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George Franklin Getty (October 17, 1855 – May 31, 1930) was an American lawyer, pioneer oilman, father of industrialist J. Paul Getty, and patriarch of the Getty family. [1] Life and career.
Mar 25, 2018 · The House of Getty alleges that J. Paul Getty refused to accept the L.A. County coroner’s ruling that George’s death was “probably suicide”—a perceived mar on his legacy—and that the ...
Dec 14, 2020 · Learn about the tragic real-life story of the Getty family, one of the wealthiest and most dysfunctional clans in history. Find out how George Getty, the son of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, ended his life in a bizarre and tragic way.
- Jeff Somers
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, later to become Getty Oil.
Fortunately for sons Gordon and Jean Paul Jr., and the daughters of the deceased George Franklin Jr., Getty’s mother Sara established a trust in 1934 with substantial interests in Getty Oil. By ...
Jan 16, 2023 · The family fortune began in 1903, when a couple of flinty, frugal Minnesotans named George and Sarah Getty struck oil in Oklahoma.
Dec 25, 2017 · For those unfamiliar with the 1973 Getty kidnapping, the plot of Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World may seem ludicrous: the richest man in the world refuses to pay his grandson’s ransom ...
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