A former Playboy model turned Italian princess faces imminent eviction from her $533m villa in Rome after she battled with her stepchildren and failed to maintain the property.
The 73-year-old Texas native, born Rita Carpenter, became Italian royalty after marrying Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, an Italian prince in 2009 holding the title of Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi.
But, after her husband’s death in 2018, Boncompagni Ludovisi’s children from his first marriage accused their stepmother – their dad’s third and final wife – of taking their inheritance and letting the Villa Aurora, located off the swanky Via Veneto, go to shambles.
A court has since agreed that the Princess let an exterior wall crumble, with she, her Ukrainian housekeeper and her Ukrainian housekeeper’s daughter and two grandchildren set to be evicted by police as early as Thursday.
The spectacular estate that has been in the Luovisi family since the early 1600s features the only known ceiling fresco painted by famed Italian artist Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
Attempts to sell the property for $533 million proved unsuccessful.
The price has since been lowered to $353 million, but there are no buyers, meaning it will be discounted even more in a bid to shift it.
On Wednesday night, the American princess waited in her home with her Ukrainian housekeeper Olga, her housekeeper’s daughter and grandchildren, who fled Kyiv last year after the Russian invasion, for the Carabinieri police to arrive.
In January, Rome Judge Miriam Iappelli instructed Carabinieri police at the Via Veneto station to evict her, accusing the princess of having failed, among other things, to maintain the home in a ‘good state of conservation’ after an exterior wall crumbled.
With the warning time now up, the decree calls for police to evict anyone still living there, take possession of the property, change the locks and ‘dispose of or destroy’ any furniture or documents left behind.
The children have argued that the home, built in 1570, belongs to them, that their grandfather intended for them to inherit it and that their late father abused them and mismanaged his fortune.
One of the children, Bante Boncompagni Ludovisi, took to Twitter on Wednesday to praise Iappelli’s eviction order and assert the children’s right to the villa and its contents.
The widow Boncompagni Ludovisi says she and her husband worked diligently to restore the villa as best they could, adding that she has tried to negotiate with her late husband’s children.
In a statement provided to The Associated Press on Wednesday, she called her imminent eviction ‘unexpected and unjust.’
What a brutal ending to my beautiful life with my beloved Nicolo,’ she wrote.
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