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A severed ear, the best opium in London, oil fountains and other facts about the legendary Getty family. Danny Boyle to direct TV series about horrific kidnapping of John Paul Getty III Jean Paul Getty Who

As stated in one famous television series, the rich cry too.

At the same time, the most serious troubles, as a rule, happen not to the billionaires themselves, but to their offspring. This misfortune also affected the family clan of oil magnate Jean Paul Getty. The grandson of a billionaire recognized as the richest man in the world, John Paul Getty III first became addicted to drugs, and then he was kidnapped by criminals. The release of the hostage has turned into an exciting crime story.

John Paul Getty III was born in 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But he spent most of his childhood in Italy - in Rome, where his father, also John Paul, represented the interests of the family oil corporation. In 1964, Paul's father divorced and married a little-known Dutch actress. Apparently tired of the harsh everyday life big business, after the divorce, John Paul Getty II hit hard. He completely abandoned all his affairs and, together with his new wife, began to live with a colony of hippies in Morocco, on the shore Atlantic Ocean. Sometimes the former businessman came to England to relax, where a luxurious house was purchased for this purpose.

Young Paul was sent by his father and stepmother to study at the elite English school St. George in Rome. Having completed it with difficulty, Paul did not go to university. He remained in Italy and led a bohemian life, since the available family capital allowed it. Among his close acquaintances were hippies, rock musicians, drug addicts, prostitutes, tramps and other dubious personalities. Therefore, when at 3 a.m. on July 10, 1973, Paul Getty was kidnapped in a square in Rome and taken to an unknown location, no one was particularly surprised.

Only the motives for the kidnapping of the billionaire's grandson remained a mystery. At first, many thought that this was all a talented staging, organized by Paul himself, in order to extract more money from his tight-fisted relatives. Then the police put forward a version that terrorists from the famous “Red Brigades” were involved in the kidnapping. However, no political statements were made by the brigadiers, and this version had to be abandoned.

Some journalists claimed that the kidnapping was organized by rivals of the family clan in order to force Paul Getty's grandfather to make secret concessions in the oil business. After all, he was successfully developing oil fields in Saudi Arabia and back in 1957 he was declared the richest man on Earth.

Kidnapping of a rich man's grandson

Soon, the kidnappers sent a note to Paul Getty's father and grandfather demanding a ransom of $17 million. Only in this case did they guarantee the safe return of the hostage. The father of the kidnapped person did not have that kind of money. And the head of the clan, Jean Paul Getty, who lived in England, responded to the proposal of the unknown bandits with a categorical refusal.

Speaking to reporters, Getty Sr. said that he has fourteen more grandchildren. If he pays the required amount to the criminals, his grandchildren will be kidnapped one by one, and he will be completely ruined.

A week later, an envelope arrived in the mail at the editorial office of a provincial Italian newspaper. It contained a lock of hair and a severed human ear. In the cover letter, the unknown criminals threatened to brutally kill the stolen teenager if they did not receive $3.2 million within ten days. Only after this did Getty Sr. agree to pay the ransom, but not in full, but in parts.

First, $2.2 million was transferred to the bandits, and then the rest of the amount. In the end, through skillful bargaining, Getty Sr. reduced the ransom amount to $2.9 million. It is also curious that he lent all the money necessary to save his grandson to his own son at four percent per annum. Having received the money, the bandits released young Paul. He was discovered in southern Italy, in an abandoned house, on December 15, 1973.

When a joyful Paul III called his grandfather in England to thank him for his release, he refused to answer the phone. And then he refused to meet with his grandson at all. As they say, the rich have their own quirks.

Mafia on a regional scale

While the Getty family clan was bargaining with the kidnappers and seeking the release of the hostage, the Italian police wasted no time either. Using operational channels, Italian detectives managed to identify and then arrest the gang that committed the daring kidnapping of the billionaire's grandson. To the great disappointment of the press, it was announced that the “kidnapping of the century” was organized by a small criminal group from the province of Calabria, located in southern Italy.

The police detained nine criminals, including one driver, one carpenter, one municipal hospital orderly and one salesman olive oil from Calabria. The gang was headed by two regional mafiosi, certain Girolamo Piromalli and Saverio Mammoliti. During court hearings All the circumstances of the daring abduction became clear. The Calabrian bandits were given a tip on a promising “client” by a drug addict who was hanging out with Paul Getty in Rome. The rest was a matter of technique.

