Melissa Caddick’s best friend says the conwoman’s family are at war over her lies and want a slice of her estate before friends who lost millions to her scam.
The 49-year-old fleeced about $23million from close friends and family members by convincing them she was a high-flying financial advisor.
But instead of investing the money in big return shares, she spent it all on luxury goods and holidays.
She vanished the day after police raided her Sydney mansion in November 2020, and was presumed dead when her foot washed up four months later on Bournda Beach, 400km south of the eastern suburbs home.
ASIC, the consumer watchdog, have been selling her remaining assets in an effort to pay her investors back which has reportedly caused rifts in her family.
In the finale for the podcast, Liar Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions, it was revealed that some of Caddick’s nearest and dearest are so divided over her deceit that they will ‘never speak again’.
One refuses to say her name – referring to her only as ‘that woman’.
Melissa Caddick fleeced about $23million from close friends and family members by convincing them she was a high-flying financial advisor
Her parents, Barbara and Ted Grimley (pictured), believe they are entitled to a slice of her estate
Caddick’s best friend Kate Horn, whose family lost $10million to the con, said the fraudster’s parents Ted and Barbara Grimley, both in their 80s, think they should be first in line for their slice of the…
