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   The break between George F. Getty and J. Paul Getty

Page entitled : Fallout between George F. Getty  and Jean Paul Getty

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How George Franklin Getty broke with his son Jean Paul Getty over management style and a failed marriage.


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Jean Paul Getty had found oil in one of his Athens leases and was ready to seek fortune in more distant places. He moved to Mexico, where he got an insight in the Mexican bureaucracy, as he secured at great efforts a lease near Tampico, which he promptly assigned to the Mexican Gulf Oil Company, for a 5% royalty. He was not interested to drill for oil in Mexico, but took a summer course at the National University to study local history and Spanish. In Mexico City, he met the Ashby sisters, Allene and Belene, daughters of  ...

 

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