John Paul Getty III - paralyzed and blind

A group of criminals arrived in Rome by car. Paul was tracked down, grabbed right on the street, injected with a heavy dose of sleeping pills and taken to a mountain village in Calabria, where he was kept in an abandoned house. Communication with the relatives of the kidnapped person and the receipt of ransom were carried out through dummies. However, at the trial it was possible to prove the guilt of only two criminals. The rest had to be released due to lack of evidence.

By the way, the police never found most of the ransom money. Two million dollars disappeared without a trace, and, some skeptics claimed, were used as attorney fees and as a bribe to the court. As for Paul Getty III himself, after his release from the hands of the bandits, he underwent long-term treatment, suffered plastic surgery to restore the ear that his kidnappers cut off. Then Paul got married and had a son, but psychological trauma, connected with the kidnapping, never released the “billionaire’s granddaughter.” He continued to abuse alcohol and drugs, already in 1981 this led to a stroke, which made the 25-year-old guy paralyzed, deaf and almost blind. Getty III died at the age of 54.

As stated in one famous television series, the rich cry too. At the same time, the most serious troubles, as a rule, happen not to the billionaires themselves, but to their offspring. This misfortune also affected the family clan of oil magnate Jean Paul Getty. The grandson of a billionaire recognized as the richest man in the world, John Paul Getty III first became addicted to drugs, and then he was kidnapped by criminals. The release of the hostage has turned into an exciting crime story.

John Paul Getty III was born in 1956 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But he spent most of his childhood in Italy - in Rome, where his father, also John Paul, represented the interests of the family oil corporation. In 1964, Paul's father divorced and married a little-known Dutch actress. Apparently, tired of the harsh everyday life of big business, after the divorce, John Paul Getty II hit the hardest. He completely abandoned all his affairs and, together with his new wife, began to live with a colony of hippies in Morocco, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Sometimes the former businessman came to England to relax, where a luxurious house was purchased for this purpose.

Some journalists claimed that the kidnapping was organized by rivals of the family clan in order to force Paul Getty's grandfather to make secret concessions in the oil business. After all, he successfully developed oil fields in Saudi Arabia and back in 1957 he was declared the richest man on Earth.

Kidnapping of a rich man's grandson

Mafia on a regional scale

Police detained nine criminals, including one driver, one carpenter, one municipal hospital orderly and one olive oil seller from Calabria. The gang was headed by two regional mafiosi, certain Girolamo Piromalli and Saverio Mammoliti. During the court hearings, all the circumstances of the daring abduction became clear. The Calabrian bandits were given a tip on a promising “client” by a drug addict who was hanging out with Paul Getty in Rome. The rest was a matter of technique.

John Paul Getty III - paralyzed and blind

By the way, the police never found most of the ransom money. Two million dollars disappeared without a trace, and, some skeptics claimed, were used as attorney fees and as a bribe to the court. As for Paul Getty III himself, after his release from the hands of the bandits, he underwent long treatment and underwent plastic surgery to restore the ear that his kidnappers cut off. Then Paul got married and had a son, but the psychological trauma associated with the kidnapping never left the “billionaire’s granddaughter.” He continued to abuse alcohol and drugs, already in 1981 this led to a stroke, which made the 25-year-old guy paralyzed, deaf and almost blind. Getty III died at the age of 54.

Ivan Kaspersky, 20 years old at the time of abduction in April 2011

In the spring of 2011, 61-year-old Muscovite Nikolai Savelyev showed his wife Lyudmila Forbes magazine with a list of the richest Russians - including programmer Evgeny Kaspersky, who developed a popular antivirus. Savelyev never developed anything, but he had a prison sentence for fraud behind him. Having seen the salaries of the Forbes heroes, the pensioner remembered his youth and decided to make money by kidnapping a millionaire’s child. The wife approved the idea. The Savelyevs turned to their 30-year-old son for help so that he could find information on the Internet about the children of rich people. Nikolai did not consider his parents’ idea an senile quirk. On the contrary, the man caught fire and even offered to share with three friends. The gang got down to business.

Initially, Evgeniy Kaspersky was not the target of criminals. The choice fell on the programmer because the information about his youngest son, 20-year-old Ivan, was the most complete and was in the public domain. Student Ivan Kaspersky on his page on the social network VKontakte indicated his home address, place of work and study - Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University, fourth year. The kidnappers just had to check the guy’s schedule and remember the victim’s face.

