Gabriela Teixeira has won a High Court probate battle over her late husband Abbas Moaven’s £5 million fortune, after a judge ruled that four disputed properties do belong in the estate. The decision means the widow and her two children, Elis and Aryan, are now set to inherit assets that had been pushed out of the estate by papers signed weeks before Moaven’s death.

The ruling matters because those four properties were valued at over £3 million and, without them, the estate could have been stripped down until debts left it with little or no value. Teixeira challenged the documents with her children after Moaven’s brother, Amir, relied on them to argue the properties were not wholly his.

Teixeira married Moaven in 2002, two years after they met at one of his Notting Hill establishments, and the family has spent years fighting over what was left behind when he died at 45 in 2012. Deputy Master Timothy Bowles said the account behind the papers was a fiction and a sham, and ruled that the properties fall into Moaven’s estate to be inherited by Teixeira and the children.

That finding goes to the heart of the dispute. Weeks before his death, Moaven signed legal documents saying the four properties were not entirely his and were shared with his mother and brother, which would have substantially reduced what passed to his widow and children. But Bowles rejected that version, ending the attempt to keep the assets outside probate and restoring the properties to the estate’s value.

Teixeira, who is described as a birth doula and yoga teacher, has not been made to wait for another hearing to learn whether the family assets will be counted. The judgment has already answered the central question: the four properties are part of Abbas Moaven’s estate, and the inheritance fight now turns on that ruling rather than on the paperwork that tried to rewrite it.

Abbas and Amir Moaven moved to the UK from Iran in 1982 and later started the west London clothing shop Homeboy together, a business history that sits behind the family’s wider property holdings. What remains unresolved from the public record is the exact legal path the judge took to reach his view, but on the main issue Teixeira has prevailed and the disputed properties are back inside the estate.