This is filed pursuant to Rule 497(e).

AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.
File Nos. 33-18647 and 811-5398.




ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN INVESTMENT
RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT [LOGO] (SM)


                                      ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN VARIABLE PRODUCTS
                                      SERIES FUND, INC.

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         Supplement dated October 10, 2003 to the Prospectuses
dated May 1, 2003 that offer the Class A and Class B shares of
AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc. (the
"Fund"). This Supplement provides additional information under
the heading "Management of the Portfolios" and supersedes certain
information relating to the AllianceBernstein Technology
Portfolio and the AllianceBernstein Americas Government Income
Portfolio under the heading "Management of the
Portfolios-Portfolio Managers" in the Prospectuses.

Management of the Portfolios

         Alliance Capital Management L.P. ("Alliance Capital"),
the Fund's Adviser, has been contacted by the Office of the New
York State Attorney General ("NYAG") and the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection with
their investigation of practices in the mutual fund industry
identified as "market timing" and "late trading" of mutual fund
shares. Alliance Capital has been providing full cooperation with
respect to these investigations.

         Based on the preliminary results of its own ongoing
internal investigation concerning mutual fund transactions,
Alliance Capital has identified conflicts of interest in
connection with certain market timing transactions. In this
regard, Alliance Capital has suspended two of its employees, one
of whom had been an officer of the Fund and the portfolio manager
of the Fund's AllianceBernstein Technology Portfolio, and the
other of whom had been an executive involved in selling Alliance
Capital's hedge fund products. Alliance Capital continues to
review the facts and circumstances relevant to the SEC's and
NYAG's investigations, including whether third parties may have
engaged in illegal late trading in the Fund and whether any of
its employees knowingly facilitated such late trading. Consistent
with the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders,
Alliance Capital intends to vigorously pursue its rights, and the
rights of the Fund and its shareholders, if it is determined that
such trading occurred. At the present time, management of
Alliance Capital is unable to estimate the impact, if any, that
the outcome of these investigations may have on the Fund or
Alliance Capital's results of operations or financial condition.

         Alliance Capital also announced that its Board of
Directors authorized a special committee, comprised of the
members of Alliance Capital's Audit Committee and the other
independent member of the Board, to direct and oversee a
comprehensive review of the facts and circumstances relevant to
the SEC's and the NYAG's investigations.

         On October 2, 2003, a class action complaint entitled
Hindo et al. v. AllianceBernstein Growth & Income Fund et al.
(the "Hindo Complaint"), was filed in federal district court in
the Southern District of New York against Alliance Capital
Management Holding L.P.; Alliance Capital; Alliance Capital
Management Corporation (collectively, the "Alliance Capital
defendants"); a number of AllianceBernstein Funds, not including
the Fund; AXA Financial, Inc.; Gerald Malone; Charles Schaffran;
Edward J. Stern; Canary Capital Partners, LLC; Canary Investment
Management LLC; Canary Capital Partners, Ltd.; and other unnamed
defendants. The action, which is brought on behalf of a putative
class of all persons who purchased shares in one or more of the
defendant mutual funds between October 2, 1998 and September 29,
2003, alleges violations of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Advisors Act
of 1940. The principal allegations of the Hindo Complaint are
that the Alliance Capital defendants entered into agreements
under which certain named and unnamed parties were permitted to
engage in late trading and market timing transactions in the
defendant funds. According to the Complaint, these agreements
were fraudulent and a breach of fiduciary duty to fund
shareholders. In addition, plaintiffs allege that the
prospectuses for the named AllianceBernstein Funds were false and
misleading because they: (i) failed to disclose the existence of
these late trading and market timing agreements; and (ii)
represented that fund shareholders would be safeguarded against
the effects of such agreements. Plaintiffs seek unspecified
damages, the rescission of plaintiffs' contracts with Alliance
Capital, and recovery of any fees paid in connection therewith.
Alliance Capital is evaluating the claims in the Hindo Complaint
and intends to vigorously defend against them. At the present
time, management of Alliance Capital is unable to estimate the
impact, if any, that the outcome of this action may have on
Alliance Capital's results of operations or financial condition.
On October 8, 2003, a similar complaint was filed in federal
district court in the Eastern District of New York in which a
number of AllianceBernstein Funds, not including the Fund, are
named as nominal defendants. Alliance Capital understands that
additional lawsuits that are similar to these lawsuits have been
filed, and believes that others may be filed, against Alliance
Capital defendants and related parties.

Management of the Portfolios-Portfolio Managers

AllianceBernstein Technology Portfolio

         Effective September 30, 2003, Janet Walsh is the person
who is primarily responsible for the day-to-day management of the
AllianceBernstein Technology Portfolio. Ms. Walsh is a Senior
Vice President of Alliance Capital Management Corporation
("ACMC"), with which she has been associated since prior to 1998.

AllianceBernstein Americas Government Income Portfolio

         Paul J. DeNoon, Douglas J. Peebles and Michael L. Mon
are the persons who are primarily responsible for the day-to-day
management of the Portfolio. Mr. Peebles and Mr. Mon replace Ivan
Rudolph-Shabinsky and Sean Kelleher. Mr. Peebles is a Senior Vice
President of ACMC, with which he has been associated since prior
to 1998. Mr. Mon is a Vice President of ACMC, with which he has
been associated since June 1999. Prior thereto, he was a
Portfolio Manager at Brundage, Story and Rose since 1998.

You should retain this Supplement with your prospectus for future
reference.

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