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Jean Paul Getty Sr. (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i /; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. [1]
The J. Paul Getty Museum Trust was established by business tycoon J. Paul Getty in 1953. [2] Getty had founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942, and Fortune magazine named him the richest living American in 1957. [5] At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion. [6] Getty died in 1976 [7] and left the bulk of his estate
Getty Oil Company was an American oil marketing company with its origins as part of the large integrated oil company founded by J. Paul Getty. They went defunct in 2012. They went defunct in 2012. History
The Getty Villa opened in 1974 by Billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, according to the nonprofit Los Angeles Conservancy. The art patron modeled the site off a Roman country house buried by the ...
The family members include: [2] George Getty (1855–1930), American lawyer, married Sarah Catherine McPherson Risher (1853–1941) . J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), wealthy American industrialist and founder of Getty Oil, married five times and had five sons:
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 ...
The Getty Villa is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which includes the largest endowment of any museum in the world, estimated at more than $8 billion in 2023. It houses the trust's collection of ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. [1] It is operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust , the world's wealthiest art institution.