Ann Russell Miller, O.Carm (October 30, 1928 – June 5, 2021) was an American socialite who left her wealth behind to become a Carmelite nun known as Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity.
[2][3][7][8] According to a 2005 feature in the San Francisco Chronicle she was friends with Loretta Young, Nancy Reagan, and Phyllis Diller.
[2] She held frequent parties at her nine-bedroom San Francisco mansion, and spent her days smoking, drinking champagne, playing cards and travelling around the world on scuba diving trips.
[9] On her 61st birthday in 1989, Miller announced she would be entering a convent,[2] left her mansion overlooking San Francisco Bay before it was sold to a member of the band Metallica.
She wore a flower crown, and carried a helium balloon with the words "Here I am", so that people could find her in the crowd of 800 attendees.
She gave away all of her possessions, and boarded a plane the following day to join the Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel based in Des Plaines, Illinois.