Behind every billionaire there is a story!

Sex and tongs - it’s divorce billionaire-style

IT IS the only divorce battle in history to feature the sex life of an American president, a philandering billionaire, a golden labrador named Beauregard and six pairs of vintage British asparagus tongs.

At 75, one of America’s best known conservative financiers has become embroiled in a romantic apocalypse that has convulsed Washington and thrilled Democrats who for years were on the receiving end of right-wing pressure groups lavishly funded by Richard Mellon Scaife.

It was Scaife who in the 1990s sank tens of millions of dollars into investigations into Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Arkansas past in the hope of securing the then president’s impeachment during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Yet now it is the same man who is seeing his colourful sexual history splashed across the newspapers. A brutal public falling out with his wife Ritchie has not only provided a jaw-dropping glimpse of sex among the super-rich, but has also provoked a stunning change of political heart.

Having once set out to destroy the Clintons, Scaife has now made friends with them. “I never met such a charismatic man in my life,” the Pittsburgh-based banking magnate declared of Bill Clinton. He has written a $100,000 (£50,000) cheque to the former president’s Global Initiative foundation and admitted to Vanity Fair magazine that philandering “is something that Bill Clinton and I have in common”.

When Scaife’s 60-year-old wife discovered that he was having an affair with a 43-year-old blonde former prostitute, she hired a detective who photographed the pair at a motel.

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