THE son of a multi-millionaire “car boot king” is embroiled in an inheritance dispute as he goes after his father’s £43 million fortune.
Richard Scott died in 2018 at the age of 81, leaving his fortune to his second wife and former cleaner, Jennifer Scott.
Macclesfield ExpressRichard Scott, died in 2018 at aged 81, leaving his fortune to his wife Jenifer[/caption]
Champion News ServiceITV’s Car Boot Challenge was filmed on Richard’s £43 million property in Cheshire[/caption]
Champion News Service LtdHis son Adam is disputing the inheritance, claiming his father’s dementia meant he couldn’t sign a will amendment[/caption]
Champion News ServiceRichard married his former cleaner Jennifer in 2016, and the pair had seven children together[/caption]
He amassed his £43 million fortune through running a Cheshire farm where ITV’s Car Boot Challenge was filmed.
Adam Scott, 62, the eldest of Richard’s 19 sons is now suing his step-mother after he claims he was promised the farm.
He says he spent 40 years working on the farm, starting at the age of nine, with the inheritance promised as a reward.
After marrying Jennifer, who is 28 years his junior, in 2016, Richard proceeded to write Adam out of the will.
Instead he left his new wife in charge of his “huge quantity of land” which is officially valued at £7 million, although Jennifer believes it to be worth around £43 million based on offers.
The pair began dating in 1994.
In a High Court legal battle, Adam is suing his stepmother over her inheritance of his father’s land.
He argues that his father was not in his right mind when he amended and signed his final two wills.
Adam had previously tried to prevent Richard’s wedding to Jennifer, claiming his dementia had incapacitated him.
It led to Richard being interviewed by four registrars and a lawyer from the local council, who confirmed he did have the capacity to marry.
Richard’s other children all “had expectations of inheritance” according to The Telegraph.
He fathered six children with his first wife, six illegitimate children during that relationship, and a further seven children with Jennifer.
Once Adam paid the probate value of the land, he believed his other siblings would be “provided for either by rental income or a lump sum paid”, as per the original inheritance plan.
Through the court proceedings, Adam hopes to restore his father’s 1995 will which granted him “a 40-year tenancy of his father’s farm and an option to purchase the farm at its pprobate value”.
When Richard amended the will in 2016, Jennifer’s two sons, Gordon and William Redgrave-Scott, and Adam’s sister Rebecca Horley also became beneficiaries.
The dementia that Richard was diagnosed with in 2011 had reportedly left him almost “incapable of speaking” by 2016.
Jennifer’s lawyers claim that Richard had cut his son out of the will after he tried to have him sectioned by social services in September 2013.
A further complaint by Adam in July 2025 that Richard was abusing Jennifer and his children led to an investigation that was later closed.
Alex Troup KC, representing Jennifer, said: “Richard was angry with Adam for reporting him to social services and their relationship deteriorated as a result.”
The lawyer also claimed that Adam had already been awarded land and property worth more than £10 million while his father was still alive.
The trial is ongoing.
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