After a life spent in the spotlight, American heiress, socialite, and fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt has died at the age of 95, her son Anderson Cooper announced on CNN this morning. The cause was stomach cancer, Cooper said.
Though at different times in her life she worked as a stage and TV actress, model, textile designer, and artist, Vanderbilt was best known for her extravagant social life and her close friendships with the likes of Truman Capote and Diane von Furstenberg and romances with Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes, and Sidney Lumet. With an old-world patrician's accent and an instinctive sense of style, she and the images of her impeccably decorated apartments captivated onlookers for decades.
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