Madeleine Talmage Dick (née Force; previously Astor, later Fiermonte; June 19, 1893 – March 27, 1940) was an American socialite and a survivor of the RMS Titanic.

Madeleine's elder sister Katherine Emmons Force was a real estate businesswoman and socialite.

[4] She is also distantly related to Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, who served directly under George Washington in the American War of Independence.

[8] There was a considerable amount of opposition to the marriage, not only because of their age difference (29 years apart, with Madeleine being 18 and John being 47)[9] but also because of his recent divorce (November 1909) from his previous wife.

After several Episcopal priests refused to celebrate the nuptials,[10] the couple was eventually married by a Congregationalist minister in Beechwood, his Newport mansion.

They visited several places locally first, then in January 1912, they sailed from New York on the Olympic, and enjoyed a long Egyptian tour.

While they were waiting on the boat-deck, Mrs. Astor lent Leah Aks, a third-class passenger, her fur shawl to keep her son, Filly, warm.

[citation needed] At one point, the Astors retired to the gymnasium and sat on the mechanical horses in their life jackets.

[14] An account of Madeleine Astor's boarding of the lifeboat was given by Archibald Gracie IV to the US Senate Titanic inquiry.

I heard Mr Astor ask the second officer whether he would not be allowed to go aboard this boat to protect his wife.

The account given by her spokesman is: On landing from the Carpathia, the young bride widowed by the Titanic's sinking told members of her family what she could recall of the circumstances of the disaster.

Her first social function was not until the end of May, when she held a luncheon at her mansion on Fifth Avenue for Arthur Rostron, the captain of the Carpathia, and Dr. Frank McGee, the ship's surgeon.

[18] In his will, John Jacob Astor IV left his wife an outright sum of $100,000, the income from a trust fund of $5 million, and the use of the house on Fifth Avenue.

A fund of $3 million was set aside for his unborn child John Jacob "Jakey" Astor VI, which he would control when he became of age.

Four months later, on November 27, 1933, Astor married Italian actor/boxer Enzo Fiermonte in a civil ceremony in New York City.

[citation needed] Madeleine died of a heart ailment at her mansion in Palm Beach on March 27, 1940, at the age of 46.