Melissa Caddick’s man Anthony Koletti bunkers down in humble unit as their old home sells for $10m
Anthony Koletti now keeps a humble unit in Sydney’s east, a week after the Dover Heights pad he shared with his conwoman lover Melissa Caddick sold for $10m. See the pictures here.
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There's no garbage chute to the basement like he is used to, or even an internal elevator, but Anthony Koletti is adjusting to his simple new life.
A week after the palatial home he shared with his conwoman lover Melissa Caddick sold for more than $10 million, and almost two years to the day since she vanished, Mr Kolleti was spotted doing chores at his modest new rental.
Wearing Air Jordan retro boots which sell for $1200, Mr Koletti, 39, tinkered on the balcony before taking a bag of rubbish out to the street.
Home for Koletti these days is a basic two-bedroom unit in Vaucluse which costs him $600 per week.
His new digs boasts “built-in wardrobes, an airy balcony and new blinds”, according to an online rental advertisement.
There’s one bathroom to share with Caddick’s teenage son who also lives with him, and a small kitchen.
Neighbours in the three-level block which is just metres from Waverley Cemetery said they see Mr Koletti each morning as he leaves to drop the teenager to school, but otherwise he stays inside.
Perhaps he’s monitoring the online auction of Caddick’s jewellery and artworks which are listed to be sold off before Christmas, including Canturi necklaces worth $500,000 each and a John Olsen painting valued at more than $25,000.
Last week, the Dover Heights home he shared with his fraudster lover sold for over $10 million, not that Mr Koletti will see any of those proceeds, as liquidators try to pay back the victims Caddick squandered.
The four-level, five bedroom house with 180 degree views of Sydney Harbour underwent a major “facelift” after Caddick vanished from it on November 12, 2020 a day after the place was raided by ASIC investigators.
A tradesman who worked was brought in to spruce up the property for its recent sale told The Daily Telegraph that even the floorboards in the kitchen and living area had been ripped up as part of the search for missing Caddick.
Multiple property stylists and agents were brought in to get the property ready for sale, under strict confidentiality.
“It was pretty full on, we got told we couldn’t take photos, had to sign papers and stuff … I had no idea whose house it was,” the tradesman said.
The Federal Court granted receivers permission to auction off the conwoman’s goods to try and recoup some of the more than $23 million she stole from investors over an eight-year period.
Caddick was declared dead after a shoe containing the partial remains of her foot washed up on a south coast beach.
Originally published as Melissa Caddick’s man Anthony Koletti bunkers down in humble unit as their old home sells for $10m
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