Family and Legacy
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was married four times. His first marriage was to Marie Norton from 1923–1929; they had two children, Harry Payne Whitney II and Nancy Marie Whitney. His second marriage was to Gladys Crosby Hopkins from 1931 to 1940; they had one daughter, Gayle. His third marriage was to Eleanor Searle, from 1941 to 1957; they had one son, Searle. His last marriage was in 1958 to Marie Louise Schroeder (Marylou Whitney); they had one daughter, Cornelia. Over the 1920s Whitney successfully fended off several million dollar law suits filed by former Ziegfeld Follies dancer Evan-Burrows Fontaine charging him with breach of promise and paternity of her son.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney died in 1992 in Saratoga Springs, New York and is buried there in the Greenridge Cemetery.
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