Gloria Vanderbilt, Designer and Mother of CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Dies at 95

Watch Cooper’s eulogy to his mom

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Fashion designer, actress, heiress, artist and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt has died. She was 95.

Earlier this month, doctors discovered “very advanced cancer” in Vanderbilt’s stomach, her son Anderson Cooper said in a video that aired Monday morning on CNN.

Readers can watch Cooper eulogize his mom via the video below, which was posted to Twitter by Cooper’s CNN colleague Brian Stelter.

Vanderbilt, born in 1924, was married four times, and had four children, including Cooper.

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