Of all prodigious oilmen not the least is J. (for Jean) Paul Getty of Los Angeles. He was born in Minneapolis. His father George was of Scottish descent, a man who began life with little money and ...

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 ...

His first big break in the oil business occurred in 1915, when he purchased an interest in an oil lease on a farm south of Tulsa, Oklahoma for $500. His contemporaries thought him foolish, but 3 days ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Balthazar Getty (born January 22, 1975) is an American film actor and member of the band Ringside. His great grandfather was Jean Paul Getty, his grandfather Sir ...

In 1973, Jean Paul Getty found out from his son, J. Paul Getty Jr., that grandson J. Paul III had just been kidnapped by Italian gangsters and he couldn’t come up with the ransom money. The captors, ...

An heir to the Getty oil fortune was found dead Tuesday in his Los Angeles home. The death is still under investigation but appears to be due to natural causes or an accident, according to reports.

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 ...