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The life of the 92-year-old designer, artist, and heiress is the subject of the new documentary Nothing Left Unsaid, but the film fails to explain Vanderbilt’s decades-long estrangement from her son, Chris Stokowski.
The Gloria Vanderbilt movie goes into great detail about her relationships with sons Anderson Cooper and her late son, Carter Cooper, but Gloria’s son, Chris, is barely mentioned, and their estrangement isn’t explained at all.
According to Page Six, Chris Stokowski is Gloria Vanderbilt’s son with conductor Leopold Stokowski, and he cut himself off from Gloria and her family nearly 40 years ago, when he was just 26-years-old, after a bizarre incident involving Vanderbilt’s shrink.
Chris Stokowski reportedly stopped speaking to his mother in 1978 after Gloria Vanderbilt’s psychiatrist at the time, Dr. Christ L. Zois, allegedly interfered with his relationship with his then-fiancée, April Sandmeyer.
Sandmeyer told Page Six that Vanderbilt probably didn’t mention her estrangement from Chris out of respect for him.
Decades later, Sandmeyer refuses to explain what exactly happened with Dr. Zois, but she says Gloria Vanderbilt’s relationship with her former therapist was far from normal.
In addition to Anderson and Carter, Gloria had sons Stan and Chris with Leopold Stokowski.
While Chris Stokowski is glossed over in the new Nothing Left Unsaid documentary, he wasn’t mentioned in Gloria Vanderbilt’s 1996 memoir A Mother’s Story either.
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