What happened to John Paul Getty Jnr?

What happened to John Paul Getty Jnr?

THE US: John Paul Getty II, a US oil tycoon turned Anglophile philanthropist, died yesterday, aged 70, after a chaotic life of drugs, scandal and cricket lived in the shadow of his legendary tycoon father.

Who did Getty leave his money to?

Getty, who died in 1976, left the bulk of his estate to the Getty Museum, but his children inherited billions through a trust with interests in Getty Oil; it was later split up when son Gordon Getty orchestrated the sale of Getty Oil to Texaco in the late 1980s.

What happened to Paul Getty the third?

Getty died at his father's estate at Wormsley Park, Buckinghamshire, on Febru, aged 54, following a long illness. He had been in poor health since his 1981 drug overdose.

Is Paul Getty still alive?

Deceased (1956–2011) John Paul Getty III

How did John Paul Getty became paralyzed?

Getty was permanently affected by his kidnapping and suffered from drug and alcohol addiction during the years that followed. In 1981, he drank a Valium, methadone, and alcohol cocktail which caused liver failure and a stroke, leaving him quadriplegic, partially blind, and unable to speak.

Did John Paul Getty pay the ransom for his grandson?

Getty called a family council, and he struck a deal… one with both the kidnappers and his own son. The ransom was haggled down to $3 million—Getty agreed to pay $2 million, which, his lawyers advised him, was the maximum amount he was allowed to write off on his taxes.

Is it J Paul Getty or John Paul Getty Jr?

• Not to be confused with John Paul Getty Jr. or John Paul Getty III. Jean Paul Getty ( / ˈɡɛti /; Decem – J), known widely as J. Paul Getty, was an American-born British petrol-industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family.

How did Jeanjean Paul Getty make his fortune?

• Jean Paul Getty was an American success story. Given $10,000 to invest by his father, Paul built up the largest private fortune in the world over the next few decades. Despite being a relatively late entrant into the oil industry during its boom years, Paul had a nose for the business and was wildly successful.

How old was Ann Rork when she married John Paul Getty?

• Ann Rork (1932–1936); two sons Eugene Paul Getty, later John Paul Getty Jr (1932–2003) and Gordon Peter Getty (born 1934). Getty was introduced to Rork when she was 14 years old, but she did not become his romantic partner until she was .

Did Jean Jean Paul Getty leave his children penniless?

• Jean Paul Getty left the bulk of his fortune to the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, but that didn't leave his children penniless. As Forbes notes, the family's personal fortune stemmed from a trust that Paul's mother had set up in the 1930s—a trust that controlled about 40 percent of the Getty Oil business.