Vanderbilt was present at the time and pleaded with her son to come away from the edge of the terrace before he jumped, a fact which naturally haunted her in the ensuing decades of her life. They had no children together. "I think she respects [Chriss] privacy and [not mentioning him] is out of love for him," Sandmeyer told Page Six at the time of the film's release. While Anderson continues to anchor his show for CNN, he also serves as a contributor on CBS's 60 Minutes and briefly hosted a short-lived talk show, called Anderson Live. "You had all of these papers scrapping to get a scoop," says Belsky, author of Blonde Ice and other thrillers featuring reporters. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. More From Town &. When a lawyer asked if she had ever witnessed improper conduct from Gloria Morgan, she said yes, and explained: Mrs. She knows he doesnt want to be in the public eye. It gave her such a boost. Tabloid newspapers in New York City were already known for their sensational coverage of millionaires sordid behavior, such as in 1926 when a famous 51-year-old multimillionaire married a 15-year-old high school student. [24] In the period from 1982 to 2002, L'Oreal launched eight fragrances under the brand name Gloria Vanderbilt. [4][15][18] Following his death, his young widow became the administrator of a $2.5 million trust left to their daughter, Gloria, and spent the better part of the next six years living in Paris, Biarritz, and London, with her mother and child and often in the company of her sisters and brother, all of whom lived in France and England with their respective spouses. They divorced four years after their wedding, when Vanderbilt was 21. But when Judge Carew spoke to her in chambers, no lawyers, media, or family members present, Gloria said repeatedly that she hated and feared her mother. She was also awarded $300,000 by the New York City Bar Association. Gloria Vanderbilt's Beekman Place Apartment Is for Sale Anderson Cooper is selling his mother's perpetually reimagined two-bedroom, where she lived for nearly 25 years, for $1.125. "My . Goldsmith's theory was that news reports of the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping terrified her, and she associated her mother's attempts to secure her with a kidnapping leading to child murder. [24] Vanderbilt's fourth marriage was to author Wyatt Emory Cooper, on December 24, 1963. They had also covered salacious court cases, like the trial for the 1927 murder that inspired Double Indemnity. Better known as Stan, Stokowski is Vanderbilt's oldest child, born in 1950, during her marriage to conductor Leopold Stokowski. She was the second of his four wives. Gloria Vanderbilt Facts 1. But by that point, Gloria had found success in fashion with a line of dark, tight-fitting jeans whose back pockets were embroidered with her name. Her Father Died When She Was a Baby, Leading to a Fierce Custody Battle Between Her Mother & Her Aunt. Vanderbilt earned a fortune of $200 million, and she has left a will. The marriage lasted a decade and she then wed her third husband, Hollywood director Sidney Lumet. As a teenager, she tried to avoid the spotlight, but reporters and cameramen followed her everywhere,Cooper said in a statement to CNN when she died. The heir to the Vanderbilt railroad fortune, she spent most of her life in the public eye, sometimes to her chagrin. [30][31] This time, the case was brought before the Supreme Court of the United States. Gloria Vanderbilts Beekman Place Apartment Is for Sale, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/realestate/gloria-vanderbilt-home-sale.html, Collages by Ms. Vanderbilt, and on the fireplace, which she hand-painted, a quote paraphrased from Einstein: The distance between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent. (Some of her personal items have since been removed for the listing of the property.). In the apartment, things would come and go. That title instead went to acclaimed American film director Sidney Lumet in 1955. When the two divorced seven years later, they remained on good terms. Of all the principals involved in various trials of the century (and there have been many) no one was more horrified by the accompanying publicity than the deeply private Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. "Anybody would do anything to get the story. A world-famous conductor, the English-born Stokowski was more than 40 years Vanderbilt's senior when they met, but that didn't stop them from swiftly falling in love. Gertrude enrolled her niece in school; little Gloria's health improved. [39] In November 2010, Vanderbilt was the subject of a new book chronicling her life, The World of Gloria Vanderbilt,[40] written by Wendy Goodman, New York magazine's design editor. Follow her on Twitter at @MsBeckyLittle. [23], From 1954 to 1963, Vanderbilt applied herself to acting. Gloria Vanderbilt with . She died at the age of 95. [9] The control of Vanderbilt's share while she was a minor belonged to her mother, who traveled to and from Paris for years, taking her daughter with her. Ms. Goodmans 2010 book, The World of Gloria Vanderbilt, contains photographs of it and its grand predecessors. See the corners of her eyes, how they turn up? Not every wound is completely healed perhaps. Web. Maury Paul, who wrote the hugely influential "Cholly Knickerbocker" column (he coined the terms "caf society" and "Old Guard") backed Gloria's mother all the way. With no television or Internet, the newspapers of the 1930s ruled absolutely, and there were a dozen papers fighting for readers in