Scot Young was a Scottish property developer, who came to media attention during a protracted and bitter divorce case brought by his former wife Michelle.
10 Facts About Scot Young
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Michelle managed to persuade the court that Scot had failed to provide complete financial information, and he was jailed for six months.
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Scot Young suffered psychologically, and he received psychiatric support following his release.
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Scot Young was raised at No 8 Clepington Street, in the Stobswell area of Dundee, Scotland, the son of Duncan Young, a former Dundee United football player, and his wife Betsy.
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Scot Young began to make money in the property boom of the 1980s, with some help from his father-in-law.
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Scot Young was married to Michelle for eleven years, between 1995 and 2006.
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Scot Young claimed that a failed Russian property deal had left him in debt; Michelle disagreed, and in some media reports she alleged that he had "a few billion pounds at least".
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At the time of his death, Scot Young lived at 33 Montagu Square with his former girlfriend, Noelle Reno, an American fashion entrepreneur and former model, whom he had started dating in 2009.
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Scot Young died on 8 December 2014 after falling from a fourth-floor flat and being impaled on railings at 33 Montagu Square, Marylebone, London.
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An investigation by BuzzFeed in 2017 suggested that US spy agencies believed that the Russian state was involved in the death, and alleged that UK police shut down the investigation without conducting forensics tests or investigating Scot Young's alleged business ties with enemies of Russian President Vladimir Putin: said investigation was later made into a TV series, Once upon a time in Londongrad.