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Gordon Peter Getty (born December 20, 1933) is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. [1] When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$ 2 billion trust.
In 1986, 10 years after the death of his father, Gordon sold Getty Oil to Texaco for $10 billion. Gordon had four sons, as far as was known to the outside world.
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]
Sir Paul Getty and Abigail Harris married in 1956 and divorced in 1964. In 1966, Sir Paul married his second wife, Talitha Pol, who died 1971. He then married Victoria Holdsworth in 1994. [4] John Paul Getty III (1956–2011), born Eugene Paul Getty Jr., was a son of Sir Paul Getty with Abigail Harris. John Paul Getty III married Gisela Martine ...
Gordon Getty and his family inherited a 40% interest in the company when J. Paul Getty died in 1976. [2] [3] In 1984, after entering into a binding agreement to sell Getty and its 2.3-billion-barrel stockpile of proven oil reserves to Pennzoil, Gordon Getty struck a dramatic deal to sell the company to Texaco. [4]
Sir Paul Getty KBE (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i /; born Eugene Paul Getty; 7 September 1932 – 17 April 2003), known widely as John Paul Getty Jr., was a British-American philanthropist and book collector. He was the third of five sons born to J. Paul Getty (1892–1976), one of the richest men in the world at the time.
Andrew Rork Getty [2] was born in 1967 [3] in San Francisco, California. [4] [5] His father, Gordon Getty, is an heir and classical music composer. [6] His mother, Ann Gilbert Getty, was a philanthropist. [4] His paternal grandfather, J. Paul Getty, was the founder of the Getty Oil Company. [7] [8]
All the Money in the World is a 2017 biographical crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa.Based on John Pearson's 1995 book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty, it depicts the events surrounding the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and the refusal of his grandfather, the multi-billionaire oil tycoon J ...