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 unusual award bestowed on him was that of "Honorary Captain of the New York Police Force". In 1960, for his contribution to the recording industry, Caruso received a star located at 6625 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Caruso was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. On 27 February of that same year, the United States Postal Service issued a 22-cent postage stamp in his honor. He was voted into Gramophone Magazine's Hall of Fame in 2012. Caruso's operatic repertoire consisted primarily of Italian works along with a few roles in French. He also performed