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George F. Getty died in 1930. He left his estate, in the form of the controlling interest in the family firm "George F. Getty, Inc.", and valued at between $10 million and $15 million U.S. ( $ 182.39 million and $ 273.59 million, respectively, in 2024), to his wife Sarah, although Jean Paul Getty became President of the firm.
George Getty (1855–1930) was a lawyer who became an independent oilman in 1904. He was married with one son, a daughter having died in infancy in a typhoid epidemic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lent his son Jean Paul money to invest in oil wells and in 1916, George and Jean Paul incorporated the Getty Oil Company.
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After his second wife's death, Getty became reclusive for a time and his heroin addiction worsened, fueled by guilt over his wife's death. In Rome on 10 July 1973, 'Ndrangheta kidnappers abducted Getty's 16-year-old son, John Paul Getty III, and demanded a $17 million (equivalent to $117 million in 2023 [13]) payment for
Hulton Archive/GettyIn September 1957, the American oil baron J. Paul Getty traveled to Italy to visit his son Paul’s family. Earlier in the year, his youngest son, Timmy, had died from a brain ...
Adolphine Helmle (1928–1932); one son, Jean Ronald Getty (1929–2009), whose son, Christopher Ronald Getty, married Pia Miller, sister of Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece. Like his first and second wives, Adolphine was 17 when Getty met her in Vienna. She was the daughter of a prominent German doctor who opposed her marriage to the ...
Charles Boehm wrote an unconventional obituary for his late 74-year-old dad Among Robert's quirks was his collection of harmonicas "to prompt his beloved dogs to howl continuously at odd hours of ...
Getty remained in Italy with his mother Gail and attended St. George's British International School in Rome. [6] In July 1971, his stepmother died of an alleged heroin overdose in Rome [6] and his father moved back to the United Kingdom, partly to escape charges of drug possession which he was facing in Italy. In early 1972, Getty was expelled ...