Scotland Yard are under pressure to take a second look after saying they are not treating Mr Young's death as suspicious

His ex-wife said she and the couple's two daughters are 'devastated'

Bravo reality star Noelle Reno's fiancé plunged to his death after falling from his $5million home and impaling himself on iron railings on Monday.

Scot Young, 52, suffered horrific injuries after plummeting four storeys from a window of his luxury central London penthouse.

Young, who was known as a 'fixer for the super-rich' had been with Ladies of London star Noelle Reno for the past five years and the couple were engaged to be married.

His death comes almost a year after an extraordinary six-year court battle with his ex-wife Michelle, 49, who won a $30million but said it was a ‘disgrace’ claiming he had hidden $630million of his wealth in offshore accounts.

Ms Reno, a 33-year-old originally from Seattle, Washington, was initially too upset to speak but on Wednesday released a statement saying: 'I am distraught by the sudden loss of my best friend and ask that you give me the respect and privacy I need to grieve in peace.'

She had previously told magazines that her partner had lost everything and said his bankruptcy had 'killed him'.

Mr Young had for years lived an extraordinary lavish life, owning six mansions in Britain, and counted Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and Simon Cowell as friends.

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Scot Young and Noelle Reno pictured on holiday together in Bali last year. Young, 52, fell to his death on Monday from his central London penthouse leaving Ms Reno 'distraught' at the sudden loss of her fiancé

Tragedy: Scot Young, pictured with Ms Reno, fell to his death from their Marylebone flat. The tycoon was at the center of one of Britain’s most acrimonious divorce cases involving ex-wife Michelle Young (right), 49, who said today she and their daughters were 'devastated'

Firefighters had to cut through the railings with an angle grinder before the body could be removed

Mr Young, pictured with his fiancée Noelle Reno, filming on the London Eye for her Bravo reality show Ladies Of London which aired this summer

On Wednesday night detectives were under pressure to re-investigate the fall amid fears they discounted foul play too soon. Officers have refused to say if he left a note. Some friends of Mr Young were also sceptical about whether he would have taken his own life.

One of them, who visited the scene of his death yesterday, said: ‘He was a great man and a good father who has been let down by the British legal system. We don’t know if it was suicide yet.’

Meanwhile his ex-wife Michelle Young spoke from her central London home on Wednesday, where she said that she and the couple's daughters Scarlet, 21, and Sasha, 19, were 'devastated' over Scot's death.

She had claimed her ex previously attempted suicide during their bitter divorce court battle and had been checked into the Priory Clinic in London for treatment.

During his divorce, Mr Young told the judge he suffered from depression which was accepted from his medical records. The business tycoon had also reportedly been sectioned twice under the Mental Health Act in the UK, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Police in London are not treating the death with suspicion. According to court news reports, the Metropolitan Police said the formal identification of Mr Young will be announced on Friday - five days after his body was discovered.

A friend who visited the scene, appeared to question whether the death was suicide, telling the Daily Telegraph: 'We don’t know if it was suicide yet.'

Questions have been raised over his business dealings, mostly recently a seemingly lucrative property development in Moscow with Russian associates, which allegedly went sour and left him with nothing.

There are few details of the deal, dubbed 'Project Moscow' but Young's friend, oligarch, Boris Berezovsky, was believed to have also invested.

Mr Berezovsky, was found hanged at his home in Surrey in March 2013. He had reportedly been suffering from depression, the injuries were consistent with hanging and there was no evidence of a struggle. The coroner recorded an open verdict on his death this March.

During the drawn-out court battle, she insisted her ex-husband was worth ‘billions’ as the judge ruled he had hidden $70 million from the court.

Scot fell 60ft onto the iron railings and police moved quickly to hide the distressing scene from onlookers.

Firefighters had to cut through the railings with an angle grinder before the body could be removed.

Neighbours said Mr Young had moved into the duplex apartment a few months ago with Ms Reno.

His designer girlfriend, who identifies herself as 30 but is actually 33 according to records, is a star of the Ladies of London TV show, which also features former supermodel Caprice.

In July she said their home would be 'happy little home, for our happy little life' when the couple were interviewed.

Scot Young, pictured on vacation, made millions from property deals, before telling a judge during divorce proceedings that he had lost his fortune

Noelle Reno (pictured far right) with her Ladies Of London reality show cast members Caroline Stanbury, Marissa Hermer, Juliet Angus, Caprice Bourret and Annabelle Neilson

Mr Young pictured with fiancée Noelle Reno while filming Ladies of London. She told an interviewer in April that he hated the experience of being on camera

Noelle Reno pictured with her former banking heir fiancé Matthew Mellon. The couple began dating in 2004 and called off their engagement in 2008

Ms Young said: 'I am devastated. I am here with my daughters and we have been to hell and back.'



