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   Jean Paul Getty - death and will

Page entitled : J. Paul Getty's will and the Getty Museum endowment 

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How J. Paul Getty got more and more estranged from his family and left the bulk of his fortune to the Getty Museum.


Extract :
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The old billionaire showed even less interest in his grandchildren. With the exception of his namesake, Jean Paul Getty III, who was his darling when his parents lived in Italy, he had little or no relation to any of them. When precisely the one which once was his preferred grandson got kidnapped in Italy, the old man refused to pay the ransom, until the kidnappers sent an ear of the seventeen years old boy to a newspaper. Even then, he merely lent the money, ...

 

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