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Several members of the Getty family have lived in England, including Sir Paul Getty who took British citizenship. 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.
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 .
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] A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was the son of pioneer oilman George Getty.
The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty. One of his sons, Mark Getty, co-founded the visual media company Getty Images. At birth, he was given the name Eugene Paul Getty, but in later life, he adopted other names, including Paul Getty, John Paul Getty, Jean Paul Getty Jr. and John Paul Getty II.
She is a member of the Getty family, the granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, a British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company. She co-founded the Climate Emergency Fund in 2019. The fund has distributed over $4 million to several environmental activist organizations including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil. [1]
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 $17 million ransom. His grandfather was reluctant to pay ...
The Getty family of the United States made its money in oil in the 20th century. Some members of the family have lived in England and have taken British citizenship . Subcategories
Gordon Peter Getty (born December 20, 1933) is an American businessman and classical music composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father's fourth wife. [1] When his father died in 1976, Gordon assumed control of Getty's US$ 2 billion trust.