Jean Paul Getty
(1892-1976)
American industrialist and collector
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Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976), known widely as J. Paul Getty, was an American-born British petrol-industrialist, and the patriarch of the Getty family. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American, while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records named him as the world's richest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approx. $7.4 billion in 2019). At his death, he was worth more than $6 billion (approximately $21 billion in 2019). A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the concurrent gross national product.
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15 December 1892 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
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| Died |
6 June 1976 (aged 83) Sutton Place near Guildford, Surrey, England
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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Nats Getty · Great-granddaughter · 1992- · American heir, socialite, designer, and LGBTQ rights activist
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