He jumped: Tycoon’s ex reveals her own verdict
Noelle Reno, socialite, reality TV star and former fiancee of businessman Scot Young, has broken her silence almost four months to the day since his death.
She confirms she had split up with her partner of five years before he fell out of her fourth-floor flat window in london’s Marylebone on to the railings below.
In a move bound to spark further controversy she also labels his death a ‘suicide’, pre- empting any coroner’s verdict. The inquest was adjourned in December and no date has yet been set to re-open it.
‘Four days before we were to depart
from Waterloo to Brussels somebody very close to me, named Scot young, unexpectedly committed suicide,’ reno writes in a blog post entitled ‘coping with grief’, explaining she had been due to travel to Belgium with girlfriends. ‘Scot and I had recently broken up after five and a half years of being together, for most of which we were engaged.’
reno, who was a regular on reality TV show ladies Of london, was spotted out in metallic shorts at a Knightsbridge soiree last month, her first public outing since the tragedy.
reno, 31, called the police after she and young had a blazing row and he later fell from the window. He had been involved in one of the UK’s most acrimonious divorce cases with his ex-wife Michelle after claiming to have lost all of his money in a mysterious russian property deal, and there was speculation he might have been murdered.
His was the latest in a series of ‘apparent’ suicides of a group of businessmen that some believe are linked to the russian mafia. Just one month before young died, his friend Johnny elichaoff, the ex-husband of TV presenter Trinny Woodall, fell to his death from a roof in West london.
reno, who had embarked on a project of visiting 12 countries in 12 months at the beginning of last year, inspired by the Julia roberts film eat Pray love, says that travelling helped her come to terms with her ex-fiance’s death.
‘I look forward to exploring this new journey in more depth as I come in to a new stage in my life,’ she says.