Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Publisher
William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The story of J. Paul Getty and how his enormous wealth, $4 billion divided between nineteen heirs, wreaked havoc with the lives of his family.
"When sixteen-year-old Paul Getty was kidnapped, the news exploded worldwide. But his grandfather, J. Paul Getty, the richest living American, refused to pay th ransom, oblivious to his sufferings. And as the days dragged painfully on, it was Paul's distraught but determined mother Gail who was left to negotiate...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Oil magnate J. Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, is the patriarch of an extraordinary cast of sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. While some have been brought low by mental illness, drug addiction, and one of the most sensational kidnapping cases of the 20th century, many of Getty's heirs have achieved great success. In addition to Mark Getty, a cofounder of Getty Images, and Anne G. Earhart, an award-winning environmentalist,...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing "Alone Together" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and America's first billionaire. In her passionate, unflinchingly honest memoir of two outsize lives entwined, Theodora "Teddy" Getty Gaston-now one hundred years old-reveals the glamorous yet painful story of her marriage to...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request