Melissa Caddick’s husband charged with assault

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Anthony Koletti, the husband of the deceased conwoman Melissa Caddick, has been charged with the assault of an elderly woman in Vaucluse.

The 73-year-old woman told police she had been assaulted by a man about 5pm on July 23 in Lighthouse Reserve, the cliff-top park that runs along much of the eastern side of Vaucluse.

Melissa Caddick and her husband Anthony Koletti.

The reserve is just streets away from the Dover Heights home Koletti and Caddick shared before her disappearance in 2020, and the last place she was seen before she vanished.

The woman did not require any medical treatment.

The Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command shared a CCTV image of the man on Facebook on July 29.

A CCTV image was released by police following the alleged assault.

Nine News approached Koletti on Wednesday evening as he left the hair salon where he works, but he refused to answer questions. About fifteen minutes later, at 6.30pm on Wednesday, Koletti handed himself in at Waverley Police Station and was charged with common assault.

Koletti was released on conditional bail and will appear before Downing Centre Local Court on September 5.

Caddick vanished in November 2020 following a raid on her house by the corporate watchdog. Her partial remains, contained in her running shoe, washed up on a beach three months later. In 2023, a coroner concluded she was dead, but the manner of her death remained inconclusive.

Over eight years, Caddick funded her extravagant lifestyle by stealing more than $23 million from her family and friends who thought they were investing in shares.

Nine News spoke to Koletti on Wednesday evening.

Koletti and Caddick married on New Year’s Eve 2013. Following Caddick’s disappearance, Koletti claimed he was entitled to millions of dollars of his wife’s proceeds of crime.

Koletti later abandoned his multimillion-dollar claim on his wife’s estate, with the court ruling he could keep his wedding ring, a watch and two of his wife’s dresses.