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It's like The Crown on steroids': Anderson Cooper lifts lid on his Vanderbilt family's scandalous legacy in new book including fortune founder Cornelius who put wife in asylum so he could have affair with governess and clairvoyant sisters



CNN journalist, Anderson Cooper, 54, spotlights his own family history in his latest book: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The salacious book raises the curtain on the private lives, immense tragedies, dozens of affairs, suicides and enormous glamour of the storied and scandalous dynasty; 'It's like The Crown on steroids' he said

Cooper is the son of socialite, Gloria Vanderbilt; and the great-great-great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt amassed $100m ($2.6b in today's money) fortune from his vast railroad and shipping holdings and was considered the richest man in the world by the time he died in 1877....


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