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Sir John Paul Getty ( September 7, 1932 - April 17, 2003) was a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book-collector. He was the son of Jean Paul Getty, Sr. ( 1892- 1976), one of the richest men in the world, and of his wife Anne Rork. The family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty . At birth he was given the name Eugene Paul Getty, but in later life he adopted, and was better known by, the names Paul Getty, John Paul Getty and Jean Paul Getty, Jr.His father expected him to prove himself: his first job was pumping gas for $100 a month. He attended a Jesuit high school and the University of San Francisco, but he did not graduate from college. He was drafted into the U.S. Army to serve in Korea.
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In 1956 he married Gail Harris , by whom he had four children: J. Paul (born 1956), Aileen (born 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t), Mark (born 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23), and Ariadne (born 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e). In 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac he took control of Getty Oil's RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman division, and became addicted to both alcoholIn general usage, alcohol (from Arabic al-khwl , or al-ghawl ) refers almost always to ethanol, also known as grain alcohol and often to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage . This sense underlies the term alcoholism ( addiction to a and heroinHeroin or diamorphine ( INN) (colloquially referred to as junk, babania, horse, brown, smack, black tar, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, etc is an alkaloid opioid. Heroin is the 3,6- diacetyl derivative of morphine (hence diacetylmorphine and is synthes. He was a registered heroin addict in Britain for years, and drug use ended his first marriage (they divorced in 1964).
His second marriage, on December 10, 1966, was to Talitha Pol , the daughter of painter William Pol and step-granddaughter of painter Augustus John. She died of a drug overdose on July 14, 1971. This marriage produced one son, Tara Gabriel Galaxy Gramophone Getty (born 1968). He became reclusive following the death of Talitha, leaving Italy and taking up residence in Chelsea in 1972.
