Death-fall tycoon’s ex-wife promises ‘explosive’ film
TYCOON Scot Young’s amassing of a £400 million fortune and his spectacular r uin has appalled and intrigued London society in equal measure. Now his fascinating life story is to be given a worldwide audience. I hear the late property tycoon’s former wife, Michelle, is in talks with U.S. studio bosses to make a film about Young, who was found impaled on railings in December after falling from his fourth-floor London flat.
‘I am meeting people from Hollywood next week,’ Michelle tells me. ‘There is a film in the works. I’m keeping quiet about everything at this stage. You don’t know the half of what happened; the truth hasn’t come out yet — it’s pretty explosive.’
A coroner decided last month that Young’s death at the age of 52 could not be ruled a suicide due to ‘insufficient evidence’. Michelle has previously said he might have been murdered and she feared for her own life. ‘It’s all highly suspicious,’ she said. ‘Scot had a terrible phobia of heights. He would never have even leaned out of a window.’
He was said to have been dangled by his legs from a window at the Dorchester hotel two years earlier in a dispute over his debts.
The Dundee-born son of a footballer became a ‘fixer’ to Russian oligarchs, but claimed he had lost his fortune in Project Moscow, a secretive property development scheme that collapsed in 2006.
Michelle, who divorced Young after an eight-year battle, won’t say who she would like to portray her on screen, but no doubt Young’s former fiancee, socialite Noelle Reno, would want to play herself.
Young was the sixth member of the clique involved in Project Moscow to have died in what has become known as the ‘Ring of Death’.