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  2. Getty Oil - Wikipedia

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    A Getty roadside gasoline station in Cheshire, Connecticut (2011) J. Paul Getty incorporated Getty Oil in 1942. [1] He had previously worked in the oil fields of Oklahoma along with his father George Getty. When George died, he left J. Paul with $500,000 and a projection that he would destroy the family business. [1]

  3. J. Paul Getty - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. Column: The Getty oil fortune, a family scandal and an ...

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    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. In 1999, however, the news emerged ...

  5. Getty family - Wikipedia

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    George Getty (1855–1930) was a lawyer who became an independent oilman in 1904. 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 1916, George and Jean Paul incorporated the Getty Oil Company.

  6. John Paul Getty III - Wikipedia

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    John Paul Getty III (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i /; born Eugene Paul Getty II; November 4, 1956 – February 5, 2011) [1] was the grandson of American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who was once the richest man in the world. While living in Rome in 1973, he was kidnapped by the 'Ndrangheta and held for a $17 million ransom. His grandfather was reluctant to pay ...

  7. Trust : Revisiting George Getty’s Mysterious, Violent 1973 Death

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    At the time of his death, George had been the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Getty Oil Company since 1967. According to John Pearson’s book on the Getty family, ...

  8. Skelly Oil - Wikipedia

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    Skelly Oil Company was a medium-sized oil company founded in 1919 by William Grove (Bill) Skelly, Chesley Coleman Herndon and Frederick A. Pielsticker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] J. Paul Getty acquired control of the company during the 1930s.

  9. Column: The Getty oil fortune, a family scandal and an ...

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    A former Getty financial advisor accuses the family of cheating on its taxes by millions of dollars. Column: The Getty oil fortune, a family scandal and an alleged multimillion-dollar tax scam ...