Obituaries
J. Paul Getty III was kidnapped in Italy in 1973. The kidnappers severed his ear and sent it to Getty’s father and grandfather as proof. His grandfather then paid $2.2 million. Getty was incapacitated by a stroke in 1981.
March 13, 2014
J. Paul Getty III dies at 54; scion of oil dynasty
Feb. 7, 2011
Television
“All The Money In The World” wasn’t enough.
March 24, 2018
Culture Monster Blog
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Feb. 8, 2011
FX continues to expand its limited series offerings, picking up the first 10-episode installment of “Trust,” a series centered around the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, heir to the Getty oil fortune.
March 9, 2016
Entertainment & Arts
John Paul Getty Jr., heir to an American oil fortune who traveled a tormented path from 1960s hippie excess and personal tragedy to become a contented patron of the British cultural establishment, died Thursday in a London hospital.
April 18, 2003
March 30, 2018
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Aug. 19, 1994
Movies
Dec. 25All the Money in the World The mother of kidnapped teenager John Paul Getty III races against time to persuade the boy’s billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom.
Dec. 24, 2017
Business
The Getty family, one of America’s wealthiest, on Thursday resolved its feud over a $4-billion trust after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered the lone remaining dissenter to agree to a plan that divides the mammoth bequest into four smaller trusts of $750 million each and sets aside $1 billion for taxes.
May 31, 1985