Anderson Cooper is Cornelius Vanderbilt’s great-grandson.
Anchor and host Anderson Cooper is the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the shipping and railroad magnate whose familial wealth was once more than the US treasury. His mother, Gloria Vanderbilt was the granddaughter of Cornelius, but Cooper remembers deciding to start work early, considering the family fortunes were much diminished by the time he was in his teens.
Personally, I am related to Julius Caesar, Ghandi and Mozart.
I’m probably at worst a 25th cousin of every celeb on this list. (I think I actually am a ninth or tenth cousin of the late Princess Diana.)
We’re both descended ffom William I.
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*historical figure, not celeb