Isabella Clara Caruso (1957 - 2018) was an Italian noblewoman and socialite, as well as the former matriarch of the House of Caruso in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Though she was seen as a free-spirited and strong lady in the public eye, she devolved into a callous, reclusive woman after the departure of her sons. She psychologically tortured her youngest son, Silvio Caruso, until he eventually decided to smother her with a pillow as she slept.
Biography
Early life
Born into the prestigious and wealthy House of Caruso in 1957 in Sapienza, Italy, Isabella was an only child and heiress to the Caruso fortune. She became a career student, eventually meeting her future husband, Giacomo DeMaggio, at the University of Milan in 1977. Isabella bore him three sons, two of them being twins. She was extremely active in public life, being a relatively well-known celebrity across the world.
Silvio
DeMaggio left Caruso shortly after Silvio's birth, dying unexpectedly in 1992. This left only her to care for their three children. She became extremely infatuated with her heirloom gramophone, playing classical records on it while making dinner. She also made spaghetti bolognese for her sons, using a cheap brand of canned spaghetti sauce. Later in life, she would write this recipe down, but withdrew the fact that the sauce was canned, instead making it an ambiguous "special ingredient." In 1998, she was invited to Sydney, Australia on board Kalvin Ritter's ship; the Night Thief, where she discussed her third son, Silvio, to her friend Mason Niel Houston. Isabella expressed her severe disappointment in him, believing he would become a murderer rather than the scientific savant he seemed to be.
Her twin sons fled home when they turned 18, never seeing her again. Their departure changed her, making her extremely overprotective of her youngest son, Silvio, who was a child prodigy in science. Her protectiveness was such that she refused to let Silvio see any girls. Silvio entered into a relationship with a girl, Amelia D'Amelio. Isabella paid the gardener's son to seduce her, taking pictures of them having sexual intercourse and showing her son the photos, all to prove that "romantic love is fleeting, only a mother's love endures"; this event caused extreme gynophobia in Silvio.
Isabella was guilty of cowing her son, to keep him docile and within her reach. When Silvio almost won the Nobel Prize for his work in chemistry, especially at his age, she became angry with him and stated that "second place is the first loser."
Death
As she approached the 2010s, Caruso rapidly declined in health, eventually requiring a wheelchair and a chair lift. She continued to belittle her son, disregarding all the achievements he's made over his adulthood. Finally, in 2018, in a fit of rage, Silvio smothered Isabella in her sleep as revenge for smothering him and stunting his growth as a human being. Her death was explained as natural causes, Silvio not allowing medical examiners to determine the true cause of death.