Rita Jenrette is an American actress, television journalist, and real estate executive.
18 Facts About Rita Jenrette
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In 1974, Rita Jenrette was a visiting lecturer at the Taft Political Institute at Trinity University.
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In 1977, Jenrette worked as a research associate at the Office of Technology Assessment then under the co-chairmanship of Senators Hubert H Humphrey and Edward M Kennedy.
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Rita Jenrette co-authored a report with Ray Hoehle on the Food for Peace program, which was presented to the Presidential Commission on World Food Hunger.
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In 1978, Rita Jenrette was picked by the Washington Post Sunday magazine as one of four dynamic young women of Washington, DC.
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In 1982, Rita Jenrette received the Drama-Logue Critics Award for her performance in The Philadelphia Story.
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Rita Jenrette worked for the Republican party but in 1976 married Democratic South Carolina Congressman John Jenrette.
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Rita Jenrette appeared on the Phil Donahue Show and he called in live to join the conversation.
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Rita Jenrette gave an interview to Playboy that appeared in the April 1981 issue, accompanied by a nude pictorial.
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Rita Jenrette claimed that the couple was still "happily married" at the time the Playboy pictorial was photographed, although they had separated by the time it was published.
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Rita Jenrette again appeared in Playboy in the May 1984 issue on the cover and in a pictorial.
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Rita Jenrette separated from her husband in January 1981 and they were divorced shortly thereafter.
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Rita Jenrette met Prince Nicolo Boncompagni Ludovisi of Piombino in 2003 when working as a broker to develop a project on land he owned.
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Rita Jenrette was at the time married to his second wife, Ludmilla Boncompagni Ludovisi.
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Rita Jenrette resided for years on the premises and has opened it to the public, giving tours and hosting charitable events there.
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Rita Jenrette has promoted new research on the history of the property as well as the creation of a related scholarly resource, the Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi.
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On 20 April 2023, Rita Jenrette was ordered to vacate the Casino Ludovisi by order of a court of law as part of a ruling that she failed to maintain the historic property after a wall collapsed and blocked a nearby street.
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Rita Jenrette declined to leave, forcing the Carabinieri to evict her.