The Cipriani Five: Suicide or Murder?

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

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4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Property tycoon Scot Young had a £700 million fortune, partied with supermodels...and plunged from his fourth-floor flat onto iron spikes. Did a messy divorce and bad business decisions cause him to take his own life, or was he murdered by the Russian mafia? Follow the money trail that leads around the world and links to a mysterious UK suicide cluster, political assassinations, and the Panama Papers.

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0:00.0	It was December 8th, 2014. Just a few weeks before Christmas, at the height of the holiday
0:08.3	party season in London, 52-year-old property tycoon Scott Young was pacing in his fourth floor
0:14.5	flat in Montague Square. Until recently, Scott had been living in that flat with his 30-year-old
0:19.9	fiancé, Noel Reno,
0:22.5	a blonde American former model and reality TV star.
0:26.9	Scott had been on top of the world.
0:29.2	He was a multimillionaire property developer, and he had an estimated net worth of over 700 million pounds.
0:36.3	But Scott Young's world had gone down in flames.
0:39.8	He had been embroiled in a divorce battle with his wife,
0:42.9	49-year-old Michelle Young, that had lasted several years
0:46.1	and made headlines throughout the UK.
0:48.7	He claimed that he had lost all of his money,
0:51.7	and he was convinced that people were following him and out to get him.
0:55.4	His relationship with Noel seemed to be like a fairy tale. Actually, the relationship was a plot
1:00.8	line on the TV show Ladies of London, which aired on UK TV and also on Bravo in the US.
1:07.2	They had been dating for five years, and recently they had been on the show talking about their engagement and sipping champagne.
1:14.4	But their relationship was on the rocks, and Noel had told Scott she wanted him out of the apartment.
1:21.6	On the day of his death, Noel later told investigators she was at the flat when Scott showed up.
1:27.0	He had reportedly been treated for bipolar disorder and cocaine addiction in the past.
1:31.5	He had been admitted to rehab a few days earlier.
1:34.7	Apparently, he was having some kind of a manic episode.
1:38.5	Noel said that when Scott showed up, he was sober, but he seemed scared.
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