Playboy Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi has said she’s been left “deeply disorientated” after being evicted from her $500 million home.
The Texas-born model was reportedly given just 30 minutes to leave her 400-year-old home amid a bitter legal battle with her stepsons, who are princes.
After exiting the 32,000 square feet villa in Rome, Princess Rita said she wasn’t even allowed to take her car with the whole ordeal leaving her dogs traumatised.
The 73-year-old was made to leave the art-filled palace she shared with a family of Ukrainian refugees following a five-year legal battle in which her three stepsons claim they own a portion of the Renaissance villa and the surrounding estate.
The former model had been granted the grand villa for life by her late husband, Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, in his will.
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Princess Rita has been embroiled in the dispute with Princes Bante, 52, Ignazio, 56, and Francesco, 58, which came to a head last month when she was ordered to leave.
Now living in temporary quarters on the outskirts of Rome, Princess Rita told the New York Post that the whole ordeal had been “very Kafkaesque, and deeply disorienting”.
The US native has seemingly been plunged into financial peril with her assets being frozen along with the blow that an Italian court has ordered her to pay her stepsons’ legal costs.
Due to head to another temporary residence in Paris, Princess Rita said: “Bante has been very aggressive with me for no reason. None of it had to happen this way. I’m pretty easy to get along with.
“I lost my home of 20 years, my Ukrainian guests were thrown out on the street with no place to go, my dogs are traumatized, and the custodian [judge] would not let me take my car.
“None of it had to happen this way. I’m pretty easy to get along with.”
Masha Bratashevska, 40, a stylist from Kyiv, has said that Italy has become a second home to her and her youngest children, Elisabetta, seven, and Vlad, eight.
“Thanks to Rita, this place became a second home for us, where we were able to calm down and restore normal life, especially the children” said Bratashevska, “The news of the eviction was absolutely stunning and shocking for us.
“Princess Rita has become a real Guardian Angel of our family. I know how much Rita has done for this villa…It is very painful that such injustice exists.”