Gary Sutton 57, who was working nearby when Mr Young fell, said: ‘It was a horrific scene. The police were visibly shocked – one said it was the worst thing he had seen on the job. It was all very distressing.’

‘It was horrible, I had to divert my eyes.’



THE RISE OF 'LADY OF LONDON' NOELLE RENO December 1981: Elizabeth Noelle Reno born in Phoenix, Arizona

1990s: Grows up in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a federal prosecutor and a housewife

1994: Aged 13, Ms Reno signs with Elite model agency

1998: She moves with her mother to LA aged 17 following her parents' divorce. Signed to an acting agent and stars in low-budget horror films

2004: at the age of 23, she began dating banking and oil heir Matthew Mellon, ex-husband of Jimmy Choo creator Tamara Mellon

2006: The couple establish cashmere fashion brand, Degrees of Freedom

June 2006: Mellon introduces Reno to Scot Young on a London street

2006: Matthew Mellon and Noelle Reno become engaged

2008: The couple split up, nastily, after four years together. She claims he forced her to sell her 49 per cent stake in Degrees of Freedom. She returns to the U.S.

2008: Reno starts dating Scot Young after bumping into him at Cipriani's restaurant. Young proposes three months later

December 2012: Reno ends the relationship as his divorce proceedings rumble on

January 2013 - Young sentenced to six months in prison for failing to produce documents demanded by the court

March 2013: He is released from prison

April 2013: The couple reunite

2013-2014: Reno signs up to star in new Bravo reality series Ladies of London

June 2014: The six-part reality series airs

December 8, 2014: Scot Young falls to his death from his central London penthouse Advertisement

Another witness said: ‘The police had covered the body but I could see from behind that he was on the spike because I could see his feet dangling towards the basement floor.'



The three-bedroom property from which Mr Young fell is next door to the former home of Ringo Starr.

Flats in the square sell for more than $4.7million and fetch rents of up to $12,000 a month.

Scot Young, who grew up on a council estate in Dundee, Scotland, had recently appeared in Bravo's reality show, Ladies Of London.

His fiancée, Noelle Reno, was one of the stars of the series which aired in June.

Much in the model of the wildly successful 'Housewives' franchise in the U.S., the show followed the cosseted lives of six London socialites including former model Caprice Bourret.

Young and Ms Reno got together in 2008 and became engaged shortly afterwards.

The reality star revealed this summer that she would not be getting married any time soon but had everything planned down to the last detail.

'I would not be capable of organizing a wedding at this moment,' she told OK Magazine.

'I’m used to running production and doing events for my businesses, so I don’t think that I will freak out. Also my wedding doesn’t need to be my most beautiful day. I’m kind of used to having my picture out there, I’m now on a freaking reality TV show, I don’t need all of the attention.'

She added that the wedding was going to be 'one big festival party' with great DJs.

In an interview with Bravo, Noelle said she had fallen in love with Scot because he 'has a confidence and protective nature that seduced me'.

The 33-year-old continued: 'Remember, I’m living alone in a foreign country. Over the period I've known him his confidence has dwindled as he’s been stripped of his dignity and privacy by all the divorce has brought.

'Nonetheless, he continues to be massively supportive of me in everything I do and in every aspect of my life.

'The fact that he is loyal, respectful, and empowering of women is paramount with me.'

Ms Reno, was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the daughter of a federal prosecutor and a housewife.

Mr Young with fiancée Noelle Reno who had been supporting the couple with her fashion designing and starring on reality show Ladies of London

Humble beginnings: Scot Young grew up on this council estate in Dundee, Scotland and transformed himself into a jet-setting property mogul

She told You Magazine earlier this year that she read Vogue as a teen to imagine a life outside suburbia before landing a contract with Elite model agency at 13.

She moved with her mother to LA in her late teens following her parents' divorce.

