Trinny Woodall’s ex husband Johnny Elichaoff has been rumoured to be linked to a “ring of death” after plummeting to his death in 2014, at the age of just 55. Trinny tied the knot with Johnny back in 1999, and the couple welcomed daughter Lyla together before divorcing amicably in 2009, after a decade of marriage.

Johnny sadly fell to his death after suffering a string of failed oil investments. He had travelled to Whiteley’s shopping centre in Bayswater 11 days before his death and been talked down from jumping from the car park roof, before he was briefly sectioned. He returned twice more in five days, before a fourth visit sadly resulted in his fatal fall.

The inquest into his death heard that Johnny had purposely “rolled” himself off the roof, despite previous claims that witnesses heard “gunshots”.

Speaking about her ex-husband’s death, Trinny said on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast: “Do I regret that I didn't do more for my ex-husband to stop him killing himself? No, because it was nothing I could have done."

She added: “When I heard about Lyla's dad, Lyla was at school and my first challenge was how can I even tell her, how can I say the words to tell her."

But it later emerged that four of Johnny’s associates also died in similarly mysterious circumstances. Property tycoon Scot Young also died in 2014 after falling 60ft from a fourth-floor window of a luxury Marylebone apartment block, aged 52.

His death was not treated as suspicious.

Scot and Johnny were in the same social and business circles, who all had ties to Russian oligarchs and their hands in high-stakes property deals.

Meanwhile, another figure said to be in the “ring of death” was Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, who was found dead at his Berkshire home in 2013 with a ligature around his neck. He had also suffered financially after a lost lawsuit. He was 67.

The inquest into his death recorded an open verdict.

Property developer Robert Curtis, who was also linked to Johnny, died in 2012 after falling under a London Tube train. And businessman Paul Castle died after being struck by a Tube train in 2010.

Each man had reported financial difficulties at their time of death, and were all said to be involved at various times in property deals with wealthy Russian investors.

None of the deaths were ever treated as suspicious, and there has never been a police investigation linking them.

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