Ex-Congressman’s Wife Is Now a Princess

The State: “Rita Jenrette burst on the scene as the second wife of Rep. John Jenrette (D-SC), a rising star of Democratic politics turned bad boy and federal prison inmate. He was seen as a Kennedy-like candidate, groomed for greatness, with a blond and beautiful wife, personable and not quite as staid as some of the wives of Washington, D.C.”

“Today, nearly 50 years later, Rita Jenrette is Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi of Italy, the third wife of the now-deceased Prince Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, living in a 500-year-old Roman villa valued at nearly half a billion dollars.”