The sauce will spill, as the siblings of celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito seek to boot him as executor of their mother’s estate, claiming he’s pocketed rents from a Brooklyn apartment building she owned but failed to pay the property taxes.
Nicolina DiSpirito, 87, made hundreds of meatballs a day on DiSpirito’s 2003 reality show, “The Restaurant,” becoming a fixture who would often walk the red carpets with her TV-star son.
She died in 2013, naming Rocco her executor and leaving him half her estate, while son Michael and daughter Maria each got 25 percent.
But Rocco has dragged his feet probating the will and racked up needless expenses that are draining the already meager estate, which was estimated to be worth less than $1.5 million, his siblings charge.
Unpaid taxes and water bills for his mother’s Pacific Street building, which has six units and a storefront, have hit more than $23,000, according to court papers.
Rocco refuses to sell the building, even though the family could get roughly $800,000 for it, Michael and Maria claim.
And instead of splitting up Nicolina’s personal belongings, as she directed in her will, Rocco’s racked up tens of thousands in unpaid bills to store what his siblings estimate is less than $20,000 worth of stuff.
“Rocco DiSpirito’s neglect, waste, inaction and misconduct accomplishes nothing other than increased expenses and legal fees for the estate,” the siblings wrote in court papers seeking Rocco’s removal as executor.