Personal Life
He married heiress Gloria Vanderbilt on December 24, 1963; Cooper was her fourth husband. The couple frequently appeared on the national "best-dressed" list. They had two sons, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965–1988) and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper (b. 1967). "It is in the family that we learn almost all we ever know of loving," Wyatt Cooper wrote in his 1975 memoir. "In my sons' youth, their promise, their possibilities, my stake in immortality is invested."
Wyatt Cooper died on January 5, 1978, in New York City during open heart surgery, aged 50.
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