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Vanderbilt, Gloria Laura (20 February 1924–17 June 2019), socialite, fashion designer, and entrepreneur  

Ann T. Keene

Vanderbilt, Gloria Laura (20 February 1924–17 June 2019), socialite, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, was born in New York City, the only child of Reginald Vanderbilt, great-grandson of Cornelius (“Commodore”) Vanderbilt, a legendary nineteenth-century shipping tycoon, and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, descended from a distinguished family of diplomats, judges, and a Civil War Union general. Reginald was a heavy-drinking heir to a railway fortune, a noted equestrian, and a playboy who was twenty-four years his wife’s senior. “Little Gloria,” as his daughter became publicly known, was a celebrity virtually from birth, heiress to a presumed fortune. Following Reginald Vanderbilt’s death in ...