A Yale graduate, Frederick worked in several departments of the family-run New York Central Railroad, eventually becoming its director, as well as serving as the director of more than twenty railroads. [15] He is recorded as a regular guest at the Burford Bridge Hotel near Box Hill in Surrey where, when driving from London to Brighton, he would stop to take lunch and to collect telegrams. Its just the way things are done. To get in to remove their personal effects, they apparently now have to make an appointment and be escorted by Preservation Society employees. Far from it. William Henry Vanderbilt, the Commodores successor (who estimated he earned $19.73 a minute) left a fortune worth $200 million around $50 billion in todays terms when he died in 1885. In 1865, Cornelius Vanderbilt was the world's richest man, with a net worth of $75 billion in today's money "It will be helpful to us to be able to tell our visitors that the original owners' great-grandchildren continue to live in the house," the non-profits then-board president reportedly wrote in a letter to Paul and his younger sister, Gladys, in 1998. His Manhattan home on Fifth Avenue was known as Petit Chateau, built in the French Renaissance style, and featured a sixty-foot Grand Hall leading from the main entry into the home, of stone which was detailed in carvings and bas relief. Szchenyi's daughter, Countess Anthony Szpry, continued to live on the upper floor, as did her children following her death in 1998. and the chief executive of the Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga racetracks. The Vanderbilt name by the 1920s still carried the cachet of wealth, but the real wealth was being rapidly depleted. But Szpry, 67, won't be living there much longer. Birth. She said that the Szprys "did not agree to move out" and "were given a deadline and a legal ultimatum" (neither of her cousins has children, so it seems likely that the arrangement would have ended upon their deaths). Frederick had several residences in Manhattan, including on Fifth Avenue for a time and later at 10 East 40th Street, a building which he owned and which was and is considered an art-deco masterpiece. Evidently bored with railroads, he spent his portion of the Vanderbilt fortune, which increased upon the death of his father, by traveling, building several mansions, including a Newport summer home which he seldom used, and by yachting. Other community members are similarly up in arms, and have been for years; a 2013 New York Times article on the visitor center proposal notes that "letters to editors are pouring in on both sides of the debate. Here are ten reasons one of the worlds wealthiest families simply ran out of money. A secretary desk once owned by Marie Antoinette was a prominently featured furnishing. Socialite Grace Wilson Vanderbilt spent Vanderbilt money with enthusiasm and aplomb. ", Trudy Coxe, executive director and CEO of the Preservation Society, has previously said, "We have always believed in the unique merits of the Breakers Welcome Center." Anyone can read what you share. Not to be outdone, Cornelius Vanderbilt IIs nearby summer pad, an Italianate palazzo named The Breakers, was completed in 1895, boasting 70 rooms and a footprint of an acre. In 1963 it was acquired by the Newport County Preservation Society. Vanderbilt opened the estate on Christmas Eve 1895, while work was still ongoing. Alfred was educated at Yale and was on a world tour when he learned of his fathers death while in Japan. [20] She was the daughter of Captain Isaac Edward Emerson (18591931) and Emily Askew Dunn (18541921), and was heiress to the Bromo-Seltzer fortune. The band was signed to Columbia Records and released If You Still Want Me and Have You Ever Loved A Girl, published by Scope Music Inc. (BMI) in November 1966, record JZSP 116493 and 116494. Like his brother Neily, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt contributed nothing to the family coffers. Subsequently, he was chosen a director in other companies as well, among them the Fulton Chain Railway Company, Fulton Navigation Company, Raquette Lake Railway Company, Raquette Lake Transportation Company, and the Plaza Bank of New York. Completed in 1892, it was builtfor Alva Vanderbilt as a 35th birthday present from her husband, William. Alfred Vanderbilt will give a talk about the camp, the family's history, and show never-before seen photographs of some of its famous guests. History proved him right. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt endowed it further and served on its board in the 1960s. Completely absurd. His remarkable achievements have earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. [28], After Alfred's death aboard the Lusitania in 1915, Margaret bought a 316-acre estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, with a 47-room mansion. But his zest for thoroughbred racing became diluted by his distress at the direction the sport was taking. He had made it. He became president of Pimlico in Baltimore in 1932 when he was 20 years old, and he revived interest in the Preakness, the second race in the Triple Crown series. $25/$20 members Tickets at www.matherhomestead.org . What he did would become harder because of what he did. His successors, variously, helped define the nothing succeeds likes excess mentality of the Gilded Age the flowering of a new American plutocracy at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century. He died on the RMS Lusitania. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt died in the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915. Coach house at the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park. I dont know of a museum in America that doesnt have a place to eat. NEWPORT Concerned residents have formed a committee to restore the bronze sculpted memorial to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr., who died in the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, and to move it to a more visible location. Prior to commencing his own agency, The Vanderbilt Agency, in New York City, in 1990 where he was president and chief executive officer before retiring in 2017. According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Gwynne's net worth was as high as $2 million, an amount earned through his successful acting career. The ship, owned by the Cunard Line, was built to dominate the highly lucrative transatlantic passenger trade. A special kind of private club where members receive offers and experiences from hand-picked, premium brands, as well as invites to exclusive events and the Bookazine delivered directly to their door. It was 26 March 1883 and the cream of Manhattan high society was arriving for the most lavish costumed ball in American history. Some say the move is payback for their. After completing the seemingly requisite Newport Mansion, (Rough Point, just off the Cliff Walk), Frederick built Pine Tree Point, an Adirondack camp on Upper Saint Regis Lake. [citation needed], Vanderbilt was a good judge of real estate values and projected several important enterprises. As he spent his portion of the Vanderbilt fortune more than 1,000 workers labored on the house, gardens, and outbuildings. His great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, had been one of Americas most revered businessmen; his great-great-grandfather, William Henry Vanderbilt had been the richest man in the world. In 1906 Margaret sold Woodlea to a New York businessman for the sum of $1.4 million, despite the property being valued at nearly $6 million. For onlookers this was the ultimate red carpet event. She has an older brother. he reflected as tracks began to lose significant attendance in the 1990's. The Vanderbilt fortune largely vanished because the Vanderbilt heirs spent it, on houses and estates, yachts and racing boats, limousines and luxury cars, antiques, art, clothes, parties, huge dinners, other entertainments, extensive travel, luxury cruises, and all of the trappings of the wealthy during the Gilded Age and beyond. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. By 1908 she had assumed the role of the Queen of New York society, based upon the spending of Vanderbilt money. [3][10] In the late 19th century, he and a number of other millionaires, such as James Hazen Hyde practiced the old English coaching techniques of the early 19th century. The memorial reads: "To the Memory of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who perished on the S.S. Lusitania in the Thirty-eighth year of his age May 7, 1915. For more than a century, the Vanderbilts were the epitome of the American Dream. Vanderbilt spent considerable time in London after the divorce,[17] and remarried there, on December 17, 1911,[18][19] to the wealthy American divorce Margaret Mary Emerson (18861960). "She was inspired by the idea of noblesse obligeshe wanted to benefit all of Newport and get people to see the architectural glories of the centuryand by making the choice I feel she really did, without realizing it, lead to this situation where her family members are being tossed out. Another part was his investments in real estate. [31][20][32], Vanderbilt was a sportsman, and he particularly enjoyed fox hunting and coaching. In May 2015, this moved to a much larger $422-million home designed by the architect of Londons Shard, Renzo Piano. The Sinking of the Lusitania, by Diane Preston, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2002, The Nineteenth Hole: Architecture of the Golf Clubhouse, by Richard Diedrich, 2008, Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt, by Dorothy Kelly McDowell, 1989, Are the Vanderbilt Heirs Being Forced Out of the Breakers?, by SAM DANGREMOND, Town & Country, JAN 18, 2018, Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the third son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, built the 33-room Newport mansion in 1909 as a love nest for his mistress, Agnes O'Brien Ruiz. She remarried twice, first on June 12, 1918, in Lenox Raymond T. Baker (18751935), a politician with whom she had a daughter, Gloria Baker (19201975). When