On April 19, 2011, Ivan was kidnapped near the Strogino metro station, near the office of his mother Natalya Kasperskaya, where the young man worked part-time. Ivan was pushed into a car, a mask was put on his head, he was taken to a rented cottage, his phone was taken away, he was locked in a bathhouse, and he was ordered to call his father and demand 3 million euros. The day of ransom was set for April 24 - at the same time, the Savelyevs and their son, who had come to collect the money, were detained. Three family associates were later arrested.

Ivan Kaspersky spent five days in captivity, surrounded by the care and attention of his captors. The defendants admitted that “they treated the victim politely, did not intimidate him, consoled him, fed him, gave him something to drink, and gave him books” (but did not remove the handcuffs). But, despite all the sensitivity and sincerity, father and son Savelyev and two of their accomplices received from 7 to 11 years in a maximum security colony. The fifth convict, intelligence officer Alexey Ustimchuk, served 4.5 years.

After Vanya’s release, first of all, he cleaned up his VKontakte profile and later changed his last name.

Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken

Alfred Heineken, 60 years old at the time of his abduction in the fall of 1983

A film was made about this story a couple of years ago with Anthony Hopkins in leading role. Everything that happens on the screen is pure truth. Freddie Heineken, owner of the famous Heineken brewery, founded in 1864 by his grandfather, was kidnapped along with his driver in the center of his native Amsterdam. The criminals (five young men) demanded 35 million Dutch guilders (about 16 million euros) from the Heineken family, a cosmic sum even today, but unthinkable for that time. The millionaire spent 20 days chained to the wall in a soundproof cell that his captors built in an abandoned hangar. Heineken was confident that he would not be killed or harmed. The entrepreneur not only remained calm, but also got on the gang leader’s nerves, provoking the criminal. But driver Eb Doderer's nerves quickly gave way. The man almost had a heart attack, which was also not part of the kidnappers’ plans. The kidnappers began to quarrel and panic. The perfect crime threatened to turn into a failure, but... it didn’t.

On the day of the ransom, the criminals successfully took the money and disappeared. Two fled to France, others lay low in Holland. As a result, all five were arrested and sentenced to terms ranging from 8 to 12 years. But nothing is still known about the fate of the money. The police found and returned to the Heineken family only 4 million out of 35. Whether the kidnappers managed to spend the rest of the ransom (and on what?!) or whether the bags of cash were hidden somewhere - the investigation was unable to find out. Heineken himself had a philosophical attitude towards the disappearance of 30 million, as well as his own kidnapping. Another 9.5 billion guilders in his account helped him keep calm.

After leaving prison, all gang members, except for the mentally unstable Franz Mayer, returned to crime. And after his release, Freddie Heineken spent another 6 years as chairman of the board of Heineken, turning the brand from a local one into a world-famous one. After his retirement, Heineken remained involved with the brewery until his death from pneumonia in 2002.

Kidnapping of William Randolph Hearst's granddaughter

Patty Hearst, 19 years old at the time of her abduction in 1974

Hearst was born into the family of a millionaire who owned silver deposits, but the media tycoon created his empire from other treasures: scandals, gossip and yellow news. Having bought a boring New York newspaper with a modest circulation with his parents' money, Hearst turned the publication into a hit. He made millions from crime, disasters, rumors, reports from the scene of a murder - with color illustrations! By the beginning of World War II, Hearst published many newspapers throughout the United States, owned radio stations, a film studio, and news agencies. The Hearst Corporation factory continually produced sensations for every taste, and one day, ironically, the Hearst family itself found itself at the center of a criminal scandal. Fortunately (or unfortunately), Mr. Hearst did not live to see this - he died in 1951. Several hundred million dollars of inheritance and management of the holding were divided among his 5 sons, including 36-year-old Randolph Hearst, the future tabloid hero.

In February 1974, Randolph Hearst's daughter, University of California student Patricia, was kidnapped by the radical left-wing terrorist group Symbionese Liberation Army. The girl was locked in a closet for two months; for the first few days, the gag was not removed from her mouth, the blindfold was not removed from her eyes, and she was not allowed to go to the toilet. The captive was beaten and raped. The purpose of the kidnapping was initially not ransom, but the exchange of the heiress for two members of the “Army” convicted of political murder. The authorities categorically refused to hand over the prisoners. Then the kidnappers made another demand to the Hearst family - to provide food assistance to every poor resident of California. Patricia's father immediately allocated two million dollars for food to the poor, but the humanitarian action in the suburbs of San Francisco turned into chaos, the needy were left with nothing, and the CAO refused to let Patricia go. On April 3, two months after the abduction, the terrorists presented an audio recording in which Patty Hearst announced joining the “Army.” The girl renounced her name, refused to return to her family and announced that, together with her “new friends,” she was beginning a “fight for peace.”

