Kidnapped, mutilated and unloved by miserly tycoon: the tragic life of J Paul Getty III is over

Updated November 9 2012 - 6:46pm, first published February 8 2011 - 5:12am
John Paul Getty III ... his body mutilated by kidnappers then devastated by a stroke.
John Paul Getty III ... his body mutilated by kidnappers then devastated by a stroke.
Flashback to 1973 ... a miserable upbringing.
Flashback to 1973 ... a miserable upbringing.
Kidnapped, mutilated and unloved by miserly tycoon: the tragic life of J Paul Getty III is over
Kidnapped, mutilated and unloved by miserly tycoon: the tragic life of J Paul Getty III is over

J. Paul Getty III, a scion of the Getty oil dynasty whose tragedies - mutilation by kidnappers in the early 1970s and an incapacitating, drug-induced stroke in the 1980s - brought into high relief the dysfunctional relations that beset his famously wealthy family, has died in Buckinghamshire, England. He was 54.

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