What is the Vanderbilt fortune worth today?

Vanderbilt left a fortune worth $100 million upon his death in 1870 ($2,300,000,000 today). As the United States became the foremost economic power in the world by the late 19th century, the wealthiest men in America were often also the wealthiest men in the world.



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From her father's first marriage to Cathleen Neilson, she had one elder half-sister, Cathleen Vanderbilt. Upon their father's death from cirrhosis when Vanderbilt was 18 months old, she and her half-sister became heiresses to a half share each in a $5 million trust fund, equivalent to $83 million in 2022 value.

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Consuelo's children, John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill and Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill share a common ancestor with Princess Diana; his name was James Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn. The Duke of Abercorn was their great-grandfather and is Prince William's 4th great-grandfather.

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Consuelo Vanderbilt is the third of her name — her great great grandmother and great great great aunt were both Consuelo Vanderbilts — and is the third cousin, twice removed, of Anderson Cooper, the CNN journalist.

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Though the family stopped living in the mansion in the 1950s, it is still owned and run as a tourist attraction by the fourth generation of Vanderbilt descendants.

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Around 1932, reportedly finding life at Biltmore too dull, she moved to New York City to briefly study art, leaving her husband to manage Biltmore.

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