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Gordon Getty is worth a couple of billion, in his 80s, and has two families. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-2nd-getty-family-an-open-secret-20150331-story.html
1 posted on 12/22/2015 5:54:37 AM PST by RummyChick
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Glad I’m not rich. When I go, there won’t be much of an estate to fight over.


2 posted on 12/22/2015 6:03:16 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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Sounds like Andrew Getty was a total idiot.


3 posted on 12/22/2015 6:04:18 AM PST by boycott (--)
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WIKI Gordon Getty was raised in San Francisco, California, attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory, University of San Francisco and earned a B.A. in music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He married Ann Gilbert in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Christmas Day, 1964. He has seven children: four sons with his wife, Ann Gilbert Getty, and three daughters with his longtime partner, Cynthia Beck.

He joined the oil business to please his father; however, he eventually sold the family’s Getty Oil to Texaco in 1986 for US$10 billion. In 1983, Forbes magazine ranked him the richest person in America with a net worth a little over $2 billion.[5] His current net worth is cited as US$2 billion, making him the 212th richest person in the United States.

Getty is one of the nation’s leading venture capitalists and philanthropists. In 2002, he donated US$3 million to the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, a charitable trust. Though a Republican, he is a major fundraiser for local and national Democratic Party candidates, and has contributed to the campaigns of Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, and John Kerry.


7 posted on 12/22/2015 6:19:19 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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How much did he hate his son to finance his destruction? What horrible parenting.


9 posted on 12/22/2015 6:26:24 AM PST by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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Gordon has been mentally instable for many, many years. I recall his dad had to pay a ransom of the offshore Neutral Zone mineral concession to get him out of a Saudi jail when he was the Managing Director for Getty in the ‘60s.

That concession contained part of the largest offshore oil field ever, so that was a big ransom paid.


14 posted on 12/22/2015 7:01:28 AM PST by doldrumsforgop
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I wonder how he feels knowing his kid probably spent all that money on meth???


18 posted on 12/22/2015 7:59:48 AM PST by Boogieman
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Guess two billion dollars just doesn’t go as far as it used to do.


20 posted on 12/22/2015 9:16:19 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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This is why children should not die before their parents


21 posted on 12/22/2015 5:12:32 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
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