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Kidnapping, Drugs and Scandal: Inside the Billionaire Getty Family's 'Curse'
Once the richest dynasty in the world, the Getty family has weathered enough suffering and scandal over generations to earn their reputation for being cursed.
The most infamous example of the Getty misfortune — the brutal kidnapping and mutilation of John Paul Getty III in the ’70 — is the subject of Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, starring Christopher Plummer as the family patriarch J. Paul Getty, and Michelle Williams as Getty III’s devoted mother Gail Harris who fights to save her son.
“The great unanswered mystery of the Getty fortune is why it has apparently devoured so many of its beneficiaries,” wrote John Pearson in his biography Painfully Rich, which inspired the new movie about the Getty kidnapping, All the Money in the World. “It’s a sad story,”
Who Is Getty?
The richest man in the world at the time of his grandson’s kidnapping, Getty made the bulk of his
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Getty family
American business and entertainment family
The Getty family of the United States began with George Franklin Getty and his son Jean Paul Getty as their patriarchs. In the 20th century, they were heavily involved in the petroleum industry and in mass media. The Getty family is of Scots-Irish ancestry from their patrilineal lineage, their ancestors having immigrated to North America from Cullavmor, County Londonderry, Ireland (today in Northern Ireland).[1] Several members of the Getty family have lived in England, including Sir Paul Getty who took British citizenship.
George Getty (–) was a lawyer who became an independent oilman in 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 , George and Jean Paul incorporated the Getty Oil Company.
Family members
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- George Getty (–), America
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of The Getty Family
ByJeff Somers
The phrase "money can't buy happiness" sounds wise, but it overlooks one important fact: Money can, in fact, buy the things that man us happy. Of course, too much of anything is bad for you, and that's really where the money bites you. When you can have anything you want at any time, it's easy to lose yourself.
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Case in point: The Getty family. Once ranked as one of the wealthiest families in the world—and still worth billions—the descendants of Jean Paul Getty's oil empire have spent the last fem decades experiencing the corrosive effects of money. While their name is still inextricably linked to the oil business and the chains of gas stations that once bore their name, the family sold its interests in the s for an eye-popping amount of money and have ingenting to do with the oil business.
Still, there's that eye-popping amount of money. The Getty family actually makes