HOW SCOT YOUNG'S EX-WIFE WANTED £300M BUT ENDED UP WITH £20M IN 'MOCKERY' DIVORCE DEAL Scot Young's 11-year marriage to Michelle Young sparked one of the most bitter divorce battles of recent times and saw him end up in jail for contempt. Ms Young, right, the mother of his two children, called her ex-husband a man of 'no feeling' and claimed he hid his fortune to 'go off with a younger woman'. Following the split, a bitter battle for cash began and Mr Young offered his wife a $470million settlement in 2009. But the next year he claimed he was bankrupted by a disastrous deal and could not pay $43,000-a-month maintenance for his ex-wife and their daughters, Scarlet, 21, and 19-year-old Sasha. The divorcee who attacked her $31million court settlement as a 'mockery' and her property magnate-ex was jailed for six months for failing to provide details of his fortune to his estranged wife. She also attacked her husband for cruelly forcing one of their daughters into state education. The former couple battled in the courts for seven-years and Ms Young insists her case exposes how people fall through the net in family law. She said at the time: 'I have made a stand for women. My case has exposed the woeful shortcomings of the family law system. 'I don't want to go through this for nothing, I want to see the law changed to protect women like me with children by men who conveniently find they suddenly have no assets when they want to go off with a younger woman. 'I think and hope this case is making history'. Advertisement

After starring in a Mercedes-Benz commercial, she was picked up by an acting agent and appeared in a couple of low-budget horror films.

Noelle followed boyfriend Matthew Mellon, Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon's ex-husband, to London at the age of 20 and decided to stay in the city, even when they broke up.

She founded cashmere fashion brand Degrees of Freedom with Mellon, an oil and banking heir, which was backed by his enormous wealth.

The couple broke off their engagement amid bitter recriminations in 2008.

The former model then sued the multimillionaire for $47million accusing Mellon, who has a history of drug problems, of going on crack-cocaine binges and alleging that he wrongly accused her of embezzling business funds.

At one stage, because of his 'repeated drug relapses', Noelle said she got Mellon to sign a contract to pay her $1million if he fell off the wagon.

She returned briefly to the U.S. following the split while Mellon went on to date designer Nicole Hanley, who he went on to marry and have two children before starting a lifestyle brand.

It was through Mellon that she met Scot Young.

‘It was in 2006 – June 21st or 22nd,’ she told You Magazine earlier this year. ‘Scot was driving around Belgrave Square and he pulled over to say hello to Matthew. And then we were introduced. There was definitely a spark.’

Young started dating Noelle in 2008 and proposed to her within three months. But the couple were unable to get married because of his acrimonious divorce.

In December 2012, she ended their relationship as his divorce proceedings dragged on to its fourth year.

The following month, Young was sentenced to six months in prison for failing to produce documents demanded by the court.

In an interview with You Magazine earlier this year, she described going to visit him in prison.

'It was a bit grim,' she said. Young was locked up for almost 23 hours a day, and lost 25lb in weight.

‘But what I love about Scot is that he’s a real man. He didn’t complain,’ she added.

Young served three months and the couple reunited a month after he was released. She said in April: '‘He’s got a hold on me, I don’t know what else to say.'

Noelle had been financially supporting her fiancé by working as a TV presenter, brand ambassador and clothing designer.

She had partnered with fashion designer Zandra Rhodes for a clothing line called Z - which failed to get off the ground.

She joined the cast of Ladies of London, which aired earlier this year, along with four other American-born women - 'Stepford wife' Marissa Hermer, brash Chicago-native Juliet Angus, sex symbol-turned-mom Caprice Bourret and the vegan Lady Julie Montagu.

The reality star admitted that her middle-aged fiancé was far from happy with the intrusive, reality TV cameras that moved into their Marylebone apartment - and had initially refused to take part.

Miss Reno said at the time: 'He is a very private person – you’ll see on the show that he hates the cameras.

'Scot has spent his whole life paying people to keep him out of the press. I said, "Fine, but then you’re not going to see me this summer." So he’s in it. He hated every second.’

Last picture: Scot Young was last seen with his fiancée Noelle, together left, with friends at a Christmas Party in London on November 27

Mr Young had built up a substantial business empire and owned assets including a home in London, a $33million Oxfordshire mansion and residences around the globe.

He was once said to be worth $630million and traveled the world by private jet.

But he claimed to have suffered a financial catastrophe in the years after the end of his 17-year relationship to Mrs Young, with whom he had two children.

The pair began their relationship in 1989 and married in March 1995, before separating in 2006.

Following the split, a bitter battle for cash began and Mr Young offered his wife a $470million settlement in 2009.

But the next year he claimed he was bankrupted by a disastrous deal and could not pay $43,000-a-month maintenance for his ex-wife and their daughters, Scarlet, 21, and Sasha, 19.

Over the next four years, Ms Young grappled for what she saw as her fair share of her ex- husband’s wealth.

A friend of Scot Young, Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was found hanged in March 2013

She demanded half his assets, claiming he was worth ‘a few billion pounds at least’ but had hidden his cash in a series of secret investments.

