Teixeira Wins Probate Ruling Over £5 Million Moaven Estate

Gabriela Teixeira won a probate ruling in the High Court over Abbas Moaven’s £5 million fortune, after Deputy Master Timothy Bowles decided that four properties linked to the late businessman belong in his estate. The decision clears the way for Teixeira and the couple’s two children to inherit those assets.

The judge ruled that documents signed weeks before Moaven died were a “sham” and described the story behind them as “fiction.” Lawyers had estimated the estate could reach up to £5 million if the properties, worth more than £3 million, were brought back into the estate.

Deputy Master Timothy Bowles

Teixeira, who married Moaven in 2002, brought the High Court challenge against his brother Amir after Moaven died at 45 in 2012. The case turned on four properties that Moaven had signed documents about weeks before his death, declaring that they were not entirely his and saying they were shared with his mother and brother.

Bowles rejected that account and ruled that the properties do fall into the estate. That finding changes what remains available for Teixeira, Elis and Aryan to inherit, because the disputed properties were the part of the fortune most directly tied to the family’s challenge.

Abbas Moaven’s 1982 Move

Moaven and Amir moved to the UK from Iran in 1982 and later ran a west London clothing shop called Homeboy together. Teixeira met Moaven two years before their 2002 marriage at one of his Notting Hill establishments, before the family life at the center of the dispute began.

The ruling settles the ownership of the four properties and strips away the documents Moaven signed before his death. For Teixeira and the children, that means the estate now includes the assets the family had fought to restore, with the value of the inheritance rising from the dispute over those properties alone.