Biography of the billionaire Getty

At one time, Paul Getty was one of the richest people of the planet. However, unlike other billionaires, he treated his savings too carefully. Sometimes the situations reached the real absurdity, for example, when Getty refused to pay pennies for the laundry, washed his things with his hands and scolded one of his wives for spending “too much money” on the treatment of their deadly ill son.

His father, George Getty, worked for some time a lawyer, and then “got involved” into an adventure, which sharply enriched the family. The man acquired the hectares of land in Oklahom and began to produce oil, founding the company Minnehoma Oil Company. Soon, George moved his wife and son to the Oklahoma, who supported his undertaking, and a few years later he became a millionaire and the owner of the company, which monthly mined near Barrels of raw oil.

After - the family moved to California, where he graduated from the Polotechnical Secondary School on Paul Getty, entered the University of South California, and then to Oxford, having received a bachelor's degree in political science and economics there. The man gave his son $ 10 for the purchase of his own site. A year later, the floor of Paul baked oil, and the guy became a millionaire.

With his first capital, Getty returned to Los Angeles, spent his time carelessly for several years, and then, he returned to the oil business forever in the year. During the years of carefree California life, Getty received the fame of Lovelas, and in the X managed to get married and divorce three times. Due to his stormy personal life, Getty Getti had problems with women and law.

So, when the guy was 25 years old Elsi Elsi sent Getty a lawsuit to establish paternity and accused the young man of rape. As a result, the floor settled the case, giving 10 dollars for this, and Elsi remained to raise her daughter alone. A series of unsuccessful marriages forced the father of Paul, George, to doubt her son. Having decided that the guy is too careless of life, he cut the share of his son in his state.

Because of this, after the death of his father, Paul Getty was inherited by all dollars. In the year, when the man was already 38 years old, he again married a young girl Anne Rock, who at that time was only 23 years old. However, young people broke up 4 years after Rock sued Getty to the court for emotional violence and a dismissive attitude towards her and children.

At the age of six, the boy found a brain tumor. When Louise tried to cure the child with all her might, Paul Getty scolded the woman for spending too much money on the salvation of a terminally ill person. When the boy died at the age of 12, Getty, who lived abroad, did not even fly to the US funeral in the United States. The most loud situation related to his personality occurred in the year when the man was already 81 years old.

The bandits promised to return the guy safe and safety in exchange for ransom in the amount of $ 17 million today today is about million dollars.

However, grandfather, Paul Getty, was in no hurry to save the grandson. The man said that the abduction is most likely adjusted to extort money from him. Answering the questions of journalists, Getty said: “I have 14 grandchildren, and if I pay at least Penny ransom, I will have 14 abducted grandchildren”, even the abductors themselves did not expect such a gesture. In one of the telephone conversations with the mother of the abducted boy, they asked: “Who is this so -called grandfather?

The bandits believed that they were taken for “fools” and did not believe that one of the richest people in the United States refuses to pay money for the salvation of their grandson. However, even here the stingy grandfather was not so unequivocal in his actions - the man paid only $ 2.2 million, and the rest of the amount - lent the guy's father under interest. After a time when the mother persuaded her son to call his grandfather and thank him for his help, Paul Getty simply did not pick up the phone.

Subsequently, Getty III became dependent on alcohol and drugs, suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed until the end of his life. The heritage and the last years of life, despite the fact that in the last years of his life, Paul Getty could afford almost any luxury, the man lived in the Sutton Plais hotel and used a telephone working on coins. Along with this, he continued to lead a violent personal life, using an experimental drug to maintain potency.

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