High Priestess Gloria Vanderbilt Dies at 95 From the Daily Mail Gloria Vanderbilt - mother of CNN host Anderson Cooper and the 'poor little rich girl' at the center of a 1930s custody scandal who grew up in gilded age family to become an iconic fashion designer - dies at the age of 95 from stomach cancer. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7150271/BREAKING-NEW-Gloria-Vanderbilt-dies-age-95.html