US-born ‘princess’ evicted from Rome villa after inheritance dispute – video

A 'princess' who was evicted from a villa in Rome that contains the only ceiling fresco ever painted by Caravaggio said she was sorry to experience such 'a brutal end to what has been a labour of love'. Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, nee Rita Carpenter, abandoned the Villa Aurora off the swank Via Veneto hours after carabinieri police arrived to enforce a court-mandated eviction order. After her husband, Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, died in 2018, the villa became the subject of an inheritance dispute, with his children arguing that the house belongs to them

• US-born ‘princess’ evicted from Rome villa housing Caravaggio fresco