Over the next six months, Patty took part in robberies and murders as part of the group. The girl was arrested in September. Patti admitted that all this time she lived literally under the gun. In case of disobedience, they threatened her with cruel reprisals, constantly raped her, and she was ready to die every minute. The examination confirmed that Patricia has serious post-traumatic disorder. Therefore, when in March 1976 the court sentenced Patti to 7 years in prison for robbery, protests swept across the country - and three years later Hearst was released.

Immediately after her release, Patricia Hurst married police officer Bernard Lee Shaw, whom she met during the investigation, and lived with her husband until his death in 2013. They had two daughters, one of whom, Lydia Hearst, is a model.

Patricia (now 64 years old) released an autobiography, took up charity work, and played in several films. A film about Patty Hurts is being prepared for release in 2019, in which Elle Fanning will play the main role.

Kidnapping of Paul Getty's grandson

John Paul Getty II, 16 years old at the time of his abduction in July 1973

American industrialist Paul Getty earned his first million at age 24, and 15 years later he built his own “black gold” empire. On the one hand, this is not surprising. Paul Getty's father was oil tycoon and did not skimp on his son’s education. However, when it came to business, Getty Sr., with difficulty and at interest, allocated the minimum starting capital to the heir. Paul Getty learned his lesson: money is expensive, it doesn’t come easily, and if you waste it, it tends to disappear. The talented son managed to surpass his father - both in business and in the art of saving.

In 1966, 74-year-old oilman Paul Getty, with a fortune of $1.2 billion, became the richest man on earth. In terms of modern exchange rates, this amount is approximately nine billion dollars. Modestly, in the middle of the last century, no one had that kind of money - except for Paul Getty, who more than anything else in the world did not like to spend his money - neither on himself nor on loved ones, including his own children. Even if it was about their health and life.

In 1973, 80-year-old Getty's net worth was $6 billion. The tycoon had 5 short marriages, 4 of which broke up after the birth of children. Babies required so much attention - and so much expense! But at the same time, Paul Getty was happy to provide his adult heirs with the opportunity to earn money and increase family capital.

John Paul Getty Jr., born in his fourth marriage, ran the Italian subsidiary of the family's Getty Oil company, but lost his father's trust when he became a hippie in the '60s. John Paul Getty Jr. went traveling with his second wife, an actress, while his son from his first marriage, John Paul Getty III, remained to live in Rome with his mother. Paul Getty was not interested in either his hippie son or his teenage grandson, and he did not count on his grandfather's inheritance. The 16-year-old grandson of a billionaire painted paintings for sale, wove baubles, experimented with substances and was happy with life, until on the night of July 10, unknown people in the city square put a bag over his head and took him to the mountains in southern Italy. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of $17 million, but Paul Getty was not going to pay. He was sure that the slacker grandson had staged his kidnapping in order to brazenly extort money.

A month passed, the “joke” dragged on, but the billionaire refused to ransom his grandson. Even if this is all for real, the guy himself is to blame, Paul Getty was sure. Why was this drug addict wandering the streets at night? “I have 14 grandchildren, and if I pay a penny today, tomorrow I will have 14 kidnapped grandchildren,” Getty told authorities and reporters.

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Jean Paul Getty was known throughout his life as one of the stingiest rich men in the world. By all accounts, the desire to show off one's own wealth was never the goal of an entrepreneur. He created his empire and billion-dollar capital practically from scratch and had no intention of sharing it with anyone.

His villas and mansions were works of art, but they were acquired at a time when their prices were greatly reduced. They say that even his move to separate houses from the luxury rooms that he preferred in his youth was due to the fact that the cost of a house seemed lower to him than paying for hotels. By the way, Getty washed his own clothes every day, saving money.

Other Getty eccentricities include savings when sending mail. He usually wrote answers to letters in the same margins and sent them in the same envelopes if there was an opportunity to use them again.

