Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Du Rififi at Palazzo Doria Pamphili

Two lawyers in large confabulation in an anonymous piece of the 8th section of the Civil Court of Rome. The judge listens, nods and eventually return both parties to a different audience. That is the public face of a case before the epilogue weighs one billion euros. Nothing else filter. In this court where everyone can come and borrow a piece of file, documents relating to case No.

4408/2007 are safe. The lawyers, like their customers refuse to talk. Yet everybody knows, at least in name. This name carries much of the history of Italy. There are owners, a pope, Innocent X, cardinals, a palace on the Via del Corso in Rome, another in Genoa, castles and abbeys, farms and land, fourteen tracks, a church and one of largest private collections in the world.

In the salons of the Nobilta romana, it says, it computes, we take advantage. Divided between supporters and opponents of Jonathan and Gesine Doria Pamphili, the Roman nobility asks: should be modern with Jonathan or "traditional" with Gesine? To understand, it takes a little concentration, a taste for genealogy and interest in bioethics.

Then, it goes alone. Descendants of one of the oldest and noblest families of Italy (the first track named Doria back to the year 941), Gesine and Jonathan were both adopted in Britain in the 1960s by Orietta Doria Pamphili and her husband Frank Pogson commoner. Boasting a dual British-Italian nationality, became Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili, the brother and sister have a different conception of the family, nor the management of their heritage.

It was to resolve the dispute that continues Jonathan Gesine the court of Rome. Gesine, 46, married to an Italian art expert very devout, has four daughters aged 6 to 16. Its activity in the field of art and conservation of family wealth and the devotion are in line with its prestigious ancestors.

Jonathan, 47 years, just lost control of the business is another invoice. Gay said, it has seen the Gay Pride sponge. Already the thing has a bit disheveled at the palace. Married in a civil partnership in Britain with a Brazilian, Elson Edeno Braga, he also has two children, Emily and Andrea Filippo, born to two different surrogate mothers - in Kansas, five years ago for Emily, Ukraine there are four for Andrea Filippo.

Asked on 26 January in the daily La Repubblica, Jonathan said: "Being myself an adopted child, I learned that the family is made up of those who love you and helped you grow." In 2009, Gesine stated according to comments reported by the British newspaper The Telegraph: "I'm against surrogacy.

Okay, everyone has the right to have children, but children have the right to parents. " Hence we see that their positions are irreconcilable. In theory, children and those of Jonathan Gesine should therefore, on that day, sharing titles, fortune and good name of Doria Pamphili. But there's a catch.

Italian law does not recognize the type of fertilization which come from Emily and Andrea Filippo (and punishes even a prison sentence of three months to two years imprisonment). Only the rights of the person who carried the pregnancy to term are recognized. So nothing prevents a woman from Wichita (Kansas) and Kiev (Ukraine) to land one day in Rome to claim the children they gave birth - and after them a share of Titian, Raphael, Rubens, Caravaggio and (why not?) the famous portrait of Innocent X by Velazquez, as Francis Bacon saw as "the most remarkable portraits ever painted." This is to keep the collection intact as Gesine, she says, introduced in 2007, a lawsuit for "denial of paternity 'against his brother, which would deprive Emily and Andrea Filippo their inheritance.

It is not, "she said again, to judge the moral life of Jonathan, but to remain faithful to the will left by his mother, Orietta, that the legacy of the Doria Pamphili should not be dispersed. Referred to in footnotes, that's more than three years now that the case against Pamphili Pamphili has a gaggle of lawyers, but no outcome is found.

Gesine laments: "Unfortunately, there are no solutions in sight." This on-site court simply contrary to Jonathan to declare victory. In a press release dated December 13, 2010, generously distributed by his press service, he welcomed the court's decision not to have acted at the request of disavowal of paternity made by his sister and says ironically disposed to him " forgive if she expresses regret that only true Christians can express.

" Until that day, the prince and princess do not talk more. In the private palace of the Via del Corso, where Jonathan remembers with nostalgia for making slips on the marble galleries with her sister, the Doria Pamphili avoid each other as next-door neighbors who come to compete for a banal story stair cleaning.

In truth, the thing is not that difficult. The palace has a thousand pieces ... Ridet @ bbc. Philippe en Ridet Article published in the edition of 22.02.11

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