Rita Jenrette scandalized Washington in the 1980s when, as the wife of a disgraced congressman, she posed for Playboy. After eventually marrying into Italian nobility, she’s now saying arrivederci to the historic villa that’s been in her late husband’s family for 400 years.
photos, even with the scandal it caused in 1980s Washington. “If that's the worst thing I've ever done, then shoot me,” she says. “My husband, Nicolò, was always proud of me.”
It was during her time as a Manhattan real estate broker that she also met her second husband, His Serene Highness Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, then 61, through mutual friends in 2002. She was told he was an Italian prince, interested in building a hotel at one of his palatial family properties located outside of Rome. She was unimpressed.
“I knew how important it was to him, and it became very important to me,” she says, “We gave up everything. I didn't go out shopping and buy Birkin bags and shoes and the latest fashion—or anything else at all.” If the sale of Villa Aurora is completed next year, the Principessa is unsure if she’ll even stay in Italy. She floats the idea of renting an apartment in Rome but says she’s considering returning to New York. She’s recently been linked to Manhattan restaurateur Nello Balan, whom she has leaned on for support over the past year amid the inheritance dispute. “We're each other's cheerleaders,” she says.
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