Many Spanish given names honor the Virgin Mary. Girls are frequently given the name Maria or Maria followed by a suffix name and boys are sometimes given the name Maria as a middle name. Girls with Marian composite names may use the suffix portion of their name as their main informal name.
Cooper's father and Vanderbilt's husband Wyatt Emory Cooper, who Vanderbilt still believes is the love of her life, died at a young age and Vanderbilt never married again. Anderson was only ten years old when his father died suddenly of heart failure.
Cooperâs father, Wyatt Cooper, was Gloriaâs fourth husband. He died at age 50, when Anderson was 10. A decade later, in July 1988, Andersonâs older brother Carter, then 23, jumped to his death off a 14th-floor terrace in the familyâs Manhattan apartment.