight train derails and bursts into flames after explosion, Royal superfans camping on The Mall ahead of King's Coronation, Women's rights activists and pro-trans campaigners separated, Historic chairs to be reused by the King for the coronation service, Saboteurs wreck Russian train cut power cables 37mi from Ukraine, Braverman: People crossing Channel are 'at odds with British values', Cambridge students party in the park during annual celebrations, Unseen footage of Meghan Markle during her teenage years, Moment large saltwater crocodile snatches pet dog off beach in QLD, Hundreds of Household Division members rehearse for coronation, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, Do not sell or share my personal information. American equestrian and scion of the Vanderbilt fortune (18801925), "Mrs. Vanderbilt Sr. . Born on February 20, 1924, to railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and his wife, . But unlike its French counterpart, The Breakers was 'the center of envy without being a center of power.'. At the time of his death he was only 45 years old. Like a lot of sensational trials, the custody battle over Gloria Vanderbilt was dubbed the trial of the century. With courts now tending to keep custody matters private, the media maelstrom around it would never happen today. The restored and renovated, sandstone-clad mansion, between Madison and Park Avenues, is 27 feet wide and extends around 18,500 square feet over seven levels. At the end of the bio profile of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt is an extensive description howthe Vanderbilt in this bio profile fits in with the other prominent Vanderbilts who preceded or followed him. Many Concerns Now Merged", "Reginald Vanderbilt Dies Suddenly Today", "MISS VANDERBILT WILL WED A COUNT; Gladys, Youngest Daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Financee of Laszlo Szechenyi. [11][12], After her father's death in September 1925, Cathleen and her half-sister Gloria inherited the bulk of their father's estate, including a $5,000,000 trust established by Reginald's father, Cornelius II, in 1899. The Vanderbilt Mansion, which sold for $32.2 million, was built just before the turn of the last century and was once owned by Ms. Vanderbilts father, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. Gloria Vanderbilt jeans soon became a $100 million-a-year business, with skirts, sweaters, jackets, linens and fragrances joining her growing product lines. memorial page for Reginald Claypoole "Reggie" Vanderbilt (14 Jan 1880-4 Sep 1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6598358, citing Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum, New Dorp, Richmond County (Staten Island . She gave the front gates of her former mansion at 1 West 57th Street to be placed in Central Park. Unlike his brother who wanted to make a contribution to society, Reginald dropped out of Yale University after two years and decided to devote his time and effort to the equestrian industry where he became a well-known figure. The unit, at 211 Elizabeth Street, has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. After her father's death in 1855, her mother remarried to Albert Mathews, who wrote under the name Paul Siogvolk. H.P. By the 1870s, the beating heart of New York City society that was once Washington Square Park had decamped uptown. Information was gathered from several web sources, especially from Wikipedia, and information derived from research on other Vanderbilt persons. When Gloria was 10, her mother and a wealthy aunt sued each other in the eras most sensational child-custody case. As for the charge that Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt kept nude photos, werent there also nudes in Whitneys new art museum? A development group including Mink Development, B+B Capital and, according to online records, some Russian investors had acquired the 72nd Street house eight years ago for $19 million from the Mangold family, which had owned it since at least the early 1970s. Alva Vanderbilt's 'Marble House' in Newport, Rhode Island (left) cost$11 million to build, which equates to an estimated $310 million in today's money. The estate of Olympia Dukakis, who died last year, sold her three-bedroom apartment there. According to the book, Gloria's twin sister Thelma became the 'fast friend' and 'favoritedancing partner' of Edward, the Prince of Wales. Lady Milford Haven was the daughter of a Russian grand duke and was married to a Mountbatten, cousin to the king of England. The money a 'contagion,' he says, 'preying upon Cornie's body and on his mind. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt was the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and the great grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. ', 'My mom had a very fractured relationship with the family she was born into,' said Cooper to CNN. . He was the son of Marquesa de Justiz de Santa Ana and Arturo Arostegui. Uptown, David A. Brandon, the former chief executive of Toys R Us, found a buyer for his Upper East Side home, while Jonathan Mendelsohn, a British lobbyist, and his wife, Nicola Mendelsohn, a top executive at Meta, bought a brand-new unit in Midtown. Daniel H. Schulman, who runs PayPal, bought a three-bedroom apartment in the converted condominium. Among his siblings was Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875-1942), who . He remarried in 1923 with Gloria Morgan with whom he had a second daughter, Gloria Laura Vanderbilt in 1924. Ms. Vanderbilt with her fourth husband, Wyatt Cooper, a writer, in 1965. This article was published more than3 years ago. [14] They divorced that same year and in 1940, she married for the third and final time to Martin Arostegui, a publisher in Havana, Cuba. VANDERBILT LEFT CHILDREN $6,250,000; RESIDUE TO WIDOW; Her Share May Not Exceed $1,125,000 Plus Town House and Sandy Point Farm. After her father's death in 1855, her mother remarried to Albert Mathews, who wrote under the name Paul Siogvolk. Many original architectural elements remain, including the oversize windows and high ceilings, exposed brick and wood columns. Papers of Hans Bontemantel At the time of Reginalds death, Gloria Vanderbilt was only one year old. He married Maria Mercedes Morgan (1904-1965 . He Won Distinction as Soldier, Inventor, Engineer, Yachtsman. A month after Sophia's death, Cornelius carried out a complex and absurd relationship with two clairvoyant sisters that would last several years. Then he shifted attention to trains when he bought up local railroads and merged them into a vast transportation network that stretched across the United States. Before he died in 1920, he told the New York Times, 'My life was never destined to be quite happy. The included$925 for servants, plus an additional $250 for the servants' food. She promoted them in memorable television ad campaigns and public appearances, setting new trends in apparel marketing as the first American to exploit a famous family name on designer clothing. She denied being broke, but she moved into a small Manhattan apartment owned by Anderson Cooper. 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.. No one could,' wrote Cooper in his book. The family's New York City home was an opulent mansion . With 250 rooms, 35 bedrooms, and 43 bathrooms, the French Renaissance chateau and its 8,000 acre property is still family owned and operated by George's relatives. As a result of the trial, William Henry's younger brother, Cornelius Jeremiah committed suicide, As inheritor of Cornelius' $100 million estate, William Henry Vanderbilt assumed control of his father's shipping and railroad interests. Reggie Vanderbilt was 24 years Morgan's senior, she was only 18 when they married. She had a busy social calendar that took her all over Europe, and she often left her toddler to be cared for by others. The couple divorced in 1920. Im not knocking inherited money, she said in 1985, but the money Ive made has a reality to me that inherited money doesnt have. Gloria Vanderbilt in 1978. In a new book titled, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, turns a journalistic eye on his own family by raising the velvet curtain on the private lives, immense tragedies, and enormous glamour of the storied and scandalous American dynasty. Determined to upstage her sister-in-law down the street, Alva designed her grandiose mansion after the gothic castles she saw during her childhood in France. 'He had a mania for making money,' said Cooper. [14], Alice lived another 35 years until her death on April 22, 1934, in her home at 857 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, where she had moved after the 1926 sale of the 57th Street mansion (which was then demolished).[1]. In her later years the photographer Gordon Parks, who died in 2006, was her companion. He was the father of Gloria Vanderbilt and maternal grandfather of Anderson Cooper. He decided to get a broad education by getting three degrees from Yale University. He was the father of Gloria Vanderbilt and maternal grandfather of Anderson Cooper. He would be dead within months from cirrhosis of the liver. When Vanderbilt was born, her father was heard to exclaim in delight, "It is fantastic how Vanderbilt she looks! 'Baby Gloria was now the piggy bank for her entire household, and she couldn't even talk.
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