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Jean Paul Getty Sr. was an American petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the longtime patriarch of the Getty family. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was the son of pioneer oilman George Getty. In 1957, Fortune magazine named J. Paul Getty the wealthiest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records declared him to be the world's wealthiest pri…
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business · American industrialist (1892–1976) · art collector · autobiographer · entrepreneur · industrialist · patron of the arts · also J. Paul Getty, Jay Paul Getty, Jean Paul Getty, Paul Getty, Getty
Born 15 December 1892 · Died 1 January 1976 · Q318591
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“the in-and-out traffic flow at Sutton subsided. Management and operation of the house settled into a reasonable routine. With that, the pay telephone [was] removed, and the dial locks were taken off the telephones in the house.”
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Moviefone: The Solitary Billionaire: J. Paul Getty
USA Today rated the claim “Thousands of children are being held under the Getty Museum” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “There are “100,000 kids in cages” under the Getty art museum.” Pants on Fire.
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At age 99, Getty's fifth wife, Louise, known as Teddy Getty Gaston, published a memoir recounting how Getty had scolded her for spending money too freely in the 1950s on the treatment of their six-year-old son who had be
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Ranked him as the 67th wealthiest American who ever lived (based on his wealth as a percentage of the concurrent gross national product)
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Was rendered speechless, nearly blind, and partially paralyzed for the rest of his life
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Getty died of heart failure at age 83 in Sutton Place
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Died 1976-01-01.
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“If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”
“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”
“Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals”
“Quando não se tem dinheiro, pensa-se sempre nele. Quando se tem, pensa-se somente nele.”
In a Lauria filling station, in the province of Potenza, shortly after the ransom was paid
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'Ndrangheta kidnappers abducted Getty's 16-year-old grandson, John Paul Getty III, and demanded $17 million (equivalent to $123 million in 2025) for his safe return
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Getty himself appeared in a 30-second television commercial for the E
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Getty merged these holdings into Getty Oil
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Getty threw a 21st birthday party for a relative of his friend, the 16th Duke of Norfolk, which served as a housewarming party for the newly purchased Sutton Place
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Purchased Sutton Place, a 72-room mansion, from George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland, for £60,000, about half of what the duke paid for it 40 years earlier
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And was the longtime patriarch of the Getty family
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Getty's mother convinced him to contribute to the establishment of a $3
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Getty returned to business in Oklahoma
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When he was 25, Elsie Eckstrom filed a paternity suit against Getty in Los Angeles, claiming he was the father of her daughter
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Enrolled at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, on November 28, 1912
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When Jean was 10 years old, his father traveled to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and bought the mineral rights for 1,100 acres (450 hectares) of land
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Born 1892-12-15.
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