The Boncompagni Ludovisi are perhaps best known for having produced Pope Gregory XIII of Gregorian calendar fame. Her dramatic exit - one of the dogs briefly escaped as she spoke to journalists on the street - capped a remarkable, years-long soap opera that exposed the dirty laundry of one of Rome’s aristocratic families. Before she had even left, a locksmith changed the locks on the big green front door.
Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, nee Rita Carpenter, abandoned the Casino dell’Aurora off the swank Via Veneto hours after Carabinieri police arrived to enforce a court-mandated eviction order.
ROME (AP) - A Texas-born princess piled her four yapping bichon frise dogs into a taxi Thursday after being evicted, following a bitter inheritance dispute, from a historic villa in Rome that contains the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio.
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