Mrs. Scaife suing Richard Mellon Scaife for her stuff including dog

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06208/709003-53.stm

As in most situations when couples separate, Margaret "Ritchie" Scaife wants her stuff.

In her case, the wife of billionaire newspaper publisher Richard Mellon Scaife's stuff amounts to 414 items worth nearly $11.4 million, not to mention a yellow Labrador retriever named Beauregard deemed "invaluable."

Mrs. Scaife, who moved out of the couple's Shadyside home last year and has a legal separation agreement with the publisher of the Greensburg-based Tribune-Review newspaper, filed a lawsuit on Monday. She seeks to reclaim what she says were personal items she had before the couple married more than 10 years ago or gifts she received since then.

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The items Mrs. Scaife would like to have returned provide a glimpse of a lifestyle few could match. The average value of the 414 items is more than $27,000.

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Mrs. Scaife misses the dog so much she got into a scrape with three of her husband's employees in April, when she saw them with the dog on the street in Shadyside and tried to retrieve him. Criminal charges have been filed, but no hearing has been scheduled.

[KamaAina]

1. Maybe she's a "yellow dog Dem"

and that's why they split up?

[Fridays Child]

2. I wonder what she knows about the Arkansas Project and if she'd be...

...willing to talk about it. Hmm....

[Divernan]

3. Gotta get your ducks in a row BEFORE you separate

Most people meet with a divorce attorney a couple of times before they make a final decision to get a divorce, and while they are still living in the marital home. Any attorney worth their salt advises them to arrange to remove any personal belongings before they leave and/or the day before their spouse gets served with notice. It should have been no problem to pick a day when Dickie was out spreading evil through the world and have the movers come in and strip the place. You'd think she'd at least have taken the dog if she really cared about it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. He'll probably try to get her to settle

for 380,634 copies of "Godless," which he just happens to have warehoused.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. I thought it said "for Richard stuffing her dog"

Silly me.

[warrens]

6. I hope this one drags on for years

Make that miserable old fascist sot as unhappy as possible.