Texas-born Princess Rita to be evicted from Rome mansion

Ha! We got evicted from our house in Windsor... Deal with it 😠

The villa has seen better days. it's true. But eviction seems so barbaric. Why can't the kids be kinder to step-mom? It's all because she did Playboy.

Sad last days.

They sound almost as bad as the city of East Hampton! Mother says it's fascism, and I can't argue with her.

^ It's quite the scandal.

I have to head down into that area today. I should see if there are some good pieces to be had on the side of the rode. I'll let you know.

Fun fact, Casino means "a mess" in Italian. So she was probably just living up the the mansions namesake.

Rita needs a hair cut and to lay off the fillers. She’s looking like that whore from the Valley.

Why is she royalty? Does Italy still have an intact royal family? How weird.

The majority of the value of the house is the ceiling mural, which wasn't exactly in pristine condition when I saw it.

R9 no intact royal family that has any import. But there are decedents of former royal families still around and I am sure they inherited whatever property that has been passed down for centuries. It sounds like she might have married into it, r9. So she is kind of like a Sonya Morgan who insists she's a Morgan or a Luanne who forever insisted she was a Countess because they married into it - even long after the divorces.

Rita Jenrette! You all are too young to remember her. She's a kook. She was married to a Congressman who had to resign.

From Wikipedia: "Her husband John was convicted for taking a bribe during the Abscam investigation in October 1980.[11] She appeared on the Phil Donahue Show and he called in live to join the conversation. At his trial, she testified in her husband's defense.

Subsequently, she alerted authorities to $25,000 she found in her husband's closet, saying it was part of the Abscam money.[12]

She gave an interview to Playboy that appeared in the April 1981 issue, accompanied by a nude pictorial.[13] The article's revelation that she and her husband had sex on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during a break in an all-night House session caused a hoopla. She claimed that the couple were still "happily married" at the time the Playboy pictorial was photographed,[14] although they had separated by the time it was published. The comedy group Capitol Steps takes its name from this escapade.

Jenrette again appeared in Playboy in the May 1984 issue on the cover and in a pictorial.[15] She separated from her husband in January 1981 and they were divorced shortly thereafter. "

R12 I remember this was a big news story when I was a kid.

Wasn't there a gay aide who outed himself when he was accused by the husband of fucking nympho Rita?

Rita needs to come home and get on the Trump Train..... he could use her.

The Ciliegia Orchard

Poor Rita, out on the street.

[quote]Why can't the kids be kinder to step-mom?

I would assume it's because they want the hundreds of millions of dollars. Just a guess, though.

Want she married to a politician ages ago and dished about group sex and swinging in those circles or something? I remember some scandal in childhood.

Yes. that was her.

"Judge Miriam Iappelli accused the princess in the January eviction notice of violating a previous order forbidding her from conducting guided tours of the property. The judge also found that the princess had failed to properly maintain the property after an exterior wall crumbled."

The job isn't done until this happens to the house of Windsor and British Aristocracy. They have no business being near government.

Wow, what a mess. Seems shady how the sons managed to win their case against her, but she's planning on fighting the eviction. With what money, I don't know, since she says she's been left penniless.

[Quote]Now, she has six lawyers, she told The Post, and they are scheduled to be back in court at the end of the month to fight the eviction at a hearing where the princes hope to take full control of the building. The US embassy in Rome has offered their aid, she said.

The sons sound like pieces of work.

Some European countries have rules of succession, with a fixed % of the estate divided among parents, surviving spouse, and children. In this case the guide is 25% to the surviving spouse and 50% divided among multiple children.

Family homes held across generations are a much more established tradition. The average Italian man lives in his family/parents' home until age 32. In some places children, especially unmarried children, have a right to live in their parents home and houses may be divided informally into semi-independent apartments within a house.

It's usually possible to exclude heirs under the normal rules of succession, but it requires some effort and sometimes advance warning to the excluded heirs.

Of course these systems are useful if someone dies intestate, establishing an automatic division.

In complicated estates, a more agreeable arrangement might be forged to provide a life interest within in a large house for a spouse - complicated with multiple spouses and step-parents. Her husband evidently assumed the sons would reach some agreement with the step-mother, but parents are often wrong about these things. If there were family money that approached the value of the house, things might have taken a happier turn for the widow.

Perils of the house poor.

r17 Bitch was LIVING for all those cameras, who knows the last time she got so much attention from the press, must have been decades at this point.

Why was the son from the previous marriage there to supervise the eviction? It's not like he's getting the villa, it's being auctioned off. Or is he getting some of the proceeds from the eventual sale?

I wonder who's going to buy that piece of crap. There's so much renovation to be done, you can build a whole new fancy mansion for that money.

[quote]There's so much renovation to be done, you can build a whole new fancy mansion for that money.

Not everyone wants "a while new fancy mansion."

With the sons now the owners, I expect they will launch a plan to retain the house. The auction came about because the sons challenged her life-estate in the house and her inability to maintain it to reasonable standards. If the sons (who should have inherited other assets from their father) can argue that they should stay in the family house and maintain it, it seems the auction process could be stopped.

Babe, at least get the words right if you're gonna cunt-quote me like that.

I've been in the villa, and yes I did meet Rita, who was delightful. It was the standard story; huge old home that had seen better days (but wasn't exactly crumbling into dust) and there were clearly extremely hefty costs associated with its upkeep that weren't being fully met. Whoever buys the house will need bottomless pockets to maintain it and will have to be heavily motivated by love of its history and artistic treasures. Old money will be too smart to buy it, new money will be too vulgar to want it. It'll end up with the state.

[quote]It was commissioned in 1597 by a diplomat and patron of the arts who asked the then-young painter to decorate the ceiling of the small room being used as an alchemy workshop.

Alchemy workshop sounds intriguing, I wonder what sort of crap they were doing in there. Probably just herbs and small animal torture.

Mo Rocca did an interesting interview about her and the palace in 2017.

We've done this a few times on DL...

City of Rome has first rights to go against any bidder, but since no one has bothered they haven't exercised that right.

Property needs about $10, $15 or more million in restoration/repair work. On top of which it is a historical building so cannot be changed or (god forbid) demolished without permission. This obviously limits list of interested parties.

At best you want someone or thing with deep pockets that will buy the place (or make a low enough offer that city of Rome can match) and in tens of millions. If Rome got the property various pockets of rate payer or other funds would have to be found to do the repair and other work.