New York City alone. [27] In 1976, Indian designer Mohan Murjani's Murjani Corporation proposed launching a line of designer jeans carrying Vanderbilt's signature embroidered on the back pocket, as well as her swan logo. Ms. Vanderbilt, enthusiastic and questing, was not the sort of person to leave a surface untouched. Their noses are like begonias, with full-blown nostrils, their lips richly carved, and they should have been painted by Sargent, with arrogant heads and affected hands, in white satin with a bowl of white peonies near by. More, more, more." Vanderbilt told People in 2016. In April 1945, within weeks of divorcing DiCicco, Vanderbilt married conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was 42 years her senior. Get the best of Fox News' entertainment coverage, right in your inbox. Vanderbilt died in 1965 of cancer and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.[36]. Cooper called his mother's trial "the O.J. As Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt wrote in her 1936 memoirs, Without Prejudice (E P Dutton), "Had I not thought myself a minor at this time there would have been no necessity for a guardian for myself [or] for a legal guardian for my child's person . On this untruthirrevocable and irremediablehinged the currents of my child's life and my own. The New York Journal American composed the ditty: "Rockabye baby/Up on a writ/ Monday to Friday, Mother's unfit/As the week ends she rises in virtue/Saturdays, Sundays, Mother won't hurt you. Now New Yorkers learned of the bitter battle over Gloria Vanderbilt, with one of the partiesGertrude Whitneylabeled "the richest woman in the world. By the time he was 42, his doctors were pleading with him to give up alcohol or else he'd be dead. In Little GloriaHappy At Last, Goldsmith puzzled over why the child was so violently opposed to her mother when she met with Carew. [24] With her company, she launched dresses, blouses, sheets, shoes, leather goods, liqueurs, and accessories. Ms. Vanderbilt, enduringly optimistic, believed in maintaining an attitude of romantic readiness, as she often said. Morgan, who adopted the name Gloria as a teenager, had five siblings: Gloria Morgan was educated by governesses and in convents in Europe as well as New York City, where she attended the Catholic Convent of the Sacred Heart (in the Manhattanville section of the city), the Skerton Finishing School, and Miss Nightingale's School. Decorating is autobiography, she often said, and 30 Beekman Place, her home for nearly a quarter century, tells a vibrant story. She added that the testimony, which continued for five hours, was a blistering tale no skin lotion could soothe. Together they raised Vanderbilt's two sons with Stokowski and had two of their own. [17], In 1941, aged 17, Vanderbilt went to Hollywood, where she became the second wife of Pat DiCicco, an agent for actors and an alleged mobster. Find History on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Find History on Twitter (Opens in a new window), Find History on YouTube (Opens in a new window), Find History on Instagram (Opens in a new window), Find History on TikTok (Opens in a new window), the women went to court to fight for custody, a famous 51-year-old multimillionaire married a 15-year-old high school student, the trial for the 1927 murder that inspired, Gloria Vanderbilt later said of her mother, Cooper said in a statement to CNN when she died, https://www.history.com/news/gloria-vanderbilt-custody-trial-great-depression, Why the Custody Battle for Young Gloria Vanderbilt Riveted Depression-Era America. She was 95. However, the conditions of Vanderbilt's will and the custody of their child were complicated by the general belief that his widow had not reached the legal age of majority, which meant that she required a guardian. [18] Actress Jennifer Dundas played Gloria. At age 17, Vanderbilt dropped out of high school in order to marry the talent agent "Pat" DiCicco against the wishes of her aunt who had served as Vanderbilt's guardian growing up. [24][34], Vanderbilt studied art at the Art Students League of New York. She was born Gloria Laura Vanderbilt in February 1924 to Reginald "Reggie" Claypoole Vanderbilt, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and teenage mother Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. case of its day, except bigger, because nothing like it had ever happened before.". ProQuest. Constance Morgan (18871892), a half sister, a child of her father's first marriage to Mary E. Edgerton. For weekly email updates on residential real estate news, sign up here. She would look at me, and say, "I love you, too. [12] In October 1921, with their father's permission, Morgan and her sister Thelma, both reportedly 16 years of age, ended their schooling and moved by themselves into an apartment at 40 Fifth Avenue, a private townhouse. Attorneys for the little girl's mother had produced teams of letters in which the 10-year-old professed to her mother how much she loved and missed her. The court also removed Vanderbilt as administrator of her daughter's trust fund, whose annual investment income had been her only source of support. "He would take my head and bang it against the wall," Vanderbilt said, "I had black eyes."