The Eviction of the Texas Princess
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.7 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi lived many lives—as political researcher, congressional wife, Playboy model, and actress. But it would be her role as wife of an Italian prince that would eventually lead her into the battle of her life: an inheritance fight for a $500 million villa. [The archive mentioned in the episode epilogue here]
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| 0:56.1 | Unwrinkled porcelain skin and pearls dripping onto her black overcoat, noted that the crimson |
| 1:03.3 | cloth baldachin hanging over pictures of her late husband was found only in homes that |
| 1:10.0 | descended from popes, end quote. |
| 1:14.1 | This is one of the first sentences of a 2022 New York Times article written by reporter |
| 1:21.9 | Jason Horowitz. |
| 1:24.1 | With a subject, Prince Opessari the Bun Companion Ludovisi, widowed wife of Italian |
| 1:31.7 | prince Niccolo Bun Companion Ludovisi. |
| 1:35.6 | She was formerly known as Rita Jenrette and Rita Carpenter before that. |
| 1:42.4 | Americans marrying into European aristocracy, even royalty, is of course statistically rare, |
| 1:50.8 | but not without plenty of examples. |
| 1:53.7 | Long before Meghan Markle, Grace Kelly will pop into mind for some, and of course there |
| 1:58.8 | was the cultural wave of the American dollar princesses during the Guilted Age, the women |
| 2:05.3 | whose marriages supplied struggling European houses with cash and new money American families |
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