His passing came ten years after the death of Carter and Anderson’s father, author Wyatt Cooper — a man Anderson and Vanderbilt described in their memoir, The Rainbow Comes and Goes ...

Vanderbilt and her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, opened up about the painful experience in a 2016 interview with PEOPLE. At the time — 28 years after Carter's tragic death — both said they ...

and his brother Carter Cooper that same year — the latter of whom died by suicide at the age of 23. Anderson got emotional ...