It is worth mentioning the entrepreneur’s numerous novels. What he truly loved, besides money, from adolescence to old age, was women. It would be more correct to say, not women, but sex, considering it the key to youth and even immortality of the soul. He could call paid priestesses of love from the Place Pigalle to his Paris office, and could arrange a real hunt for some social beauty, seducing her with his restraint and encyclopedic erudition. During his life, he was married five times and had, by all accounts, more than a hundred affairs - not counting fleeting interests and one-night stands.

Getty was cool about charity. He himself claimed that he would give 99.5% of his fortune if he was sure that it would solve the problem of poverty. In his opinion, the best charity organisations they simply teach people to passively receive money.

At 3 a.m. on July 10, 1973, Paul Getty was caught sad news: His grandson John Paul Getty III was kidnapped in Piazza Farnese in Rome. The grandson was blindfolded and taken to a mountain refuge in Calabria. The kidnappers sent a ransom note demanding $17 million in exchange for his safe return. After reading the note, some family members suspected that the kidnapping was staged by Paul himself and was the prank of a rebellious teenager, since he had often joked that the only way to extract money from his tight-fisted grandfather was by arranging his own kidnapping. The kidnappers soon sent a second ransom message, which was delayed due to a strike by Italian postal workers. Paul's father, who did not have that kind of money, asked his father, Jean Paul Getty, for it. For Getty, whose fortune at the time reached $4 billion, this was not much money, but he had no intention of paying. He was guided, in his opinion, by rational convictions. There is a widespread claim by an entrepreneur that he has fourteen grandchildren and if he pays a ransom for one, they will begin to kidnap the rest.

The daily newspaper then received an envelope containing a lock of hair and part of an ear, as well as written threats to permanently mutilate the grandson unless the extortionists received $3.2 million within ten days.

Getty then agreed to pay the ransom, but only $2.2 million because that was the maximum tax-free amount. He lent the missing money to save his grandson to his son at 4 percent per annum. As a result, the kidnappers received approximately $2.9 million, and Paul was found alive in southern Italy after a ransom was paid.

Police later detained nine kidnappers: a carpenter, an orderly, a former criminal and an olive oil salesman from Calabria, as well as several high-ranking members of the local mafia group. Two of the gang were convicted and sent to prison, the rest - including mafiosi - were released due to lack of evidence. Most of the ransom money has disappeared.

The grandson never came to his senses and subsequently suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction. Eight years after his abduction, he became blind, speechless, and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

The kidnapping and subsequent ransom of John Paul Getty III became one of the most notorious and famous kidnappings in history, along with the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.

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To understand the story of Paul Getty's kidnapping, you need to know something about his family. Paul, also known as John Paul Getty III, was the grandson of Jean Paul Getty, the man who founded the Getty Oil Company in the 1940s and became extremely wealthy. He worked hard to get his money and even studied Arabic to strengthen its position in the Middle East. Despite his enormous wealth, he was a very modest person in life, and he was very careful when it came to giving money to his children and grandchildren.

He was such a curmudgeon that his fifth wife, Teddy Getty Gaston, described in her 2013 memoir how upset she was. ex-husband due to the fact that he spent too much on the treatment of his six-year-old son Timmy, who had a brain tumor and was blind. When Timmy died in 1958, his father did not attend the funeral.

Not surprisingly, Getty refused to pay ransom for Paul after his abduction. But does this mean that money was more important to him than the call of blood?

Paul's father was a drug addict, and his stepmother died of a heroin overdose.

John Paul "Eugene" Getty Jr. and wife Gail Harris had four sons. Their son Paul was born in 1956, and when he was eight years old, his parents divorced. Eugene moved to Rome and married the Dutch actress Talita Paul. Both were addicted to drugs, and in 1972 Talita died of a heroin overdose. Police believe John Paul Getty Jr. was partly responsible for his wife's death, but no charges were brought against him.

Paul Jr. was expelled from school and lived a free life in Rome

Sixteen-year-old Paul lived in Rome not far from his father, who managed the Italian branch family business, by Getty Oil Italiana. After Paul was expelled from private school, he lived independently and enjoyed a carefree teenage life without any obligations. Paul attended clubs and took part in political demonstrations. He made money by acting as an extra and selling jewelry and paintings.

He was kidnapped at age 16 and his captors demanded a multimillion-dollar ransom

On the night of his abduction, July 10, 1973, Paul was reported to be walking around Piazza Navona with a Belgian dancer. Italian mafiosi kidnapped Paul, dragging him into the back of a van, and then took him 500 kilometers from the capital, to the mountainous Calabria. The kidnappers contacted Paul's family and demanded a ransom of $17 million.

