Schadenfreude for Richard Mellon Scaife

4:11 pm EST October 22nd, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

The divorce of right-wing scion Richard Mellon Scaife.

Unfathomable but true, when Scaife (rhymes with safe) married his second wife, Margaret “Ritchie” Scaife, in 1991, he neglected to wall off a fortune that Forbes recently valued at $1.3 billion. This, to understate matters, is likely going to cost him, big time. As part of a temporary settlement, 60-year-old Ritchie Scaife is currently cashing an alimony check that at first glance will look like a typo: $725,000 a month. Or about $24,000 a day, seven days a week. As Richard Scaife’s exasperated lawyers put it in a filing, “The temporary order produces an amount so large that just the income from it, invested at 5 percent, is greater each year than the salary of the President of the United States.”
The numbers are just one of many we-kid-you-not dimensions to this tale. In late 2005, Ritchie Scaife peered through a window at one of her husband’s many homes and saw him with one Tammy Sue Vasco, a woman whose colorful criminal history includes an arrest for prostitution. And this tryst was no one-afternoon stand. Ritchie Scaife describes Vasco in court filings as her husband’s “mistress.”

After all his years of scandal-mongering vs. the Clintons, ain’t karma a bitch?

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One Response to “Schadenfreude for Richard Mellon Scaife”

Diamond LeGrande says:

October 22, 2007 at 8:07 pm

Divorce papers are such a treasure trove of information. You gotta take it with a bit of salt, but it’s such fun to read.