Scot Young

Scot Young (10 January 1962 – 8 December 2014[1]) was a Scottish property developer, who came to media attention during a protracted and bitter divorce case brought by his former wife Michelle.

Michelle managed to persuade the court that Scot had failed to provide complete financial information, and he was jailed for six months.

However, a leaked document showed that he had used a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, and other offshore businesses to hide assets in Russia, the British Virgin Islands and Monaco.

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".

At the time of his death, Young lived at 33 Montagu Square with his former girlfriend, Noelle Reno, an American fashion entrepreneur and former model,[7] whom he had started dating in 2009.

Although mentally stable prior to his wife's divorce proceedings and his subsequent imprisonment, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had been treated for drug and alcohol abuse following this radical change in his life.