Open Marriage

From Vanity Fair’s press release on their new Scaife article …

In his first interview in eight years, Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Pittsburgh banking fortune who sunk nearly two million dollars into exposing Bill Clinton’s misdeeds and infidelities and is now facing the end of his second marriage because of an affair, tells Vanity Fair writer Michael Joseph Gross that philandering “is something that Bill Clinton and I have in common.” Scaife talks about a “very pleasant” lunch he and Clinton had last summer and says he “never met such a charismatic man in [his] whole life.”

Asked whether his behavior is hypocritical given his political commitments, Scaife does not refer to moral principles but to his own history. His “first marriage ended with an affair,” he says, and he doesn’t believe monogamy is an essential part of a good marriage. “I don’t want people throwing rocks at me in the street. But I believe in open marriage.”