After the death of Alessandro Torlonia in December 2017, his four children started a tough battle for the inheritance between attempts to sell the works of art abroad and the establishment of the Torlonia Foundation without the consent of the eldest son Carlo.
The danger of seeing an Italian heritage worth about 2 billion made up of 623 original ancient Greek and Roman marbles, from an Etruscan collection, some of the historic palaces of Rome such as Palazzo Torlonia in via della Conciliazione, Villa Albani on via Salaria and Villa Delizia in Castel Gandolfo in the hands of international collectors has triggered the war for the inheritance of one of the most famous families of the capital, the Torlonia.
It was precisely Alessandro's heir, the eldest son Carlo Torlonia, who turned to the court to clarify the matter and opposed his siblings Paola, Francesca and Giulio. Assisted by the lawyer Adriana Boscagli, Prince Carlo Torlonia claimed to have been estranged from his father in his last years of life: I "discovered the papers of the disease, current accounts closed shortly before his death, boxes closed and ready to be sent elsewhere ”, reads the appeal.
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