Billionaire’s Support for Pittsburgh Paper is at Issue in Court Case

By: Dave Warner | CJR

A conservative billionaire, heir to one of the country’s great fortunes. His wealthy children, with whom he had sometimes-strained relationships. And the newspapers he loved.

All have roles in a court case now playing out in Pittsburgh, which pits the grown children of Richard Mellon Scaife against the trustees who worked with Scaife as he poured money into the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and other publications for years before his death in July at age 82.