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Author Fox, Charles, 1942-2012.

Title Uncommon youth : the gilded life and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III / by Charles Fox.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2013]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY GETTY    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B GETTY    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  364.154 FOX    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO GETTY    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-GETTY FOX    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B GETTY, JP    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B GETTY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 289 pages ; 25 cm
Summary J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet-set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, from nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping defines the decade--and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions. Uncommon Youth is richly reported, and includes many interviews with Getty himself conducted from the late 1970s to the early 2000s that raise new questions about the case. How much did he acquiesce to the kidnappers? Why wouldn't his rich-as-Croesus grandfather pay the ransom, which began at the equivalent of $550,000 in lire and bulged to $3.6 million as the months dragged on? -- p. [2] of jacket.
Subject Getty, Paul, 1956-2011 -- Kidnapping, 1973.
Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976 -- Family.
Kidnapping -- Italy -- Case studies.
Children of the rich -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9781250018212 hardcover
1250018218 hardcover
9781250018229 (e-book)
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