Anderson Cooper to get most of mom Gloria Vanderbilt's fortune: report

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Anderson Cooper to get most of mom Gloria Vanderbilt's fortune: report

Anderson Cooper is set to receive most of what his late mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, left behind, her newly filed will shows.

Page Six reports that Vanderbilt's will, which was filed on Monday in Manhattan surrogate court, leaves her lavish Midtown apartment to her oldest son, Leopold "Stan" Stokowski, and "all the rest" of her property will go to Cooper. Her estranged middle son, Chris Stokowski, who cut himself off from the family 40 years ago, will reportedly get nothing.

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Vanderbilt died on June 17 at the age of 95 after being diagnosed with an advanced form of stomach cancer, Cooper initially reported himself on CNN.

The revelation that Cooper will receive the majority of his mother's property (it is unclear what he'll get exactly and whether "all the rest" includes Vanderbilt's estimated $200 million fortune) follows speculation that he wasn't going to get anything from her, based on a 2014 interview with Howard Stern in which he said that, "my mom's made clear to me that there's no trust fund. There's none of that."

He went on to say, "I'm doing fine on my own. I don't need any. [...] I don't believe in inheriting money. I think it’s an initiative sucker, I think it’s a curse. Who's inherited a lot of money that has gone on to do things in their life? From the time I was growing up, if I felt like there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know if I would have been so motivated."

In a statement released after his jean designer mother's passing, Cooper paid tribute to the most important woman in his life.

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"Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms," Cooper said in a statement last month. "She was a painter, a writer and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife and friend ... She was 95 years old, but ask anyone close to her, and they’d tell you: She was the youngest person they knew – the coolest and most modern."

The anchor returned to his CNN show several days after his mother's death, telling viewers that he's been "lonely" since losing her.

"Being able to spend those nine days and nights with her was a great, great blessing. They were the most extraordinary days of my life, and I’m very grateful," he shared upon his return. "Though I was holding her hand and her head when she took her last breath, it’s still a little hard for me to believe that she’s gone."

Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, co-authored a book, "The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss," in which they corresponded back-and-forth for a year in order to leave nothing left unsaid between them, released in 2017.

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