6/6/2023 0 Comments Other powers barbara goldsmith![]() ![]() The result was a 650-page whopper, published in 1980, full to bursting with scandal, betrayal, extravagance and wealth beyond the dreams of avarice. ![]() For the next five years, she pored over the court records and conducted more than 300 interviews in seven countries. Goldsmith threw herself into the subject with abandon. It was one of the great headline-hogging trials of the age, and Ms. Goldsmith was doing research at a law library for a novel about the art world, “The Straw Man,” when she chanced upon four fat volumes labeled “In the Matter of Vanderbilt.” They contained 8,000 pages of court transcripts from the custody case that pitted Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gloria’s aunt, against the child’s mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, with a $2.5 million trust fund the glittering prize. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Barbara Goldsmith, Author of ‘Little Gloria,’ Dies at 85īarbara Goldsmith, a founding editor of New York magazine and the author of “Little Gloria … Happy at Last,” a best-selling account of the bitter 1934 custody battle over Gloria Vanderbilt, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. ![]()
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