Miriam Caracciolo di Melito

Biography Miriam Terry Crosby was born in New Orleans in 1888 to explorer and politician Oscar Terry Crosby (1861–1947) and his wife Jeanne Maria Bouligny Crosby (granddaughter of Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny, US Senator from Louisiana). Her father was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Woodrow Wilson administration and as the president of the International Council of Finance during World War I. She was the older sister of Juliette Crosby and of Celeste Crosby. A prominent debutante, Crosby was well known in Washington D.C.'s high society. Mario Caracciolo di Melito, a former Italian cavalry officer who immigrated to the United States to pursue a Hollywood career. The wedding, a private ceremony in Naples, was attended by the Duke of Cerranova, the Duke of Mondragone, the Baron Compagna, and Prince Ludovico Spada Veralli Potenziani. The Caracciolos had a son, Ludovico Caracciolo di Melito.

Countess Caracciolo di Melito remained a renowned society hostess in her adult life, hosting functions at View Tree, her parents' estate in Virginia, and attending society events in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

She died in Rome on 23 August 1966.