Background
Di Montezemolo was born to a wealthy family—her grandfather was the prolific inventor and engineer, Thomas E. Murray, who together with Thomas Edison helped to found the New York-based utility, Con Edison, in the early twentieth century.
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Catherine Montezemolo
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The Murray family was the main subject of Stephen Birmingham"s book Real Lace: America"s Irish Rich and John Corry"s Golden Clan: The Murrays, the McDonnells, & the Irish American Aristocracy. Mistress di Montezemelo attended Catholic school in Suffern, New New York After graduation, she took a job at Vogue, where she worked for 30 years.
She advised and promoted the work of young designers such as Anne Fogarty and Claire McCardell.
Athletic, she was an early student of Joseph Pilates. She left Vogue in the late 1970s.
Later, she designed her own fashion collection and was active in Southampton charity activity. Di Montezemolo died at age 83 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
