Gloria Vanderbilt

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and his second wife, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. She was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, each sought custody of her. The story of the trial was told in the 1980 Barbara Goldsmith book Little...