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Muriel Cigar Namesake There are many stories regarding the Muriel Cigars label's likeness and who is the Real Muriel. The Muriel Cigar was created in 1912 when Lorillard bought the original label from Dr. Carl Moehle, the owner of a lithographic company. Dr. Moehle immortalized his granddaughter, Muriel Rasmussen Berry (1912-1987), by commissioning an artist to paint her portrait as she might appear as a grown woman. The portrait blended the infant Muriel's likeness with grown-up female relatives and a flair of the Italian masters for which the painter had a fondness. Since 1912, the Muriel image has been modernized numerous times "who closely resemble the Artist's conception" While much credit has been given to Eddie Adams as a result of her spokesperson appearances in the Muriel television commercials, the "Real Muriel Girl" was actually the stay at home housewife of an aeronautical engineer raising three children while following her husbands career from New Jersey west to Kansas City and then back as far as Maryland where her husband passed away in 1976. She then moved to Sarasota, Florida until her passing.

Reference: The New Miss Muriel.