The Houston jury deliberated over three days and returned a verdict that awarded Pennzoil $10.53 billion in damages — the ...

Few episodes in the world of finance offer as much high drama as the Getty Oil takeover. It was the largest takeover in history, and it involved major players like American financier T. Boone Pickens, ...

The Getty family is known for its immense wealth but also its misfortune. J. Paul Getty made his fortune in the oil industry, beginning work in Oklahoma oil fields with his father, according to the ...

There’s walking a mile in another’s shoes, and then there’s exchanging Los Angeles mansions. Brad Pitt, 59, and Aileen Getty, the 65-year-old philanthropist granddaughter of the late oil tycoon J.

Wall Street buzzed with rumors last week that Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, 65, the richest American (TIME, March 4), would soon unite the three major oil companies that he controls. Together the ...

Ivy Getty is the great-granddaughter of American oil tycoon and industrialist Jean Paul Getty. She is also an heiress to the family's vast fortune, once valued at $5.4 billion. In 2020, she married ...