Gloria Vanderbilt's love life - so many men, so much time...

Her new memoir, "It Seemed Important At The Time: A Romance Memoir," is quite interesting and absorbing, and well-written to boot, a rarity among such books.

She was the classic "poor little rich girl," the subject of a world-wide media frenzy when a custody battle between her mother and her father's sister, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, broke out in 1934.

She was 10 years old at the time, and the combination of notoriety from that early age along with the enormous fortune she stood to inherit at 21 made her forever a subject of fascination to both the media and their audience.

The book's got tons of great pictures, of both her and her many boyfriends, lovers, husbands, and relatives.

Vanderbilt herself in her late teens and twenties was extraordinarily beautiful, a dead ringer for Natalia Vodianova, today's über-model/"it" girl.

Among her men: Howard Hughes, Leopold Stokowski, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Sidney Lumet, Wyatt Cooper, Roald Dahl, and Gordon Parks.

Whether she or they were married or single didn't matter to her.

The book's epilogue begins, "Dear Others - you who are not mentioned in this romance memoir - do I hear a sigh of relief?"

I'll bet there were many such sighs by men whose lives and marriages would've been blown out of the water had she mentioned them.

Now 80 years old, she writes that she still can't get enough.

You GO Gloria!

FunFact: the book is dedicated to Joyce Carol Oates.