In November last year, a judge granted the pair a divorce and ruled that Mr Young would have to give his ex-wife a $31million settlement and pay her $8 million legal costs.

He then launched a scathing attack on the Youngs, saying he felt ‘nothing but sympathy’ for their two children, and criticising the warring couple for failing to be ‘child-focused’.

Mr Justice Moor said: ‘It is undoubtedly the most difficult financial remedy case I have ever come across.

‘This case has been extraordinary even by the standards of the most bitter matrimonial breakdowns.

‘Extremely serious allegations have been bandied around like confetti. In many respects this is about as bad an example of how to litigate as I have encountered.’

In January last year, Mr Young was jailed for six months for refusing to disclose full details of his wealth to the court.

Miss Reno stood by him after he was jailed. In an interview with the Mail earlier this year, she said the loss of her partner’s wealth ‘kills him’.

She added: ‘He still can’t deal with it. It has been so traumatic for him.’

A spokesman for Miss Reno said she was 'too upset to speak about the tragedy last night'.

A Met Police spokesman said: ‘A man, believed aged in his early 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene. The death is not being treated as suspicious at this time.’

Additional reporting: Tania Steere

Scot Young and Michelle pictured on their wedding day at Chelsea Registry Office, London, in March 1995

Neighbours said Mr Young had moved into the duplex apartment a few months ago with his American girlfriend Noelle Reno (together left). He claimed to have suffered a financial catastrophe in the years after the end of his 17-year relationship to Mrs Young (right), with whom he had two children, called Scarlet and Sasha

After they separated in 2006, a bitter battle for cash began. Mr Young offered his wife (pictured) a $470million settlement in 2009 but she ended up with around $31million

How Britain's rich and famous including Simon Cowell and Sir Philip Green were dragged into Scot Young's divorce row

Scot and Michelle Young enjoyed a lifestyle known only by the world’s wealthiest, globe-trotting by private jet between their vast homes.

Inhabiting a world few people can imagine, the couple mixed in a superleague of power players including Simon Cowell and Sir Philip Green but it all ended in the most bitter of divorces.

Details of their fantastic riches were aired in court during six-and-a-half years of skirmishes.

Before their split, the couple lived in unimaginable luxury. They owned six mansions in Belgravia, Britain’s most exclusive postcode, and the family home was $33million Wood Perry House in Oxfordshire, described as ‘Buckingham Palace in miniature’.

Friends: Scot Young was friends with Simon Cowell and Sir Philip Green, both pictured last week, and his divorce battle revealed how the tycoon was lent money by rich friend when he claimed he became penniless

They also had a $5.4million beach house in Miami, a yacht in Monaco, employed a small army of servants and housekeepers, and dined in the finest restaurants.

They drove fabulous cars, including two Mercedes Gullwings worth $1million each. Mr Young had a $1million watch, and said jewelery he bought for his wife’s 40th birthday cost $235,000.

But the court heard how Mr Young said he fell on hart times and needed loans from famous friends.

Tragedy: Mr Young, who had been in a relationship with reality star Noelle Reno, died on Monday after falling from the fourth floor of his London home

In statement to the court, retail tycoon Sir Philip Green said he had loaned Mr Young $125,000 in 2008 ‘as a favour’ to help pay for a Regent’s Park flat for Mrs Young.

Restaurateur Richard Caring confirmed that he loaned Mr Young $80,000 as he had known him for many years and wanted to help him through his financial difficulties.

Mrs Young, 49, sensationally alleged that the two men, along with X Factor impresario Simon Cowell and the late Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky were involved in a conspiracy to hide her husband’s assets.

Her bombshell claim to the High Court came as she pursued former property developer Mr Young for part of the billions of pounds she said he had hidden.

But Mr Young said he was left penniless after the collapse of a Moscow deal that cost him his entire fortune virtually overnight.

She even alleged her husband was a major shareholder with Cowell’s American Idol show, and added: ‘I am told I will never find out the truth because these people are wealthy and powerful.’

Mr Young, a former fixer to the super-rich, told the court his wife’s claims were those of a ‘fantasist’ and rejected her accusation that his friends were ‘sheltering’ his money.

He had met Cowell fewer than five times and had ‘never had any business with him’, and it was ‘laughable’ that he had a secret shareholding American Idol.

Mr Young claimed he had ‘probably bumped into Sir Philip in the street once and seen him outside a nightclub once’ in two years.

He said he had had no income since 2006 and was living ‘with the support of friends’.

Sir Philip, Mr Cowell, Mr Caring and Mr Berezovsky, who was found hanged at his Ascot mansion earlier this year, all dismissed her allegations of a conspiracy.