A Texas-born princess is facing a court-ordered eviction from a Rome villa containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio.
FILE - Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi shows to journalists some of the paintings displayed inside the Casino dell'Aurora, also known as Villa Ludovisi, in Rome, on Jan. 18, 2022. A Texas-born princess who lives in a Rome villa containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is facing a court-ordered eviction Thursday in the latest chapter in an inheritance dispute with the heirs of one of Romes aristocratic families.
The house, located off the swank Via Veneto, has been in the Ludovisi family since the early 1600s. After Prince Nicolo Boncompagni Ludovisi died in 2018, the villa became the subject of an inheritance dispute between the children from his first marriage and his third wife, the San Antonio, Texas-born Princess Rita, whom he married in 2009.
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.”The eviction order marked the culmination of a bitter inheritance saga that simultaneously saw the villalast year and assigned a court-appraised value of 471 million euros .
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