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Jean Paul Getty

Biography

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J. Paul Getty reflects on the nature of wealth, 1960

 

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J. Paul Getty

 

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The True Story Behind the Kidnapping of Billionaire Paul Getty’s Grandson

 

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John Paul Getty III dies

 

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‘All the Money in the World’ Original Trailer

Jean Paul Getty was an English American industrialist, and the patriarch of the Getty family. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion. At his death, he was worth more than $6 billion. A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national product.