Texan Princess Faces Eviction from $533M Rome Villa with Caravaggio Fresco.

Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, a Texas-born princess, was evicted from a historic villa in Rome that contains the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio, following a bitter inheritance dispute. The villa has been in the Ludovisi family since the early 1600s and was put on the court-ordered auction block last year as part of the inheritance dispute and assigned a court-appraised value of 471 million euros ($533 million), in large part due to the Caravaggio. The princess has been accused of violating a previous order forbidding her from conducting guided tours of the property and failing to maintain the home in a “good state of conservation” after an exterior wall crumbled.