A Texas-born Italian princess is evicted from her villa in Rome, which encompasses a Baroque mural price over $325 million.
Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, 73, who was married to an Italian prince, received a call to go away her home this week – the ultimate volley in a bitter inheritance battle with her late husband’s three sons.
The Casino dell’Aurora villa in central Rome accommodates a mural of the gods Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto, painted within the sixteenth century by Italian Renaissance master Caravaggio.
Princess Rita told The Guardian this week that she would “defend vigorously” her right to reside within the vast estate left to her by her husband, Prince Nicolo von Boncompagni Ludovisi, who died in 2018. The prince gave her the best to live within the villa for the remainder of her life. Within the event of a sale, the proceeds were to be split between her and his three sons. The sons challenged the desire and have been battling with Princess Rita ever since.
Each parties recently put the home up on the market, but after it did not sell for a fifth time earlier this week, the princess was served an eviction notice on Thursday.
Based on reports within the Italian press, a judge ruled that the property was not properly maintained after a wall collapsed and blocked a close-by street.
“I loved my husband very much, and he loved me,” she told the newspaper in an interview. “I actually have lived here for 20 years and have devoted all my time and resources to this villa. It really didn’t should be like this.”
Before marrying the prince she met in 2003, Rita dabbled in acting, television and real estate in Recent York. She helped broker Donald Trump’s purchase of the General Motors constructing in 1998.
She was also embroiled in a scandal within the Nineteen Eighties, when she revealed in Playboy magazine that she and her ex-husband, Democratic Congressman John Jenrette, had sex on the Capitol steps during a break from an all-night House session. She later withdrew her claim Interview with CBS from 2017.
“We didn’t make love on the steps of the Capitol. We just got married and so they were in session and he called me to have dinner with him within the Congress dining room. After which we just went behind the columns and he kissed me,” she said.
“And it was a passionate moment. But that wasn’t the case – we didn’t make love on the steps of the Capitol. We don’t!”