The first wife of a multimillionaire ice cream tycoon has beaten his current Russian spouse in a bitter family inheritance fight over his £4.75m fortune.
Ernesto "Ernie" Colicci died of Covid in 2021, aged 66, having spent nearly 40 years carving out a London-based ice cream "empire" alongside his first wife, Josephine Colicci.
Ernie had arrived in the UK from his native Italy in 1982 "with a dream to sell ice cream", and over subsequent years created a business based around 35 sites across London's parks, operating a blend of cafes, boutique restaurants and vintage ice cream trucks.