[47]. Cooper's mother was Gloria Vanderbilt, known for her designer jeans, and as the so-called "Poor Little Rich Girl" at the center of an infamous Depression-era custody battle between her own. They had two sons: Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (January 27, 1965 July 22, 1988), who committed suicide at age 23 by jumping to his death from the family's 14th-floor apartment,[34][49][50] and Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967), a CNN news anchor. Though Stokowski, who among his other accolades conducted the symphonies for the Disney film Fantasia, encouraged Vanderbilt's artistic pursuits, he also kept her socially isolated and Vanderbilt became unhappy after a time. A family dispute over who should have guardianship of a shy and sickly 10-year-old heiress, Gloria Vanderbilt, had escalated into the "trial of the century." He had previously been married to the film star Thelma Todd, also known as "The Ice Cream Blonde," who starred alongside Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers in more than 100 films and shorts. Gertrude Whitney's attorney, Frank Crocker, instructed Gloria in a series of private "sessions" on what to say to the judge, including telling made-up stories of being hurt by her mother's former lover, the German prince. While appearing as a guest on her son Anderson Cooper's television talk show, Anderson on September 19, 2011, Vanderbilt referred to comedian and actress Kathy Griffin as her "fantasy daughter". On a wall is Mr. Coopers spooky baby picture, taken by Diane Arbus. Vanderbilts second marriage was to conductor Leopold Stokowski, a man four decades her senior. Vanderbilt and her son,. She was particularly noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Thelma, Lady Furness, This page was last edited on 28 April 2023, at 16:00. The Vanderbilts had long been a clan of extremesparties, mansions, marriagesthat made for great copy. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. From the 1940s until their deaths, Gloria and her sister Thelma, Lady Furness, lived together in New York City and in Los Angeles, California. Granted limited parental rights, Vanderbilt was allowed to see young Gloria on weekends in New York. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. "He would take my head and bang it against the wall," she told the Telegraph in 2004. It became the subject, in 1980, of a bestseller by Barbara Goldsmith, .css-gegin5{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#9a0500;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-gegin5:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}Little GloriaHappy at Last, and a 1982 miniseries starring Bette Davis, Christopher Plummer, and Angela Lansbury. It was only after years in America when the girls at the Sacred Heart Convent shortened it to 'Mercy' and I did not like it, that I changed it to Gloria". She always felt the next great love affair or the next great adventure was right around the corner, said Mr. Cooper, whose worldview is somewhat gloomier. Ms. Vanderbilt, famously candid (she once wrote an erotic novel, and sent the galleys to Mr. Cooper), was more than game. "[20], Influenced by reports from private detectives as well as family servants and Laura Morgan (who appears by all published accounts to have been somewhat emotionally and mentally unbalanced and who testified on Mrs. Whitney's side at the trial),[21][22] members of the Vanderbilt family came to believe that Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was a bad influence and neglectful of her daughter. During the 1930s, she was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, each sought custody of her and control over her trust fund. Theres none of that, Cooper told Stern. But as it happens, she did live on in her apartment, a layered, sumptuous jewel box of a place that looks like something out of The Arabian Nights, draped with swoops of orange silk, lacquered pink walls, mirrored halls, Russian icons and chandeliers from which Christmas ornaments hang year round. It would solve the problem she had suddenly detected in the room. [36], In 2001, Vanderbilt returned to art and opened her first art exhibition, "Dream Boxes", at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester; it was a critical success. She kept finding her own style in deeper ways as she got older, said Ben Brantley, former chief theater critic of The New York Times and a close friend. Here's everything you need to know about the men who filled her life as both a wife and a mother. She added, "I'd be married to him today, if he had not died.". John W. Henderson in 1919 in New York. But Gertrude Whitney opposed itGloria Morgan Vanderbilt was an "unfit" mother. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, She also had other relationships. Dressed in a fox fur, hat, and gloves, the 59-year-old founder of the Whitney Museum, accompanied by her lawyer Frank Crocker, headed silently up the 32 steps leading to the Corinthian-columned Supreme Court of the State of New York. But in her memoir, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Gloria Vanderbilt herself clears it up once and for all. American artist, author, actress, and designer (19242019). In 1955 she appeared on Broadway as Elsie in a revival of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Vanderbilt was raised amidst luxury at her aunt Gertrude's mansion in Old Westbury, Long Island, surrounded by cousins her age who lived in houses circling the vast estate, and in New York City. A grateful Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt hurried back to Europe and didn't see her child again for many months. [12] As a result of her spending habits, her mother's use of finances was scrutinized by the child's paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. One-third of New York City residents lived in tenement housing, and $1,745 was the average annual family