A Los Angeles judge ordered the Twitter personality and journalist Yashar Ali to transfer his future earnings to a judgment creditor until his $232,769 debt to Ariadne Getty, granddaughter of oil ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day, Nov. 8, in 1973, the ear belonging to the kidnapped grandson of an American-born billionaire was delivered to an Italian newspaper with a ransom note asking for $3.2 million. Jean Paul ...

Posed in simple form in Manhattan last week was a basic problem of modern capitalism—the divorce of ownership from control. While the management of the $187,500,000 Tide Water Associated Oil Co.

Legendary US oilman Jean Paul Getty was a wildcatter in Texas. However, after the 1929 Wall Street crash he worked out that it was cheaper to buy oil in the ground that had already been found (and was ...

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 ...

Some call it the Getty Curse. With a vast fortune built on oil wealth, the Getty family seemed to have it all. But their history has also been one of tragedy, including kidnapping, drug addiction and ...

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