Gabi Grecko joins fight to contest Geoffrey Edelsten’s will

The fight for Geoffrey Edelsten’s will has taken another dramatic turn with a third person joining the contest for his estate.

The battle over colourful businessman Geoffrey Edelsten’s will has taken yet another turn with his widow, New York-based aspiring rapper and former exotic dancer Gabi Grecko launching legal action for a slice of the estate.

Lawyers representing Grecko, also known as Glitta Foxx, Widow Foxx or Gabi Glitta, filed the claim in the Victorian Supreme Court prior to Christmas under Grecko’s real name of Gabriella Rose Curtis.

Edelsten’s ex-wife Brynne Gordon and his son Matthew Beard are also contesting the will, with Gordon having launched legal action in July 2022 and Beard kicking off his action in April 2022.

Gabi Grecko earlier said she didn’t want anything from her late husband’s estate. Picture: Instagram

While they had separated several years earlier, Grecko was still married to Edelsten at the time of his death.

She told A Current Affair in July 2021 that she did not want anything from his estate but would now seem to have changed her position.

“I don’t want anything and I have made that clear,” she said.

Brynne Gordan with her then husband Geoffrey Edelsten.

Edelsten died in his Melbourne apartment on June 11, 2021, leaving an estate valued at just over $1m. It has been estimated about 40 per cent of the estate could be consumed by liabilities and legal costs.

Bizarrely, June 11 was the day he and Grecko wed in 2015.

In his will Edelsten left nothing to Gordon or Grecko, explaining that he had provided “substantially” and “excessively” for them during each marriage, and left his only child, Beard, $50,000. All three are seeking more money from the estate than left to them in the will.

Geoffrey Edelsten’s son, Matthew Beard. Picture: Instagram

Court documents show Grecko, who is described as Edelsten’s spouse, is claiming Edelsten had a responsibility to provide for her in his estate and is suing for “proper maintenance and support.”

She is also asking the court to extend the period for making an application for a family provision order under s99 of the Administration and Probate Act, as she is making her claim on the estate more than six months after the will was probated.

The action is listed as being between Gabriella Rose Curtis and Michael John Webb and Lindsay Lawrence Hosking in their capacity as executors of Edelsten’s will.