Fog Blog Gloria Vanderbilt Dies Log:

FASHION ICON AND MOTHER TO CNN'S ANDERSON COOPER.....GLORIA VANDERBILT HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 95! SHE WILL BE MOURNED AND MISSED BY MANY FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY!!........Born in New York in 1924, Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt grew up in France. Her father, financier Reginald Vanderbilt, the heir to a railroad fortune, died when she was a baby.Gloria was the focus of media attention at an early age, dubbed "the poor little rich girl" amid an intense custody battle between her mother and her father's wealthy sister, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Though her aunt prevailed in court proceedings, young Gloria didn't know her well. She considered her nanny, Dodo, her mother figure. She died of stomach cancer!