Paul Szpry invited a girlfriend to his summer home in Newport as a young man, he told her he lived in a big house to prepare her for the fact that the "big house" was the Breakers, the 70-room Gilded Age mansion his great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt II built in 1893. She used part of the money to purchase a 47 room mansion in Massachusetts situated on 316 acres. Here are our sources: Fortunes Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt, by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, 1989, The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour, and Tragedy, by Clarice Stasz, 2000, The Vanderbilts, by Jerry E. Patterson, 1989, Biltmore Estate, by Ellen Erwin Rickman, 2005, Queen of Golden Age: The Fabulous Story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, by Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1956, Alva Vanderbilt: All Gilt, No Guilt, by SHEILA GIBSON STOODLEY, Boston Common, April 25, 2011, The Vanderbilts: How American Royalty Lost Their Crown Jewels, by Natalie Robehmed, Forbes Magazine, June 14, 2014, Torpedoed! [3] Soon after graduation, Vanderbilt, with a party of friends, started on a tour of the world which was to have lasted two years. ", Fleming believes there is another incentive for the Society to build the center: "What they really wanted to do is monetize the property as much as they could through corporate rentals, with the backdrop of the house providing a whole other income stream. "Visitors will soon find that the gilded cage was much more interesting when it still had the birds inside it," she said. 1873. The Vanderbilt Dress is up for auction, it starts at 100K and sealed bid. Margaret behielt das 1901 von Alfred G. Vanderbilt gekaufte Sagamore Camp. His great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, had been one of America's most revered businessmen; his great-great-grandfather, William Henry Vanderbilt had been the richest man in the world. Their seven children had their personal servants as well. Biltmore remained a residence, with parts of the house open as a museum, until 1956. He hired a forestry expert to manage the unimproved portion of the tract. Born in 1794 to a Dutch immigrant family, Cornelius Vanderbilt left school at 11 to work on his fathers ferry in New York Harbour. ; Vanderbilt Divorce Splits the Colony Into Factions", "MRS. ANTONIO RUIZ A SUICIDE IN LONDON; Was Mentioned in Connection with the Divorce Case of Alfred G. Vanderbilt. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, born in 1877, was the third son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Alice Claypoole Gwynne. ", The first sentence of the statement seems to acknowledge the Society wants access to the previously private space occupied by the brother and sister. ", The family seems to feel keenly the loss of their homeand the changes in store for the property. In 1946, when he was 32, he married Jeanne Murray of Southampton. While changes in tax laws, creating estate taxes and the income tax itself certainly had a part in the demise of the Vanderbilt fortune, the wealth of other great families survived. It created a truly national and international figure.. One aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), was an artist and a founder of the Museum of Modern Art; his uncles included Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873-1942), who was a brigadier general. He has organized Vanderbilt family reunions and lectures about the Vanderbilts. There are also the houses, many of which are museums, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was founded in 1930 by the artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, daughter of Cornelius II, with 500 works from her own collection. Still, he grasped changes that seemed likely to improve racing. I am moving soon. In 1940 he sold the New York mansion, with the proviso that he and his wife be allowed to remain in residence until his death. Oktober 1877 in New York City, New York; 7. . We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Harold ran the business until a hostile takeover in 1954 took it from family hands. Father. Vanderbilt did not follow his father into the family horse-racing business,[8] instead forming a career in public relations. By the mid-1920s most of the mansions in Manhattan were gone, by the 1950s all were, at least as residences. He also began drinking heavily. Servants at the camp dressed in Japanese costume. In short, just like the railways they managed, they ran out of puff. Topping, Jr. "Vanderbilt Left His Wife at Home; | Wealthiest Youth in America Expected to Make Only a Short Stay Abroad. [3] He is the father of James Platten Vanderbilt, son of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., and the grandson of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. A year ago, the Rhode Island Supreme Court Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling denying a challenge to the center that would prevent its construction, and last May the Preservation Society broke ground on the building, which will include indoor ticketing and food services. The huge fortune built by Cornelius Vanderbilt and his son William did not survive the ministrations of their subsequent heirs. Although the Vanderbilt family was in attendance at the cottage only a few weeks a year, during the summer social season when Newport was a fashionable resort, the stable and the household servants were at the house full time, year around. He launched an attempt to build a canal across Nicaragua, adds Stiles. Read about Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III net worth, age, wife, children, height, family, parents, salary, and business as well as other information you need to know. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (* 20. came from Bromo-Seltzer wealth, and his father, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, died after giving his life jacket to a woman on the . Whether it reached the debauched excesses of Baz Luhrmanns 2013 adaption of F Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby is doubtful, but we do know that the hostess, Alva Vanderbilt, wore the pearls of the 18th-century Russian Empress Catherine the Great. Alfreds death was reported by many who observed him assisting a young mother by giving her his own life jacket. (Vanderbilt and her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, declined to comment for this story. He was poorly educated, intensely competitive, and determined to learn any skill or knowledge required for success., Vanderbilts next big break came in 1849, with the Californian Gold Rush: he got involved in moving people from the East to the West and had a bold idea. . Vanderbilt started a Rock 'n Roll band called The Four Fifths in 1965. When his father died of a cerebral hemorrhage, Alfred was the primary inheritor of his $72 million estate, according to The Lusitania Resource. She hosted two types of dinner parties, large gatherings of over 100 people, and smaller, intimate dinners of fifty or so guests, an invitation to which was a mark of social success. Son. "It's utterly transparent when they use this specious excuse about the ventilation and plumbing and electrical wiring being unsafe for human habitation," Adams says. Marble House, which belonged to Alva, became a host for feminist rallies held by Alva in the early twentieth century, and Alva added a Chinese Tea House in which to address leaders of the womens suffrage and temperance movements. Through his daughter, the estate passed to the Cecil family, British aristocrats. For onlookers this was the ultimate red carpet event. The dedication was on January 1, 1910.[38]. The exception is one of the so-called Marble Twins built by George Washington Vanderbilt, now home to Versaces flagship store. [1] Early life [ edit] Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt IIIs salary per month and other career earnings are over $800,000 dollars annually. There has been some historical confusion as to which member of the Vanderbilt family was booked on the Titanic and recent studies have determined that his uncle George Washington Vanderbilt II was actually booked to travel on the Titanic along with his wife Edith and daughter Cornelia, not Alfred Vanderbilt. Among its founders was Cornelius Vanderbilt III. Neily did so, after which he entered the army, mostly to escape his wife and family. One of his neighbors, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, used portions of the estate to house Secret Service agents when he visited his own Hyde Park estate years later as President of the United States. Gladys and Paul Szpry will no longer occupy a third-floor apartment of the Gilded Age mansion built by their great-grandfather Cornelius Vanderbilt II. The staffing increased when the various Vanderbilts were in residence. Land continued to be sold to defray expenses, and the estate shrank steadily. Yet surrounded by family history, wealth and opportunity, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt took a direct route to the racetrack and spent his life breeding, owning and racing his horses. No Divorce, Say Fam1ly; Separation Said to Have Been Arranged Amicably Mrs. McKim a Daughter of I.E. Wikimedia. The canal, of course, was never built, but he started to combine steamships and transit operations across Nicaragua. The sum was inadequate, and the expenses of the two houses ate deeply into the Vanderbilt fortune. