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Texas-born Italian princess will be kicked out of Rome villa when it goes up for auction next week - Daily Mail
Jan 14, 2022 2 mins, 22 secs

The Casino dell'Aurora, also known as Villa Ludovisi, has been in the Ludovisi family since the early 1600s.

After Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi died in 2018, the villa became the subject of an inheritance dispute and his third wife, Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi and his children from a previous marriage. .

In 2021, a judge ordered the villa be put up for auction in January, with its value estimated at 471 million euros ($538 million) and a starting bid set at 353 million euros ($400 million). .

The listing on the Rome tribunal's auction site highlights its many attributes, though it notes that 11 million euros ($12.5 million) in renovations will be necessary to make it comply with current standards. .

Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi (far left) and Princess Rita (left and right) are pictured at the Villa Ludovisi.

Tucked away in a small room on the second floor, Jupiter, Neptune And Pluto (pictured) is the only ceiling painting by Caravaggio, which is expected to fetch a high price for the villa at auction in January.

Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi (center) decided to appear in Playboy magazine, posing in a feather boa in a photoshoot to accompany an article that she'd written, headlined The Liberation of a Congressional Wife.

For Villa Aurora happens to boast the only surviving ceiling fresco by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. .

The prince's three sons, Francesco, Ignazio, and Bante have spent years battling their stepmother, Princess Rita, over the fate of the property. .

Things concluded with a ruling that Villa Aurora should be sold at auction.

Born plain Rita Carpenter, in Texas, she was educated at Harvard and spent much of the 1970s in Washington DC as the wife of John Jenrette, a Democratic congressman from South Carolina.

Rita, pictured left at the Playboy Mansion on April 13, 1981 and right with Hugh Hefner, decided to appear in Playboy magazine, posing topless with a feather boa in a photoshoot to accompany an article that she'd written, headlined The Liberation of a Congressional Wife.

She subsequently decided to appear in Playboy magazine, posing topless with a feather boa in a photoshoot to accompany an article that she'd written, headlined The Liberation of a Congressional Wife.

Rita is pictured on the cover of Playboy in 1984, three years after she first appeared in the magazine back in 1981

The Casino Boncompagni Ludovisi also known as Casino dell'Aurora, will be up for auction next week

'They called me and said, 'We have this prince who would like to develop a hotel on his property,' she later told New Yorker magazine

'I hope whoever buys this house loves it as much as I have,' Princess Rita said last year

The best chance Princess Rita has of preventing Villa Aurora from falling into the hands of a free-spending oligarch, Arab sheikh or flashy vulgarian is for the Italian government — which will conduct the sale on January 18 — to decide to buy it

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