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The husband of deceased conwoman Melissa Caddick will fight charges he assaulted an elderly woman in an Eastern Suburbs park earlier this year.
Police allege Anthony Koletti, 43, shoved a 73-year-old woman in Vaucluse’s clifftop Lighthouse Reserve on July 23. He was charged with common assault after a public appeal for the suspect’s identity.
Anthony Koletti arrives at the Downing Centre Local Court on Friday.Credit: Sam Mooy
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.
Koletti appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court on Friday, telling Magistrate Megan Greenwood “that’ll do” when she asked if she had pronounced his surname correctly.
Unrepresented by a solicitor, Koletti said he understood the charges and would be fighting them.
He did not respond to questions from media, and will return to the same court next month.
Anthony Koletti with his wife Melissa Caddick.Credit: Instagram
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.
Koletti and Caddick married on New Year’s Eve in 2013. Following Caddick’s disappearance, Koletti claimed he was entitled to millions of dollars of his wife’s proceeds of crime, including her Gucci wedding dress, $7 million in shares, $2 million worth of jewellery, artworks, $360,000 in proceeds from the sale of their luxury cars, as well as two properties he said were valued at $20 million.
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.
For a look back at Caddick’s cons and disappearance, listen to the 2022 podcast, Liar Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions, from investigative reporter Kate McClymont and Nine’s Tom Steinfort.
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