Dorothy Caruso Dorothy Caruso Dorothy Caruso (6 August 1893 – 16 December 1955) was an American socialite and the wife of the Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso. Dorothy Benjamin was born on 6 August 1893 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the daughter of Park Benjamin, a lawyer, and Ida Crane. On 20 August 1918 she married Enrico Caruso, with whom she had a daughter, Gloria; he died in 1921. She married Captain Ernest Augustus Ingram (1892–1954) in London on 14 November 1925. They had a daughter, Jacqueline, and divorced in 1927. She then married Charles Adam Holder (1872–1955) in Paris in 1933. Caruso
Enrico Caruso was preserved in a glass sarcophagus at Del Pianto Cemetery in Naples for mourners to view. In 1929, Dorothy Caruso had his remains sealed permanently in an ornate stone tomb. Caruso's 25-year career, stretching from 1895 to 1920, included 863 appearances at the New York Metropolitan Opera before he died at the age of 48. Thanks in part to his tremendously popular phonograph records, Caruso was one of the most famous personalities of his day and his fame has endured to the present. He was one of the first examples of a global media celebrity. Beyond records, Caruso's name became