Vanderbilt Heiress Spills Family Secrets in Memoir

0:00It's April 21st. Welcome to Entertainment and celebrity news today, powered by AI, I'm Cory with the story. Bell Burton just dropped her memoir, Strangers, spilling the tea on her high society family secrets and her own messy divorce. She's a 56 year old mom from New York royalty, descendant of shipping Tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt through her dad, and granddaughter of style, Queen Babe Paley. She used fake names for her three kids to shield them, but her elite roots made anonymity tough. Her grandma, Bay Paley, was a vogue editor and best dressed icon, married first to an oil air, then to CBS boss William Paley, amid a fairs and drama. Bell's mom, Amanda Burton, navigated divorces, became a city planning powerhouse under Mayor Bloomberg, and hit Vanity Fair's best dress haul of. Fame. She starred her Burton trace back to Vanderbilt riches, but split from Amanda over tough times. Bell grew up craving a forever marriage after watching her parents splits, so she wed lawyer

1:01Henry Davis in 1999 after Harvard and NYU Law. They had three kids, but after 20 years he blindsided her with an affair and left in 2020, sparking custody fights she details in the book. Henry pushed back in interviews, calling her takes queued, but staying quiet to protect the kids, while Bell's stepmom Susan rallied hard, even, emailing him to end it kindly. The book blew up as an instant bestseller, and now Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Bell in a Netflix series adaptation. This tale flips the script to her family's old stiff upper lip vibe, letting Bell own her rebellion and air it all out on her terms.