Who got Gloria Vanderbilt's money?

Didn't she die with very little money because a business manager or husband swindled her? Cooper got her apartment, I think, and possessions.

Of course Anderson got the money. He can say he didn't all he wants. He's lying.

$1.5 is nothing in NYC, darling

Anderson Cooper is an elitist asshole and you're a fool if you think he didn't inherit substantial assets.

A little off subject but after watching a replay of Anderson's interview with Prince Harry last night on 60 Minutes, he is a terrible celebrity interviewer. He did nothing but suck up and throw softballs with no follow-up questions at all.

I don't think her last apartment was very big, R5, and I doubt it was worth a lot of money --- maybe a couple of million but not tens of millions like apartments in the prestige buildings on Park and Fifth.

No one swindled her- she went through her trust decades ago and I believe at least a couple bankruptcies with her companies. She was essentially supported by her son at the end of her life. She was a talented woman although she clearly was not good at running her own financial affairs.

Gloria was great at spending, just like her mother Gloria Morgan before her. She wasn’t quite as thrifty as gal pals Oona O’Neill and Carol Saroyan in the money department.

I saw a doco on the Vanderbilts. A huge amount of the original fortune was lost back in the 1890s/1900-10s, by the spending habits of the Vanderbilt-by-marriage on whom the Carrie Coon part in The Gilded Age was based. In the show, that character appears to be married to the original robber-baron, Cornelius, who was a deft businessman, but in life she was second-generation; the fortune had been divided among Cornelius's adult children after the first of the nasty Vanderbilt court cases, and her husband wasn't great at business.

Gloria inherited and went through a lot of money, but nowhere near The Vanderbilt Fortune as it looked at the end of the 1800s.

Carrie Coon. What a name.

Gloria's pets got all her money.

Yes, I've read that most of the wealthy, socially prominent families in New York would cut back spending in times of recession during the Gilded Age but certain members of the Vanderbilt family continued to spend lavishly.