Paul's family thought he had made up the kidnapping story to get money.

Although kidnappings were not at all unusual in Italy at the time, there were indeed doubts at first that Paul had been kidnapped. People believed that he did it himself in order to get money from his grandfather, who broke up with his son. Paul was even known to make jokes about his kidnapping.

As a result, both the police and Paul's friends did not take the report of the kidnapping seriously. But Paul wrote a letter to his mother, begging her for help. It was published in TIME on July 30, 1973:

“Dear mother, I fell into the hands of kidnappers. Don't let them kill me! Make sure the police don't interfere. You absolutely should not take this as a joke... Do not make my kidnapping public.”

His grandfather refused to pay the ransom because he didn't want to set a precedent

It is common knowledge that Paul's grandfather was very careful with his money. Even though he was the richest man in the world, he did not like to waste his fortune. He was so “frugal” that it was said that in his London home, guests had to use a payphone specially installed for this purpose. His grandfather stopped supporting his son J. Paul Getty Jr. and daughter-in-law Gail Harris, so Paul's parents could not pay the ransom. They begged the head of the family for help, but he did not want to pay the kidnappers because he was afraid to create a precedent that could put all the other family members in danger. He told the newspapers: “If I pay even one cent now, I will have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.”

The kidnappers cut off Paul's ear, after which the family finally paid a ransom for him

Gail, Paul's mother, was so outraged by her ex-father-in-law that she publicly shamed him to make him pay. After about four months, Paul's captors began to become restless. In November 1973, they sent a package with terrible contents to a Roman newspaper - a clump of bloody hair and a severed ear. The kidnappers wrote:

“This is Paul's first ear. If within 10 days the family still thinks this is a joke, we will send a second ear. In other words, we will send it to you in small pieces."

The kidnappers demanded $3.2 million, but the family patriarch reduced the price to $2.89 million. J. Paul Getty paid $2.2 million, which was tax-exempt; his son had to pay the rest. He borrowed this money from his father - at 4% per annum.

Exhausted and exhausted, Paul was released from captivity

On December 15, 1973, five months after his abduction, Paul was finally released. He stood in the rain on an Italian motorway for several hours before being picked up by a truck driver. Paul explained that he had been kidnapped and that he needed to call his mother. When the police arrived, Paul identified himself and said that the kidnappers had blindfolded him and transported him from place to place in different areas of Calabria several times over these months. It is clear that he was exhausted and hungry. Although he was generally unharmed (except for a missing ear), Paul suffered deep emotional and mental shock.

The police eventually tracked down the thieves.

To catch Paul's kidnappers, former American intelligence agent Fletcher Chase was entrusted with handing over the bags of lyres. Chase and a police officer were driving along a road outside Naples when the kidnappers' car pulled alongside them. The detectives handed them the ransom on the way, but were able to clearly see and remember the gang members. Upon returning to Rome, they were able to identify the criminals, and a month later they were detained. Paul returned to Italy to conduct an identification parade. A total of nine suspects were arrested, but only two were convicted.

After his release, Paul became addicted to drugs and alcohol

About a year after his release, 18-year-old Paul married 24-year-old Gisele Sacher, who was a photographer from Germany. Paul tried to get his life back on track and studied at Pepperdine University for one semester. He had two children, daughter Anna and son Balthazar, who became famous actor. But the consequences of the kidnapping made themselves felt. After some time, Paul and his family moved to New York, where he began to communicate with Andy Warhol and other artists. Soon he began to actively abuse drugs and alcohol.

Paul's grandfather didn't leave him a cent after his death.

When his grandfather passed away in 1976, Paul received nothing (his father only received $500). The family patriarch donated much of his fortune to charities and non-profit organizations such as the Getty Museum. Although he did not favor many members of his family, he was always generous towards women. The will included 11 women, including his wife, who was given a lifetime pension of $55,000 a year, a London widow, and a decorator, who each received a substantial stake in Getty.

Paul abused drugs and was wheelchair bound. He sued his father over medical bills

In 1981, after taking Valium, methadone and alcohol, Paul nearly died from an overdose. The consequences of the affect were devastating. Paul suffered a stroke and almost completely lost his speech and vision. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Paul was looked after by his mother, but this was not enough. Finding himself in dire financial straits, Paul sued his father, demanding $28,000 a month to pay for his medical expenses. He died in 2011 at the age of 54.

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