income. In her book with youngest child Anderson Cooper, she seems to have come to terms with her tumultuous life. Vanderbilt said her understanding of homosexuality was largely shaped by the public gossip surrounding her own mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. ", After more than seven weeks of extensively reported testimony, Judge Carew ruled in favor of Gertrude Whitney. A sculptor and art patron, Gertrude used her family wealth and position to launch a museum devoted to American painters. Visitation was also closely watched to ensure that Vanderbilt's mother did not exert any undue influence upon her daughter with her supposedly "raucous" lifestyle. Anderson Cooper's mom, Gloria, was born into the Vanderbilt family, one of the richest families in America in the 1800s and early 1900s who made their fortune in the railroad business. Despite the romance with SinatraVanderbilt would remain friends with the singer to the end of his lifeit was not the crooner who became her third husband. The marriage, which lasted 15 years, ended with his death in 1978 while he was undergoing open-heart surgery. Reggie died brokehe'd blasted through his entire fortune and incurred huge debts besides. Though some speculated that DiCicco had murdered Todd, he was never charged with the crime and the death was ruled accidental. Market data provided by Factset. [37] Two years later, Vanderbilt returned to the Arts Center as a panelist at its Annual Fall Show Exhibition, signing copies of her latest novel, Obsession: An Erotic Tale. Mother and daughter sailed to America for an operation. And do ask Judy Collins to sing Amazing Grace.). A former actor, Mr. Cooper was an author, editor and screenwriter (he co-wrote The Chapman Report with Don M. Mankiewicz). "Thirty years ago today, before my eyes, I lost Carter Cooper," she wrote. The judge threw everyone except the parties in the case out, and announced the case would henceforth be held in private. Fearing that she was about to be cut out of little Gloria's life completely, she filed a court petition seeking official guardianship (she was under 21 when her daughter was born and her husband died). [24] Vanderbilt also appeared in a number of live and filmed television dramas including Playhouse 90, Studio One in Hollywood and The Dick Powell Show. ", Judge John F. Carew allowed reporters into the courtroom until the day that Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt's French maid testified to her employer's behavior. The alarmed judge cleared the press from the courtroom for good. Vanderbilt married iconic film director Sidney Lumet in 1955. In 1934, the heiress' mother fought her aunt for custody in a very public trial. Gloria Vanderbilt and her aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt-Whitney, arrive at a courthouse in New York for a trial to determine who would get custody of the girl. Her jeans were more tightly fitted than other jeans of that time and were an immediate success with customers. Ten of the largest mansions on Fifth Avenue belonged to the family at one time or another. Others cranked out feverish stories decrying her lifestyle. I think its a curse. As Cooper puts it, "My mom has been famous for longer than just about anyone else alive today.". They were married on August 28, 1956, and divorced in August 1963. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, with Palma Wayne, A 1918 U.S. passport application, accessed on 6 April 2015, gives her name as "Gloria Maria Mercedes Morgan, She is buried at Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, beside her second husband. The document, filed Monday in Manhattan surrogate court, says the recently deceased socialite fashion icons eldest son Leopold Stan Stokowski will get her Midtown pad in a co-op at 30 Beekman Place, but all the rest of her property goes to the CNN host. Morrow: 1989, 340. Reginald was a heavy drinker and gambler who was 24 years older than the teenage Gloria Morgan. [29] Murjan sold rights to the name Gloria Vanderbilt to the owners of Gitano Group Inc.[30] in 1988. [7] From her father's first marriage to Cathleen Neilson, she had one elder half-sister, Cathleen Vanderbilt. I think she got tired of all the moving, and she decided to burrow into this place and just work on it.. No reason, however, was given as to the change of birth years. GLORIA VANDERBILT, MODEL, FASHION DESIGNER AND MOTHER TO ANDERSON COOPER, DEAD AT 95. They took up residence for years in places like Paris, Monte Carlo, Biarritz, and . All rights reserved. Vanderbilt died at her home in Manhattan on June 17, 2019, aged 95, of stomach cancer. On July 22, 1988, at the age of 23, Carter died by suicide after jumping from the terrace of Vanderbilt's 14th story apartment. Perspective by Michelle Singletary Columnist June 24, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Anderson Cooper. 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And because the Vanderbilt vs. Whitney case provided all of this, it became a major story in the tabloids. DiCicco, a cousin of famous James Bond producer Albert Broccoli, worked as an agent and film producer and was rumored to be connected with the mafia. In 1978, a New York City socialite and writer, Philip Van Rensselaer, wrote a book about Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt titled, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was portrayed by British actress. On another, Al Hirschfelds portrait of Ms. Vanderbilt, crosshatched with Ninas. For her to stay in this apartment for 23 years, which for my mom is an eternity, it had to change. In 1934, the women went to court to fight for custody. "Because that brings him alive and it brings him closer and it means that he hasnt been forgotten.". Gloria Vanderbiltleft almost all of her estate to her youngest son,Anderson Cooper and nothing to her estranged middle son, Chris Stokowski, according to her will. Vanderbilt never remarrieda particular statement of devotion from a woman who had spent the better part of 40 years in one marriage or another. [24], Vanderbilt's fourth marriage was to author Wyatt Emory Cooper, on December 24, 1963. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Follow us on Twitter: @nytrealestate. Anderson Cooper is selling his mothers perpetually reimagined two-bedroom, where she lived for nearly 25 years, for $1.125 million. [25] Other TV programs on which she appeared include Person to Person with Edward R. Murrow, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Live! Gloria Vanderbilt reportedly did not leave her heirs much money. (AP) Gift Article Like. Here's what you need to know about Gloria Vanderbilt's family: 1. Her own art work is everywhere, the naf paintings, shadow boxes and sparkly collages she had been making all her life, even in her last years, when she began selling pieces, to the delight of Mr. Cooper, from the Instagram account he set up for her. Gertrude's younger brother, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, made different kinds of life choices. British photographer Cecil Beaton described them as "alike as two magnolias, and with their marble complexions, raven tresses, and flowing dresses, with their slight lisps and foreign accents, they diffuse a Ouida atmosphere of hothouse elegance and lacy femininity. Ms. Vanderbilt died in 2019. [55][56], Vanderbilt was baptized into the Episcopal Church as an infant, but was raised a Roman Catholic and as a child was particularly fascinated with St. Therese. His 18-month-old daughter Gloria stood to inherit part of a family trust fund when she reached age 21, but until then, she and her mother would live on interest payments. Back in America, lawyers and family members weren't happy about the merry window either. On July 22, 1988, at the age of 23, Carter died by suicide after jumping from the terrace of Vanderbilt's 14th story apartment. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. On the witness stand, Gloria Morgans former nurse painted her employer as a "lazy, loose, erotic woman" who was "indifferent to rats and vermin that swarmed in her house and cruel to her child, wrote a journalist for the New York Daily News. Vanderbilt was born on February 20, 1924, in Manhattan, New York City, the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family[2][3] and his second wife, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt was present at the time and pleaded with her son to. Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Carter Vanderbilt Cooper in their apartment, 1976. Gloria Vanderbilt's parents were Reginald C. Vanderbilt and Gloria Mercedes Morgan. After her death he found more squirreled away. As a result of a great deal of hearsay evidence admitted at trial, the scandalous allegations of Vanderbilt's lifestyleincluding a purported lesbian relationship with Nadezhda de Torby, the Marchioness of Milford Haven,[21][23][24] and a brief engagement to Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg[25][21][26]led to a new standard in tabloid newspaper sensationalism. I imagine them all together, arms around each other, smiling and laughing, happy to know that their love is alive in me and in Wyatt, and that our family continues. She was his third and last wife. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt believed that she was 20, rather than 21, because her mother had long declared the twins' birth year as 1905 rather than 1904. She Had A Glorious Birth In 1924, at the age of 20, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt gave birth to a lovely daughter. [4] Her maternal grandmother, Luisa Kilpatrick, ne Valdivieso Araoz, was a member of a wealthy Chilean family that had emigrated from Spain in the 17th century. The little girl's aunt invited her to recuperate from the tonsillectomy at her home on Long Island. The gray Rolls Royce eased to a stop at the curb of 60 Centre Street in downtown Manhattan. Vanderbilt's paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, thought that Gloria's mother was an unfit parent and took her to court in 1934 to try to get custody of the 10-year-old girl. Laura Consuelo Morgan (17 December 1901 26 August 1979), aka Tamar. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (She then gave her son more practical instructions: cremation please, and in her yellow Fortuny dress. Legal Statement. Vanderbilt's mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, who known for her delicate beauty, took her daughter to go live in Europe after her husband passed. Gloria Vanderbilt the glamorous Manhattan socialite from one of the nation's wealthiest families who was as well-known for her eponymous brand of jeans as her . Stan largely eschews the spotlight that tends to follow his famous family, though he is said to have remained close with his mother and occasionally appeared with her at public events. Gloria Vanderbilt was called the "poor little rich girl" after a battle for her custody made tabloid headlines in the 1930s, CNN said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. [31], Jones Apparel Group acquired the rights to Gloria Vanderbilt jeans in 2002.
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