User:RichardScully

Richard Alan Scully (b. 1963), is a corporate lawyer at XO Communications, in Virginia, a company controlled by Carl Icahn, the well known financier. Richard, formerly married to Washington Post heiress, Katharine Weymouth, was one of the first to star in a “reality show” format on television, on the network show “48 Hours with Dan Rather,” in 1997, as the subject of the episode covering, “Dating in the Nineties.” Richard also played as a striker on the Washington International Soccer League (WISL) team, Temps & Co., which won the championship in the Spring of 1994 [1]

Family

Richard was raised in New York and London, where his father was an international tax lawyer for both Continental Oil Company, and Phillips Petroleum, (both of which later joined forces in a merger ) following an earlier tenure with ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia.[2]

Scully married Katharine Bouchage Weymouth on 25 July, 1998, the granddaughter of Katharine Graham, and the current CEO of Washington Post Media and Publisher of the Washington Post newspaper. The couple had three children and later divorced.[3]

Education

Richard studied at the American School in London, the Taft School, Ohio Wesleyan University and the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University.[4]

Career

Following service in Washington DC for the US Department of State in both the foreign real estate and consular divisions, Richard practiced corporate law for the global law firm Baker & McKenzie. He later worked in business development for Ruesch International (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Travelex, before joining XO.

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