![]() In 1934 little Gloria’s aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, egged on by the child’s aggressive maternal grandmother, Laura Kilpatrick Morgan, decided to try and claim custody of the child, a move seen by mother Gloria as a Vanderbilt conspiracy to cut off her funds. ![]() His widow’s only real source of financial support thereafter lay in the income to be derived from a $2.5- million trust established for their infant daughter by Cornelius, the restrictions on which led her to resent and neglect the infant on whom she depended financially. In 1925, a year after the birth of their only daughter Reggie died, vomiting blood from ruptured oesophageal varices. ![]() She was a beautiful 19-year old socialite, he a dissipated 43-year old alcoholic whose passions included gambling. ![]() Gloria Vanderbilt’s parents, Gloria Morgan and Reggie Vanderbilt, the youngest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, married in 1923. ![]()
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