Richard Mellon Scaife Has Spent $140+ Million on Right-Wing Propaganda Outlet, Divorce Records Revea

[HowHasItComeToThis]

Source: Buzzflash

PITTSBURGH The estranged wife of billionaire and newspaper owner Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh banking heir turned media mogul, was awarded $725,000 a month in temporary support during their acrimonious divorce, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Sunday.

Scaife, 75, and his second wife, Margaret Ritchie Battle Scaife, are battling on several fronts, from how to assess and divide his wealth to custody of a yellow Labrador retriever named Beauregard, the newspaper said.

A judge may also have to decide whether the $20 million to $30 million a year she claims he spends to support the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review constitutes a business loss, as he contends, or spending on a hobby, as she sees it. Scaife owns the newspaper - a rival to the Post-Gazette - along with the Tribune-Review of Greensburg and several smaller dailies and weeklies.

Forbes magazine this year estimated Scaife's wealth at $1.2 billion, ranking him No. 799 on its list of the world's billionaires. The divorce papers, though sealed, were available online for several days last month on Allegheny County court's Web site, the Post-Gazette said.

"Wife cannot possibly expend the guideline amount of support no matter how lavishly she chooses to live," Scaife's lawyers wrote in court papers seeking to have the award reduced.

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TALK ABOUT EVIL INCARNATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aquart]

1. Hope he marries again and again and again.

Hope his wives spend like Donald Trump.

[redqueen]

2. Well... at least he's not lubing up any of our candidates.

Yet?

[donheld]

7. he's not openly lubing up any of our candidates.

Mr Scaife usually does things very secretly. You can be sure he's giving money to someone.

[redqueen]

8. *sigh*

x(

[groovedaddy]

3. Only $725,000 per month!

What's a woman to do!?!

[sarcasmo]

6. I couldn't even imagine that kind of money.

I could survive nicely on 75 grand.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Is his ex-to be claiming half of that money was hers and wants it back?

[Warpy]

5. How much is 1.2 billion?

At three quarters of a million dollars a month, Mrs. Scaife will need to live an additional 137 years to run through his fortune.

There are 798 men in the world who are richer than he is.

THAT is evil, incarnate.

[spag68]

9. This is not a new thing

The evil that is the scaife-mellon money goes back to Andrew Carnegie, with the suppression of the steel workers by pinkerton guards. This family has always been an embarrassment to Pgh. Unlike the Heinz family that supported the union workers, these sickos have squeezed the workers of Pgh. for every penny they could get. Finally shutting down all the steel mills and ovens rather then making them more friendly to the environment in the sixty's. They sold us all out and whatever happens to them will not get any sympathy from me.

[BrklynLib at work]

10. I sure do hope it is acrimonious enough that she spills some heretofore unspilled beans...

:bounce:

Sorry for the schadenfreude..but....too bad. Once in a while one reaps what one sows.