Gloria Vanderbilt Leaves Almost Entire Fortune to Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper, of CNN fame, told Howard Stern in 2014 in a radio interview that he was not expecting to inherit anything from his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, who recently passed away at age 95 after being diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer.  As the great-great-great-granddaughter of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, Gloria had originally inherited from a trust fund, but then made a sizable amount from being a pioneer in the fashion industry. Cooper claimed that “there was no trust fund” for him, and actually said inherited money was a bit of a curse and that it is an “initiative sucker.”

He may have second thoughts on that, however, as it has come to light that Cooper, the youngest son, has inherited the majority of his mother’s fortune, estimated to be $200 million. The eldest son, Leopold “Stan” Stokowski, will get her Midtown pad in a co-op at 30 Beekman Place. The second son, Chris Stokowski, has been estranged from the family for the past 40 and was written out of his mother’s will. A third son, Carter Cooper, committed suicide in 1988 by leaping out of his mother’s balcony. So “everything else” will be going to Cooper.

See Priscilla DeGregory, Gloria Vanderbilt Leaves Almost Entire Fortune to Anderson Cooper, Fox News, July 2, 2019.