Richard Mellon Scaife was born on 3 July 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Margaret Ritchie Rhea Battle and Frances Louise Gilmore. He died on 4 July 2014 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Andrew W. Mellon, United States Secretary of the Treasury (1921-1932) in the presidential administrations of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover administrations was a great uncle of Richard Mellon Scaife.