36. Vanderbilt Family Values | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today, we begin our investigation into the storied Gilded Age American family, the Vanderbilts. We'll start with the second generation, where no one was shy about their wealth, with the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt, and their seven children. It is a wild ride of 70 years of one family's history that encompasses weddings, divorces, deaths, and a name that is inextricably tied to a time in the life of America.

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.com.uk slash wondering.
0:11.4	Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.
0:19.3	Today in our episode, we are launching an investigation into
0:23.3	Vanderbilt Family Values. The story I plan to tell you this week, that of Gertrude
0:30.7	Vanderbilt and her niece, Gloria Vanderbilt, in the infamous custody battle of 1934 simply cannot happen without some backstory.
0:40.5	1934 is an infamous year in the Vanderbilt family, but it does not quite take on the nuance and drama
0:47.2	without all the juicy news and scoop that's coming your way in today's episode.
0:53.0	Before we begin, I want to take a moment to peer into our spyglass and give enormous thanks
0:58.5	to our newest Patreon supporters on Done and Done.
1:02.1	Thank you, thank you, Jocelyn H and I to G.
1:05.6	Y'all are the very best, getting your episodes ad-free and early, bonus episodes too over at our done-and-done
1:12.7	community. So grateful to the both of you, so grateful to all of the supporters over there,
1:18.6	and so grateful to you for coming to listen today to what is going to be about 70 years of a family
1:24.9	history that you couldn't make up if you tried unless it was completely
1:29.7	true. Holy cats. What, it is quite a ride.
1:59.3	In order to tell, effectively, I think the story of the 1934
2:03.1	custody battle, we have to begin our investigation today with Cornelius Vanderbilt
2:09.0	the second and his wife, Alice Claypool Gwynne. This is one of those stories that I started out
2:16.4	with an idea and investigated a bit and realized there was a larger mystery at play.
2:24.4	We already know a little bit about Cornelius too.
2:27.5	He is the favorite grandson of the Commodore, the first Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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