John Paul Getty III’s recent death brings to a close a tragic chapter in the wealthy family’s decades-long drama of strife and eccentricity. Anthony Haden-Guest reports on their woe.

J. Paul Getty, oil air and the late grandfather of John Gilbert Getty. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Gigi Gaston, whose mother was the fifth wife of the late oil tycoon also mourned John’s death.

J. Paul Getty III was kidnapped in Italy in 1973. The kidnappers severed his ear and sent it to Getty's father and grandfather as proof. His grandfather then paid $2.2 million. Getty was ...

Additionally, prior to Andrew's death, John's cousin, J. Paul Getty III, also a former heir to the oil tycoon, died in 2011 at the age of 54. His cause of death was a stroke.

(CBS/AP) J. Paul Getty III, the troubled grandson of one of the world's richest men, who lost an ear in a grisly kidnapping as a teenager and suffered a devastating stroke as a young man, has died ...

Andrew Getty, grandson of J. Paul Getty, appears to have died of natural causes, a coroner’s preliminary assessment says.

J. Paul Getty died in 1976 at 83. An obsessive art collector, he left the vast majority of his fortune to the Los Angeles art museum that bears his name. But many years prior, ...

Getty — who was the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty — had been discovered unresponsive in November in a San Antonio hotel room. In 2015, Getty’s brother, Andrew Getty, died from an ...

John Gilbert Getty died on Nov. 20 at age 52 ... The cause of death for John Gilbert Getty, the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, has been revealed two months after his death at the age of 52.

Andrew Getty, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty and an heir to his fortune, died of an intestinal hemorrhage and acute methamphetamine intoxication, among other factors, the Los Angeles County ...

HOLLYWOOD HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Andrew Getty, a grandson of J. Paul Getty, appears to have died of natural causes or from an accident, a coroner's official said Tuesday. Getty was found shortly ...

Additionally, prior to Andrew's death, John's cousin, J. Paul Getty III, also a former heir to the oil tycoon, died in 2011 at the age of 54. His cause of death was a stroke.