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Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife dies at 82

By Joe Mandak
Published July 4, 2014 3:37pm ET
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Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife dies at 82
FILE - In this Oct. 23, 1997, file photo, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, owner and publisher of the Tribune Review newspapers in Pittsburgh and Greensburg, Pa., greets visitors as they enter the paper's new facility in Warrendale, Pa. during the dedication of the building. Scaife, who published the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and funded libertarian and conservative political causes, including a one-time effort to discredit President Bill Clinton, died at his home early Friday, July 4, 2014, one day after his birthday, The Tribune-Review newspaper reported. He was 82. In 2013, Forbes estimated his wealth at $1.4 billion. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) | Keith Srakocic

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortune and a newspaper publisher who funded libertarian and conservative causes and various projects to discredit President Bill Clinton, has died. He was 82.

Scaife died early Friday at his home, his newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, reported. Scaife’s death comes less than two months after he announced in a first-person, front-page story in his Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he had an untreatable form of cancer.

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