Linda grew up in the Bel-Aire section of Los Angeles, the daughter of millionaire Milton Bradley Scott, an advertising and film executive. In 1968, after attending finishing school in Switzerland, she married Michael Laughlin with whom she had a son, Scott Warner Laughlin. The couple divorced in 1971. After her father passed away in 2006, Linda (now going by the name Linda Laughlin) was involved in a lawsuit filed against her brother, Bradley Scott, regarding their father's multi-million dollar estate.