The family that once held the largest private fortune in America has suffered yet another bizarre and tragic misfortune with the death of Andrew Rork Getty, 47, who was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Tuesday. The grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty was discovered "halfway in the bathroom in the hallway," L.A. coroner Ed Winter tells People. "He was partially clothed and it looked like he was trying to get to the bathroom." Winter says Andrew had told his assistant he was feeling ill several days earlier, and believes the cause of death was "probably gastrointestinal bleeding inside.
- 4/2/2015
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
The family that once held the largest private fortune in America has suffered yet another bizarre and tragic misfortune with the death of Andrew Rork Getty, 47, who was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Tuesday. The grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty was discovered "halfway in the bathroom in the hallway," L.A. coroner Ed Winter tells People. "He was partially clothed and it looked like he was trying to get to the bathroom." Winter says Andrew had told his assistant he was feeling ill several days earlier, and believes the cause of death was "probably gastrointestinal bleeding inside.
- 4/2/2015
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
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.
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 of caregivers, writes finis to a story as terrible as it is gripping. It is in its essentials a tale of the family lives of the hugely rich so we might as well begin at a peculiarly high or low point which is with his kidnapping at the age of 16 by a gang of mobsters at 3 a.m. on July 10, 1973 on Rome's Piazza Farnese.
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Two days later Gail Getty received a ransom demand for $17 million.
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 of caregivers, writes finis to a story as terrible as it is gripping. It is in its essentials a tale of the family lives of the hugely rich so we might as well begin at a peculiarly high or low point which is with his kidnapping at the age of 16 by a gang of mobsters at 3 a.m. on July 10, 1973 on Rome's Piazza Farnese.
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Two days later Gail Getty received a ransom demand for $17 million.
- 2/11/2011
- by Anthony Haden-Guest
- The Daily Beast
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