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Kidnapped : the tragic life of J. Paul Getty III
The true account behind the glamorous life and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973, as seen in Ridley Scott's 'All the Money in the World' and Danny Boyle's 'Trust J. Paul (\"Little Paul\") Getty III,' the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping defined the decade--and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions.
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Inside Story: Getty's burgh J Paul Getty died in 1976 leaving more money than his trustees could handle. Now, rising in the hills above LA, a new museum complex is causing consternation in the art world. Mike Bygrave reports
Once again, the British art world is in a tizzy over the sale of an Old Master to California's Getty Museum. Never mind that it took an Englishman - Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, usually described as `Britain's richest, most eligible bachelor' - to sell the Poussin landscape for $26 million. Apparently, it's all the fault of the predatory Getty for buying it. For the last 20 years, the Getty hasn't been able to do anything right, ever since the late oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty transformed his small, provincial boutique museum into a super-rich arts organisation by leaving it a staggering $4 billion (at current values) in his will. What Getty's several biographers can't resist calling `the curse of Getty' has been in force ever since, on both sides of the Atlantic. If the British see the Getty as a bunch of nouveau riche Americans buying up other people's art, Americans tend to see it as a group of arrogant elitists on the European model.
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Alone together : my life with J. Paul Getty
It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing \"Alone Together\" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and America's first billionaire. In her passionate, unflinchingly honest memoir of two outsize lives entwined, Theodora \"Teddy\" Getty Gaston, now one hundred years old, reveals the glamorous yet painful story of her marriage to Getty. As formidable as he was, Teddy was equally strong-minded and flamboyant, and their clutches and clashes threw off sparks. She knew the vulnerable side of Getty, he underwent painful plastic surgery and suffered terrible phobias, that few, if any, saw. A vivid love story, Alone Together is also a fascinating glimpse into the twentieth century from the vantage point of one of its most remarkable couples. This is how the other half lived, dinner dances, satin gowns, beach houses, hotel suites, first-class cabins on the Queen Mary. Teddy's extra-ordinary life story moves from the glittering nightclubs of 1930s New York City to Mussolini's Italy, where she was imprisoned by the fascist regime, to California in the golden postwar years, where Paul and Teddy socialized with movie stars and the elite. But life with one of the world's richest men wasn't all glitz and glamour. Though terrifically charismatic in person, Getty grew more miserly as his wealth increased. Worse, he often left Teddy and their son, Timothy, behind for years at a time while he built planes for the war effort in the 1940s or brokered oil deals, he was the first American to lease mineral rights in Saudi Arabia, which made him, at his death, the richest man in the world. Even when Timothy was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Getty complained about medical bills and failed to return to the United States to support his wife and son. When Timothy died at age twelve, the marriage was already falling apart. Teddy's unrelenting spirit, her valiant friendship, and her winning lack of vanity transform what could have been a sob story into a nuanced portrait of a brilliant but stubbornly difficult man and the family he loved but left behind, as well as an enchanting view into a bygone era. This was a life lived from the heart.
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The Great Getty Curse
On Mar 31 Andrew Rork Getty, 47, grandson of oil baron J. Paul Getty (once the richest man in the world), was found dead in his Beverly Hills home, reportedly naked from the waist down in a pool of blood. The grim scene was the latest in a too-strange-for-fiction series of family tragedies. This April the LAPD declares Andrew Rork Getty's gruesome demise a natural-caused death, noting that he had a whole plethora of medical issues. A recap of the Getty family tragedies are listed.
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ACCORD ON SPLIT OF GETTY TRUST
Seth M. Hufstedler, an attorney for 17-year-old Tara G. Getty and any unborn or unascertained heirs, had argued that the settlement did not protect the interests of future heirs. But in signing the agreement today, Mr. Hufstedler cited ''great efforts toward family peace'' as a primary reason for his decision. [J. Ronald Getty], however, will not benefit from the settlement. After a bitter divorce from his third wife, Adolphine, [J. Paul Getty] stipulated that Ronald, his son from that marriage, could only receive $3,000 annually. As a result, Ronald Getty's quarter of the principal of the original trust will be subdivided into three smaller trusts for his four children, who will receive it upon the death of the last of J. Paul Getty's sons. The case began in 1983, when Mr. Hufstedler asked the court to appoint a corporate co-trustee on behalf of Tara, [Eugene Paul Getty]'s youngest son. After the Getty Oil sale, [George Franklin Getty] 2d's three daughters filed suit charging their uncle, [Gordon P. Getty], with violating the trust's terms and of leaking inside information during the sale.
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