She was born on March 3, 1906,[1] the youngest daughter of George Jay Gould I.

[4] Her father was the eldest son of the former Helen Day Miller and Jay Gould, a leading American railroad developer and speculator who has been referred to as one of the ruthless robber barons of the Gilded Age, whose success at business made him one of the richest men of his era.

[5] Her aunt, Anna Gould, was married to two European aristocrats, Boni de Castellane (the elder son and heir apparent of the Marquis of Castellane) and Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duke of Sagan (Boni's cousin).

[7] He was the son of Henry A. Bishop, Sr, who was the director of the Western Union Telegraph Co.

[16] Gloria drowned in the swimming pool of her home near Phoenix, Arizona in August 1943.