Tell our editor what you think. Last Year Documents Show Denise as Player in Hubby's Empire Scandal Rich Investigators from the U.S. Attorney's office have been poring through dusty records stashed in a New York court storeroom, looking for clues as to whether Marc Rich, the onetime fugitive financier, used his former wife, the songwriter Denise Rich, to pass political contributions to Bill and Hillary Clinton in exchange for a January pardon.
All sides deny any wrongdoing.
At the heart of the investigators' search is a 1993 New York lawsuit, filed by Denise Rich against her ex-husband, whom she accused of defrauding her, as well as the children's trusts. Nonetheless, the picture that emerges from the documents is that of an angry and feisty former wife who had herself been a knowledgeable stockholder, beneficiary, and player inside the Rich empire. It's hardly the cheery picture of songwriter Denise the pizza-loving girl next door who'd rather hang out with Natalie Cole and write pop songs. In the years after he married Denise in the early 1960s, Marc Rich enjoyed a meteoric rise in the commodities industry. In 1983, Rich and two of his key companies were indicted on 51 financial charges, including tax evasion.