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Dirty money: Inside scandal-ridden legacy of the Vanderbilt dynasty who clawed their way to the foremost of high culture despite bitter family dramas - before squandering away their wealth - as Anderson Cooper prepares to tell their story on the small screen
Anderson Cooper is taking his family's drama to the small screen with a television adaptation of his guide about the Vanderbilt dynasty after saying their scandalous history is like 'The Crown on steroids.'
The CNN anchor, 55, teamed up with historian and novelist Katherine Howe to record about his ancestors' legacy in Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, which was published in 2021.
Amazon Prime Video is developing a drama series based on the novel, titled Vanderbilt, Deadline reported on Wednesday. Patrick Macmanus, who created the shows Dr. Death and The Girl from Plainville, will write the script and executive produce.
Anderson will also executive produce the project, which is being billed as 'an epic drama chronicling four hundred years of the rise and descent of one of America’s most strong dynasties.'
Anderson Cooper's manual about his family history - Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dyn
American Girls Art Club In Paris. . . and Beyond
It seems that everywhere I go, I bump into John Singer Sargent.
During my travels this summer, by way of a fortunate upgrade, I checked into the John Singer Sargent suite at the Inn on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. I planned to tour the Vanderbilt Estate the next day.
The view from the Sargent Suite at the Inn on Biltmore Estate. The Estate itself is perched on a distant hill to the left of this frame.
Apparently, George Vanderbilt was America’s biggest patron of John Singer Sargent. I had no idea. But it makes instinct. Sargent was an expert at cultivating the kind of wealthy friends and contacts who could afford an luxurious commissioned portrait.
Just out of curiosity, I tried to analyze how much a Sargent portrait commission would have require in the delayed 1880s and 1890s, the height of his portrait career. I read somewhere that Sargent was charging $100,000 per commission at that time, but it was not a reliable primary origin. And would that be present value? (If you comprehend, please comment below.)
In any event, Vanderbilt could obviously give whatever Sargent was charging. He commissio
Pink-Haired Heiress: The Picaresque Post-Biltmore Life of Cornelia Vanderbilt
Her 10-year marriage to British aristocrat John Cecil concluded, Cornelia Vanderbilt left the 250-room Asheville, North Carolina mansion, never to return.
More than likely, you’re familiar with George W. Vanderbilt’s imprint on Asheville, North Carolina.
After a trip to Asheville with his mother in 1888, he rapidly scooped up 125,000 acres and hired the foremost artisans and environmental experts in the world to create his massive Biltmore Estate.
He named it Biltmore from the Dutch town of his ancestors named Bildt and the English word more, which refers to rolling, mountainous countryside. It remains America’s largest private residence, with 250 rooms, including a palatial dining room, a library with more than 23,000 volumes, a bowling alley, a 70,000-gallon indoor swimming pool and servants’ quarters.
But have you heard about the pink-haired heiress who left the estate in the hands of her estranged husband to pursue her Bohemian whims?
Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, the only child of George and Edith Vanderbilt, made life choice
- Name: George Washington Vanderbilt
- Born: November 14, 1862, New Dorp, Staten Island, New York
- Parents: William Henry Vanderbilt, Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt
- Spouse: Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, married 1898–1914
- Child: Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt
- Notable Projects: Biltmore Home, Biltmore Forest School, All Souls Church, Biltmore Village
- Death: March 6, 1914, Washington D.C.
Images of George Washington Vanderbilt
Portrait of George Vanderbilt around age 12, circa 1873
George Vanderbilt with newborn daughter Cornelia on the Loggia of Biltmore House, September 30, 1900
George Vanderbilt (seated, third from left) with unidentified gondola companions in Venice, 1887.
Afternoon tea on the Loggia, May 1903
Left to right, Edith Vanderbilt, Mademoiselle Rambaud (Edith Vanderbilt's former chaperone),
Lila Vanderbilt Webb (George's sister), Mary Webb (Lila's sister in law),
Isabella Stewart Gardner, William Blodgett II, and George Vanderbilt
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