Jean Paul Getty III (born 4 November 1956) was the first of four children of Paul Getty and Gail Harris. He is the grandson of oil billionaire Jean Paul Getty, and the father of actor Balthazar Getty.
Getty spent most of his childhood in Rome, Italy, as his father was the head of the Italian section of his family's oil business. His parents divorced, and his father spent much time in England and Morocco during the 1960s.
At the beginning of 1971 ...
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Jean Paul Getty III (born 4 November 1956) was the first of four children of Paul Getty and Gail Harris. He is the grandson of oil billionaire Jean Paul Getty, and the father of actor Balthazar Getty.
Getty spent most of his childhood in Rome, Italy, as his father was the head of the Italian section of his family's oil business. His parents divorced, and his father spent much time in England and Morocco during the 1960s.
At the beginning of 1971 Paul was expelled from St. George's English School (later St George's British International School). When he was 16, after his father had moved to England permanently, on 10 July 1973 in Rome, he was kidnapped and a ransom of $17 million was demanded in a note for his safe return. As Paul III was so rebellious, when the first ransom message arrived, some of the family suspected a ploy by the teenager to extract money from his grandfather. A second demand was delayed by an Italian postal strike.Jean Paul Getty II asked his father for the money,...
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