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Post by Jaga on Jul 3, 2019 5:06:15 GMT -7
Something for Pieter to know - she was a heir of the famous from Vanderbilt family - beautiful and smart. Her son, Anderson Cooper, is a renowned CNN journalist, whose modest beginnings I remember. He worked at 4 am in the morning as the CNS anchor. He did not need to do that, he had a huge fortune. she had two sons with Polish-English composer Leopold Stokowski, when she was 21 and he was 63 |
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Post by pieter on Jul 3, 2019 18:13:11 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 3, 2019 18:19:05 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Jul 3, 2019 22:36:24 GMT -7
Gloria was really very pretty and has plenty of natural charm when she was young.
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Post by pieter on Jul 4, 2019 2:26:43 GMT -7
She was more American than she was Dutch or European Jaga.  American aristocracy, coming from the Patrician Vanderbilt family. The Vanderbilt family is an American family of Dutch origin who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build grand mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York City; luxurious "summer cottages" in Newport, Rhode Island; the palatial Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina; and various other opulent homes. The Vanderbilts were once the wealthiest family in America. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest American until his death in 1877. After that, his son William acquired his father's fortune, and was the richest American until his death in 1885. The Vanderbilts' prominence lasted until the mid-20th century, when the family's 10 great Fifth Avenue mansions were torn down, and most other Vanderbilt houses were sold or turned into museums in what has been referred to as the "Fall of the House of Vanderbilt". Branches of the family are found on the United States East Coast. Contemporary descendants include journalist Anderson Cooper, actor Timothy Olyphant, musician John P. Hammond and screenwriter James Vanderbilt. The progenitor of the Vanderbilt family was Jan Aertszoon or Aertson (1620–1705), a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland as an indentured servant to the Van Kouwenhoven family in 1650. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_family |
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American aristocracy, coming from the Patrician Vanderbilt family.