In its third season, Gossip Girl continues to explore the making of a mogul as Chuck Bass, heir to his late father Bart’s fortune, attempts to live up to the family name. The elder Bass, who died in a car wreck last season, was a hard-dealing, self-made entrepreneur who earned his billions as the head of Bass Industries. But on the living, breathing Upper East Side, the Bass surname has an actual association: power couple Sid and Mercedes Bass. How much of the show’s Bass story line finds its inspiration in the real-life Bass family?

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In its third season, Gossip Girl continues to explore the making of a mogul as Chuck Bass, heir to his late father Bart’s fortune, attempts to live up to the family name. The elder Bass, who died in a car wreck last season, was a hard-dealing, self-made entrepreneur who earned his billions as the head of Bass Industries. But on the living, breathing Upper East Side, the Bass surname has an actual association: power couple Sid and Mercedes Bass. How much of the show’s Bass story line finds its inspiration in the real-life Bass family?

by Jessica Flint
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