The rift between Christopher Stokowski and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, reportedly developed due to Vanderbilt’s connection with a psychiatrist, Dr. Christ L. Zois. Vanderbilt was grieving after Wyatt Cooper’s unexpected death, and her connection with Zois went beyond a patient-doctor relationship. Vanderbilt gave him expensive gifts and bankrolled his vacations. Unfortunately, she discovered much later that Zois wreaked havoc with her finances, stealing money and resulting in tax evasion issues on her properties. The therapist was also a toxic influence on Christopher’s relationship with his then-fiancée, April Sandmeyer. “Christopher was the love of my life,” Sandmeyer explained to the Daily Mail in 2014. “But I was so devastated when I discovered what Zois had done that I felt I had no choice but to break things off with Christopher.” Two years later, Sandmeyer indicated that there was one pivotal incident involving Zois that precipitated the split, but she declined to elaborate on the details.
After Christopher and Sandmeyer broke up, he distanced himself from his family. He endeavored to repair his romantic connection, but Sandmeyer rebuffed his efforts to contact her via phone or by letter. Eventually, Christopher left the country and moved to Nether Wallop, a farm in England that belonged to his father, Leopold Stokowski. When he eventually returned to the United States, Christopher lived a quiet life in Vermont and various New England states.
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