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sr. (October 20, 1877 - May 7, 1915) was an extremely wealthy American businessman and sportsman, and a member of the famous Vanderbilt family. In March of 1883, Alva held a housewarming party which was attended by over 1,000 invited guests. In addition to playing in film and on television, Gwynne also worked as a singer, which improved his wealth too. Where do we find this stuff? Today, if you look for the Petit Chateau on Fifth Avenue youll find an outlet of Zara because it was demolished in 1926. Another brother, William, had died years earlier. When he came to New York in 1940 as president of Belmont, he promptly gave priority to installing the new parimutuel system, which replaced bookmakers at tracks the following spring. ), The planned welcome center will be located inside the main gate of the Breakers, on the site of a current ticketing tent (then-board chairman Donald O. Ross discusses it in the 2013 video below). His courtships and marriages were regular staples of the newspaper society pages in those days, when the terms ''playboy'' and ''sportsman'' were in vogue. But as his biographer TJ Stiles points out, young Cornelius was the right man at the right time in the right place. He left 95% of his vast estate to his son William and Williams four sons. Ruiz's Name in Case Nothing In the Papers Referring to Alimony or Any Financial Arrangement", "SOCIAL WAR AT NEWPORT. 1821. But after a series of bitter divorces, poor financial decisions and high-profile fallouts, the worlds richest family came off the rails. It's all very well to say you'll attract money if you offer casino gambling. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. net worth is. Reginald was a grandson of william Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885), and great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877). It's appalling.". While the statement is identified as a "joint announcement" from the society and the family, suggesting an amicable parting, Paul and Gladys's cousin Jamie Wade Comstock, whose great-grandfather Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt died on the Lusitania, says there's more to the story. One of the first things he did as president of Pimlico was to introduce the Western starting gate to Maryland, ending the era of confused or delayed starts. Alfred didnt squander the Vanderbilt fortune, but his early death allowed others of his family to do so. Fredericks estate was worth just less than $80 million when he died, and after several charitable donations most of went to a niece, Margaret Van Alen. The Breakers continued to erode the Vanderbilt wealth until 1948 when it was leased to the Newport Preservation Society. On the site of the former residence of the Vanderbilt family and on several adjacent plots, he built the Vanderbilt Hotel at Park Avenue and 34th Street, New York, which he made his city home. The majority of the fortune went to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, his parents' fifth child, while the balance went to Reginald and his two sisters. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II. Cornelius developed the reputation of being a scrupulous and hard-working banker, traits which were heartily approved by his grandfather, who left him $5 million in his will. Alfred perished when Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May Day, 1915. Vanderbilts horses were highly successful in France, and he became a noted breeder and racing magnate. But first, a stroke of luck: in 1817, the Commodore met ferry business owner Thomas Gibbons, who asked him to captain his steamboat between New York and New Jersey. A model village was included on the estate, housing most of the workers. The decline in Vanderbilt income coincided with the sales of many of the properties, including Vanderbilt Row, the strip along New Yorks Fifth Avenue which once held the Manhattan mansions of several members of the clan. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877 - 1915), 37, from New York City, New York, . The difficulty in becoming an American aristocrat is you have to keep proving that youre aristocratic and youre a dominant business figure. It was not an auspicious beginning. Although his son William nearly doubled the fortune left to him by his father, by 1973, when the Vanderbilts held a family reunion at their namesake university, not one of the 120 attendees was a millionaire. Frederick Vanderbilt was the brother of Cornelius II and William K. Vanderbilt, as well as of George Washington Vanderbilt, and five sisters. He attended the St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University . Birth. [24][25] Together, Alfred and Margaret had two children: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (19121999),[26] businessman and racehorse breeder,[27] and George Washington Vanderbilt III (19141961), yachtsman and a scientific explorer. Subscribe here. May 7, 1915 American multi-millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt died a hero on this day trying to save women and children aboard the liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German U-boat. That stunk to high heaven. When William Vanderbilt began building his Fifth Avenue mansion, one of several which would be erected by various Vanderbilts, he was the wealthiest person in the world, and according to his own words, frustrated by his wealth. When is someone going to stand up to these bullies? The core of the fortune shrunk, reducing its earning power. Vanderbilt said, If I couldnt run a steamship alongside my competitor for 20 per cent less, I would just quit it, adds Stiles, who compares him to modern figures such as Sir Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. This article is taken from our January/February issue. They failed as a family., Also the pressure started to get to them: A good number of the Vanderbilts werent very happy the males especially, adds McGerr. Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. In physical terms, theres Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, endowed with $1 million by the Commodore in 1873, and regarded by many as the greatest single legacy of the family. On May 1, 1915,[39] Vanderbilt boarded the RMSLusitania bound for Liverpool as a first class passenger. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt died in the sinking of RMS Lusitania in 1915. The band was signed to Columbia Records and released "If You Still Want Me" and "Have You Ever Loved A Girl", published by Scope Music Inc. (BMI) in November 1966, record JZSP 116493 and 116494.[4][5][6][7]. The gesture only encouraged Grace to spend yet more, demanding her husband purchase for her a steam yacht. Library of Congress. The country club retained much of the gardens and the house served as its clubhouse and event center. Cornell University Library. ''Since the first time I went to the races at Pimlico at the age of 9,'' Mr. Vanderbilt once said, ''I have had this wonderful feeling about racing. And despite the spending, the next head of the family, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, continued to make the familys empire thrive, dutifully running the business with his brother, William. It's like the person who goes to the circus and falls in love with the whole show, not just the elephants.''. Built on a cliff and with a footprint of about one acre, on a fourteen-acre lot, the house contains 70 rooms on five floors and was built in the style of the Italian Renaissance. The man known as the Commodore lived frugally, a virtue he suspected absent from the character of most of his children. [30], By the terms of his will, Margaret and his three sons would inherit $1,180,098.18. The Breakers is but one of the massive houses along the cliffs at Newport, but it is the largest and grandest. Cornelius Vanderbilt II was the eldest son of William Vanderbilt, and was said to be the Commodores favorite grandson. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Some say the move is payback for their opposition of a welcome center on the grounds. Not all of them were up to it., Then there were the divorces. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. (October 20, 1877 - May 7, 1915) was a wealthy American businessman, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper with lover Frank Sinatra and his son Frank Jr. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. (October 20, 1877 May 7, 1915) was a wealthy American businessman, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. He and his wife Alison had two children, James Platten Vanderbilt and Travis Murray Vanderbilt, before divorcing in 2016. Garden Sale in Aid of Hartley House", "2 Witnesses Heard in Vanderbilt Suit; Valet of Alfred G. and a Woman, Supposedly His Wife's Maid, Testify in Secret. He was president of the Westchester Racing Association, which operated Belmont Park before the New York Racing Association was incorporated in 1955, and for four years starting in 1971 served as chairman of the board of the N.Y.R.A. New Dorp, Richmond County (Staten Island), New York, USA Show Map. A memorial fountain to Vanderbilt is in Vanderbilt Park on Broadway in Newport, Rhode Island, where many members of the Vanderbilt family spent their summers. Vanderbilt hired Japanese workers after the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition to build Japanese-style structures, and remodel the existing buildings in Japanese style. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III (born December 20, 1949) [1] is a retired public relations executive. He died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. After his divorce from Alva (he was unfaithful and it cost him a $10 million settlement) he built a chateau in France, and three thoroughbred horse racing tracks nearby in 1907. .css-1du65oy{color:#323232;display:block;font-family:NewParis,Georgia,Times,serif;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:0.3125rem;margin-top:0;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;-webkit-font-smoothing:auto;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-1du65oy:hover{color:link-hover;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 40.625rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.2;}}@media(min-width: 64rem){.css-1du65oy{font-size:1.3125rem;line-height:1.2;}}Alex Murdaugh's Murder Trial Is Ongoing, Damien Hirst Donated More than $10 Million to NHS, How to Help After Earthquake Hits Turkey, Syria, Jeff Bezos Pledges to Donate Most of His Wealth, Mastermind Behind Varsity Blues Gets 3.5 Years. But that does not explain the near extinction of Vanderbilt wealth. 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