On July 10, 1973, J. Paul Getty's 16-year-old grandson, John Paul Getty III, was kidnapped and held for a ransom his grandfather refused to pay. His many months in captivity were gruesome ones.

The 1973 abduction of billionaire oil heir, John Paul Getty III, had both these elements – plus Italian mobsters, a postmarked severed ear and wild rumors about the 16-year-old’s culpability.

The death on February 5 of John Paul Getty III at Wormsley, his estate in the English county of Buckinghamshire, where he had long been watched over by his mother, Gail, and a round-the-clock team ...

No, it was incredulity at J Paul Getty’s refusal to pay the ransom when 16-year-old John Paul Getty III was abducted by the Roman Mafia in 1973. In the end he was held for five months and only ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The story of John Paul Getty III, whose relatives founded Getty Oil, and, later, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Getty ...

John Paul Getty III "squandered his genealogical inheritance," said journalist A. Craig Copetas. "The Gettys were the most dysfunctional family in many ways. Paul was a lost child." When the ...

LONDON — John Paul Getty Jr., heir to an American oil fortune who traveled a tormented path from 1960s hippie excess and personal tragedy to become a contented patron of the British cultural ...

If you thought what happened to 16-year-old John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott’s new movie “All the Money in the World” was bad, the aftermath of his 1973 kidnapping was not much better.

For five long months, John Paul Getty III was held captive by criminals loosely linked to the Italian mafia. His ordeal was traumatizing, culminating in his right ear being cut off and sent to a ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. John Gilbert Getty, the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, has died. He was 52. His family confirmed the musician's passing on Monday. The Getty heir ...

When the grandson of the richest man in the world was snatched off the streets of Rome in 1973, the most shocking aspect about John Paul Getty III’s ordeal was that the person with the power to ...

John Gilbert Getty, the grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, has died. He was 52. John, a musician, died on Friday in San Antonio, Texas. His family confirmed his death in a statement released ...