Gloria Vanderbilt | 1924 – 2019

American socialite, fashion designer, actress, writer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt.

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Feb. 3, 1979: Gloria Vanderbilt at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition “Fashions of the Hapsburg Era.”

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Gloria Vanderbilt with sons Anderson Cooper, left, and Carter Vanderbilt Cooper in New York.

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About 1978: Gloria Vanderbilt.

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April 2009: Gloria Vanderbilt attends a National Arts Club Literary Committee event honoring Joyce Carol Oates.

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