In July 2019, the New York Post claimed that Anderson Cooper would receive just $1.5 million (£1.2m), which was “the total value of her estate at the time of her death.” However, official court documents revealed that Cooper also received the majority of his mother’s estate (though an exact figure was not revealed).

It seems likely that Cooper received his mother’s property assets, except for her Manhattan apartment that Vanderbilt’s eldest son, Leopold “Stan” Stokowski (pictured), received. Meanwhile her estranged son Christopher Stokowski received nothing.

Today, the substantial fortune built by the early Vanderbilts has almost entirely disappeared.

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