| Hardbitten oilman, spectacular lover, absent parent, miserly art collector, philandering and bigamous husband, bohemian expatriate,.social snob, physical coward, Hitler sym- pathizer, writer, master businessman, and the richest man in the world--J. Paul Getty was all these things and more. Now, in The Great Gettythe real Getty is revealed at last. Jean Paul Getty was, by 1957, the richest manin the world--and the richest man ever to payonly $500 or less a year in income taxes. By thetime Getty was 24, he had made his first mil-lion, become estranged from his very properparents, and gotten slapped with a paternitysuit. By 1930, he had married and divorcedthree different teenaged girls within fiveyears--only to marry twice more, one timeneglecting to divorce his previous wife first.After wresting control of the family trust fromhis deaf and aging toothier, Getty establishedhimself in the midst of the Depression as aninternational oilman--one of the first to seethe potential of Arab oil--and an internationalbon vivant. |
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