‘Will’ power

LIKE mother, like son! Anderson Cooper has revealed that he’s not planning to pass his wealth onto his son, Wyatt Morgan Cooper, who was born last year. “I don’t believe in passing on huge amounts of money,” the CNN anchor told Ashley Baker and Michael Hainey on their podcast “Morning Meeting.” “I don’t know what I’ll have,” Cooper added of any future inheritance. “I’m not that interested in money, but I don’t intend to have some sort of pot of gold for my son. I’ll go with what my parents said . . . ‘College will be paid for and then you gotta get on it.’ ” Cooper — whose mother was fashion mogul and wealthy Vanderbilt descendant Gloria Vanderbilt — in 2014 told Howard Stern of his own inheritance: “My mom’s made clear to me that there’s no trust fund, there’s none of that.” He also told Stern, “I don’t believe in inheriting money . . . I think it’s a curse.” (After Vanderbilt died in 2019, Cooper wound up inheriting only about $1.5 million from her estimated $200 million estate, Page Six reported.) Meanwhile, Cooper admitted on the Air Mail-produced podcast that his life as a kid was decidedly different. “As a kid my dad did take me to Grand Central Station to show me the statue of Commodore Vanderbilt,” he said, “and that was the first time I had heard the Vanderbilt name.” He added, “I just remember coming away [from] it believing for quite some time that all grandparents turned into statues when they die.” Cooper’s new book is “Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty.”